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Palijo saeen
Politician Rasool Bakhsh Palijo breathed his last on June 7th 2018
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Of activism and resistance
For the past two decades, we have seen a steady rise in collaborations between NGOs and multinationals
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Democracy’s great fall
Quality of governance in both authoritarian and democratic rules always remained a subject of make-believe
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Nexus of media and political agenda
In broad terms media agenda have a great role in setting the public agenda
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The Tayyaba judgment
One of the most important judgments for the protection of children in Pakistan very quickly slid down the news agenda
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Hope and despair
Afghan blast, rising fuel prices in Pakistan invokes despair
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The critical 2018 elections
Such an election will mark new alignments of social and political forces
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Disrupting madness
MIT has launched the world’s first artificial intelligence-powered psychopath called ‘Norman’
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Are Pakistan-US relations on the mend?
Pakistan views US unilateralism with frustration, yet it would be a willing partner
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Energy sector audit by caretakers
Pakistan’s energy crisis stands tall to see off yet another government
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A model of inefficiency
Khadija’s case shows that nobody has more influence on cases than the elected members of the numerous Bar Associations
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The ‘Indo-Pacific’ and Pakistan
Chronology of events demonstrates China has been re-active rather than preemptive to safeguard its interest
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Case for smaller provinces
Punjab claims 51 per cent of Pakistan’s population
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The underbelly of celebrations
Fundamentally, there is nothing wrong with an Eid party or an Iftar get-together
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Plastic pollution in Pakistan
Since 1967, global plastic production has increased from two million tonnes to 380 million tonnes
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RIP Anthony Bourdain
Bourdain did what most journalists reporting for the Western media in the region could not do
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Trump’s challenge to the system of global commerce
Washington has brought the world to the edge of a trade war
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Understanding the value of dissent
Using dissent and self-criticism to your advantage is an art that many developed states have now mastered
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New provinces: rhetoric to reality
Framers of the Constitution stalled avenues for bifurcating existing federating units
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Economic spectre
PML-N govt has encumbered the nation with external debt now in excess of $90 billion
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The sin of silence
With time, the word family planning was taken out of our national dialogue
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PTI’s tickets to victory?
Today when PTI wakes up in the morning and looks in the mirror, it sees PML-N and PPP staring back
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Gains in war on malnutrition
Malnutrition is a global issue but it has been tackled successfully in certain parts of the world
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How to steal an election
In elections where autocrats have rigged polls, the contest is rigged from the start
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Water woes: time to act now
Once a water-affluent country, Pakistan is now in the midst of a severe water crisis
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Putting a garland on a rapist is bad politics
Political parties are recognising that it is best to listen to social media backlash against Bandial’s nomination
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Looking deeper into our contradictions
These are simply the symptoms of a bigger problem
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Decoding any election delays
The census of Karachi has already been challenged by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
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Inequality, polarisation and tribalism
This will help lessen the acuteness of inequalities between poor and rich nations
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Trump’s trade war
'Everybody loses in a protracted trade war'
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Nobel prize for Trump?
When Trump broached the subject of peace between the two Koreas his audience erupted into chants of ‘Nobel, Nobel’
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Is the ultimate civilian coup possible in Pakistan?
The PML-N is ready to contest elections on the slogan of people's supremacy over military
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Dengue pays a visit
Dengue virus treatment at Bahawalpur VIctoria Hospital
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Escalating dangers of Indian missiles
India is constantly arraying a variety of ballistic missiles in the region of three nuclear-weapons states
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Transition to democracy — at last
Democracy is an evolving system, self-perfecting without any pre-determined final point
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FATA merger and change management
The real problem will start to unfold when the merger process is carried out practically
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Empowering women of Pakistan
For a mother’s emancipation is deliverance of the entire family
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The right time?
The 'right time' syndrome reveals that we here in Pakistan still do not believe in democracy
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Open letter to Dr Banuri
The right investments in higher education can turn the trajectory of our intellectual fortunes skywards
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CPEC: transport or economic corridor?
History shows that transport corridors do transform into economic corridors through gradual development
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Kashmir — finding the way forward
'We need to build CBMs with Kashmiris via media and slogans and communicating in third countries'
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Faltering image
The PTI found itself wrong-footed with no one else to blame but themselves
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Empowering, enabling Thar
Dr Mir's dream is to empower the women craftspersons of Thar
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Pullback on the global front
This is the subject I will take up next week
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Survival is the name of the game
Survival depends more on self-help and mutual tolerance
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Reasons behind Indo-Pak truce
Continued hostilities between Pakistan and India will certainly be a distraction
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It’s love of money, stupid!
Tales of Zardari's alleged corruption are legendary
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FATA’s belated decolonisation
But most immediately through the merger, people of Fata may finally find solace
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Drought time bomb is ticking
Will planners and people at large rise out of slumber to save this country?
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Threat of delay
Flimsy grounds and legal judgments do not gel well. Generally.














































