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Achieving Agenda 2030
Development and economic growth are poised to make Pakistan grow exponentially in the coming years
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Parting shots
There was at least agreement on one item — that the elections should go ahead as planned, a view we endorse
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Wrangling the tax monster
No other government has ever done anything beyond bungle, fumble and fail with taxation
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A four-front confrontation
When you sum up these anti-Pakistan efforts being made by all these lobbies
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Governing Karachi
There is a need now to come up with what I would call the ‘Greater Cities Empowerment Order’
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Europe and Asia — together for a more secure world
Not only a pillar of multilateralism: the EU is a security actor in its own right
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‘Me too’ but ‘so what’?
The courts must strive to interpret laws to allow victims to seek support from them
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Mainstreaming FATA and the PPP’s role
The role of PPP must not be forgotten during this voyage
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Limits of the ‘girls effect’
Several scholars have expressed concerns about the potential of young girls
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Reform without anti-poor austerity
It is the challenge we face
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Drugs, kids and dangerous nonsense
There are no empirically researched facts about drug use in schools
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Nuclear weapons as security assets
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons become a crucial component of the overall security architecture against India
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Remembering Pakistan’s entry into the nuclear club
Full benefit of being a nuclear power can only be derived if all elements of national power are balanced
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Flaws in our democracy
Are we just a democracy in name, or in substance too?
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What will help crack Pakistan’s code?
We have got to start doing things that we’ve never done before
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The politics of a spy swap
Shakil Afridi’s and Jadhav’s fates might very well resemble that of Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy captured by the FBI
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Re-inventing ourselves in Ramazan
No matter how your year went, Ramazan is the chance for a new beginning
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My six years with the government
Punjab is a largely digitised affair
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Stunting — a $10 billion problem
45% of children remain stunted on account of malnutrition
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Diagnostics and disease management
Diagnosis and disease management is not just a fundamental right, it is also good economics
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The borderlands
True integration requires the people of Fata to discard the yoke of Rewaj in favour of basic human rights
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Watching America from within
In putting Pakistan down, Trump has expressed a strong preference for strengthening relations with India
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Getting rid of cobwebs
APP seems to have lost its direction
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Railway allotments
Pakistan Railways is a federal government entity and no provincial government has the authority
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Twenty years after
Nuclear testing, conflict and deterrence
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A hello to cellular 5G
High-frequency 5G signals could not reach longer distances
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Imran Khan’s foreign policy
PTI’s action plan is not different from the policies of the outgoing government of the PML-N
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CBM blues
Recent incidents across the LoC have underlined the futility of dialogue through ‘confidence building measures’
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Hebron’s heartaches
Shifting of the American Embassy to Jerusalem emboldened Israel to extend their muscle to the city of Hebron
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Creating 10 million jobs in five years
For the first time in the country’s history a debate has started about job creation
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The edge of shame
In the 2018-23 term, governments will need to translate money into actual work
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Let’s do away with the make-believe
Forty-five years should be more than enough to bridge the development gap between the two zones
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Mercury toxicity
Success lies in finding a solution and banning the use of mercury dental amalgams
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US school shootings: is it really only their problem?
What is happening in America today is also creeping into our country
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How do we fix Karachi?
Karachi, like any mega city, needs a different and distinct governance model
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On PTI’s reaction
Now human development is billed as the main plank of the PTI platform
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Can Sabika’s killer be tried in Pakistan?
In Sabika’s case, the only thing that’s Pakistani is the victim’s nationality
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Fasten your seat belts
In the dog days of the current dispensation, there is a kind of eerie calm in the political household
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What’s harming Western democracy
The fear of the collapse of democracy
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Juvenile drivers
Issue seems to have been overlooked
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The Big Heat
Climate change is real and year-on-year Pakistan is going to feel the heat
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Nation’s soul with Sabika
SantaFe shooting hits a raw nerve in Pakistan, where the nation’s heart beats as one with Sabika Sheikh and her family
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Public opinion and loud minority
Spiral of silence theory best explains public opinion formation
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Fair and free elections?
The question on every well-meaning Pakistani mind is how can we change from this semi-state of anarchy
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Who’s looking after the house and the backyard?
District courts suffer neglect as superior judiciary eyes greater publicity
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Behind the false narrative lie our true heroes
Pakistan's national narrative (like other countries is guarded from perceived internal and external threats
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CPEC and skills development
The upcoming job opportunities and skills demand can be broadly categorised into three major areas
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When flood and election seasons overlap
our election officials seem to have forgotten about the monsoon season
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Reasonable regulation
Regulation of not just food, but also medicines and medical commodities is a complex process
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Desperate Nawaz Sharif
He wants to be remembered as someone punished for his efforts to assert civilian supremacy












































