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Pakistan’s own Khan Academy
Currently, the project is being scaled up to over 800 high schools in Punjab
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A case for reciprocity!
The fruits thus far of the myriad CBMs on and off the bilateral high table have all been reaped by Indian interests
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Agony of growing pains
Imran Khan is one change agent who will never allow himself to be coopted by the system
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Call for education reforms
The old school model of higher education needs to go
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Party manifestos and SDGs
PTI and its allies carry the heaviest burden of responsibility because of their majority at the Centre
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Could China replace the IMF?
Imran Khan singled out growing debt as one of Pakistan’s fundamental economic challenges
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Re-inventing the wheel, again
Pakistan has not yet decided on how to finance the immediate financing gap
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Lingering health perils
The country stands in a dismal state in terms of human development
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Caught unawares?
Nearly all federal secretaries have been shuffled around, except for the finance secretary
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PTI and vested interests of electables?
Dr Ishrat Hussain did not pay enough attention to how donor-endorsed policies like structural adjustment
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Humanising America’s hawks
Bush appeared on Kimmel’s show as part of a promotional tour for his book titled Portraits of Courage
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Madina and Islamic economics
The economy of Madina was essentially a trading economy. Capitalism, on the other hand, is a financial economy
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Social sector policy and Naya Pakistan
One sector that has been badly hit by poor policies in the past is the social sector
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Overseas voters and failed I-voting system
The 22nd Prime Minister of the country took oath in the official swearing-in ceremony this month
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The quicksands of Punjab
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s first challenge has arrived and it is in Punjab
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Mired between law and ‘religion’
Robert Mueller is the Special Counsel investigating whether anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians
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Pakistan in need of diaspora engagement
The study of global migration governance has brought about a paradigm shift
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Entangled priorities
There is much talk, everywhere, in Pakistan about the priorities of reforming Pakistan
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Taking charge of foreign policy
Imran Khan would like to focus primarily on domestic challenges with economy and political stability as his priority
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Reforms that refuse to arrive
ECP has always conducted elections with deficiencies, delays and discrepancies
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Deflating the research enterprise
The national balance sheet looks grim, and is in need of sustainable sources of revenue
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CPEC and the new government
Mike Pompeo has said that IMF funds should not be used to pay off Chinese lender
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The failing Western media
From clear-cut disparagement to open fan boy-ism, Khan draws intense reactions
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All the President’s men
Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen's stories shook Donald Trump's government
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Violence in schools
The use of corporal punishment to ‘discipline’ children is deeply entrenched in tradition and societal attitudes
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Freeing the airwaves
This is good news but for this initiative to take some positive shape, certain steps would have to be taken
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Easing of Pak-India trade tensions
South Asia remains the only world region that does not have a working arrangement among its nations
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The ‘Pakistan first’ approach
Khan told the Foreign Office that Pakistan’s national interests must be kept supreme in dealing with other countries
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Foreign policy: a way forward for Khan government
PTI government’s foreign policy must be extremely dynamic to bring economic stability
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Working for women empowerment
PM Imran's speech to the nation was far less impressive than his first speech that was delivered after the election
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A state of nothing
The sacrifice of giving up First Class travel only to opt for rigours of Business Class is nothing
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Of horse-trading and sundries!
One ‘issue’ that invariably crops up during an election season in this blessed land is ‘horse-trading’
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Illegal migration in India
BJP in India is well-entrenched in six of the seven northeastern states,
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Social entrepreneurs and Pakistan
Around 29 per cent of our population is now between the ages of 15-29 years
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To err is ECP: putting democracy on trial
The Rs21 billion elections attracted a lot of skepticism
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PTI should tread slowly
The PTI government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan has come in promising change
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The first move
Few of his close companions don’t have a completely clean slate, this will definitely test Imran's impartiality
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No ceasefire in Afghanistan
The Taliban had made their point and there was to be no ceasefire
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Measures to strengthen the economy
Most of the previous governments in Pakistan have tried to attract foreign investment
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Future of largest minority in Naya Pakistan
Minority is named as per unique challenges that its members face: ‘crippled’
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The making of ‘new’ Pakistan
The ‘new’ is synonymous with broad and deep reforms in critical areas of governance
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Lack of informed opinion on IMET decision
US decision to suspend the IMET Programme to Pakistan military is not a new phenomenon
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The good, the bad and the ugly
Good leaders practise what they preach and Khan is doing just that by following through on a promise
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Ignorance and prejudice: learning from Kofi Annan
As the United Nation’s seventh Secretary General, the first black African to rise to this honourable position
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The promise of civil service reforms
Pakistan is a country with brightest civil servants and weakest governance
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50 years of saving lives
The British Journal Lancet publishes a study conducted in what was then East Pakistan
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Why terror isn’t subsiding in Afghanistan?
It has become a typical South Asian dilemma that is getting harder to navigate
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Committed to ‘sham’ democracy
Ironically, successive civilian governments failed to deliver on public goods
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Justice for Amal
We are told that Amal died from a bullet fired by the police
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Pakistan and Turkey: case studies of economies in stress
With the elections of July 2018, Pakistan has moved towards stability while Turkey looks uncertain













































