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Changing minds for climate change
Changing minds for climate change was the title of four day international conference in Islamabad
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No great story starts with a salad
I had heard scary stories about the writer’s block. Trust me they are all true
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Violence against children
I was shocked to know about the horrific incident of violence against a child in Cadet College Larkana
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Donald Trump’s civilisational war
What will be Donald Trump’s approach towards the Islamic world once he takes office?
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The most accident-prone province
Police reform in K-P, it seems, is not yet reflected in performance
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Rape province
The bigger issue is not jirgas. It is governance, or the lack of it
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Pakistan and India: current issues and future directions
Though they are not in a state of war, a virtual warlike situation exists on the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir
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A little “MIT for Pakistan”
In short duration of 3 years, our MIT for Pakistan members have won over Rs700 Million in competitive research grants
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Will dowry deaths never end?
At over 2000 dowry-related deaths per year Pakistan’s reported number of dowry deaths are surpassed only by India
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A self-created crisis?
It is crisis that is being managed poorly by govt and, it is absolutely clear, even more shoddily by the opposition
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Dead of winter
How many more death anniversaries do we need to observe in December before it is too much?
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The fourth party conundrum
The promise of change sounds good. Yet its contours are seldom defined
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The four demands
It is the policy that matters, not the man who represents the actual holder of the portfolio
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Social deterrence to bad governance
Around 70 per cent of private schools are either being run by government teachers or owned by them
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The night I'll never forget
I had no tears left till one day, a few months later, I saw this picture of my wife with some APS children
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Poisoning Lahore
Every winter, Lahoris are used to thick fog descending upon the city
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Junaid Jamshed and the disco cleric inside me
After my parents banned music in our household, I had access to only one contraband song as a nine year old boy
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Grim December
December reminds us of the painful drop scene when some 45 years ago Pakistan flag was lowered at Ramna Green, Dhaka
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What I found by losing Junaid
I first saw him more than 30 years ago. Tall, fair, with a Waheed Murad-like KoKo Korina charisma
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A Darwesh at the frontline
The problems in Qabb Ilyas are a reminder of the evil within us
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The post-truth era
The internet has been playing jiggery-pokery with the truth as well to the surprise of nobody
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Come to senses neighbour
It seems that India is hell-bent on deteriorating already dismal relations with Pakistan to the point of no return
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37 years: too late, too little
The Physics Centre of Quaid-e-Azam University, 37 years after he won the Nobel Prize will at last carry his name
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Russia, Daesh and Afghanistan
A senior Afghan security official called the Russian support for the Taliban a "dangerous new trend
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Democrats on high alert
Lessons are proving hard to come by for the losers of the shocking US Presidential election
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Pakistan’s power sector: going up, down or nowhere?
Pakistan’s power sector has come out of its worst financial crisis
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The dangerously lax culture of safety
Life is cheap as road and rail accidents, fire in factories, and collapse of building structures are common occurrence
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Trump and Obama’s Asia pivot
Donald Trump is succeeding a man with deep knowledge and interest in the Asian continent
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Quality journalism is essential for democracy
This is a challenging, disturbing and exciting time to be a journalist
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Fighting the fire
As media glare moves on, one can be sure that the families of victims of the Regent Plaza Fire will never get justice
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Moving towards a knowledge economy
PML-N government is allocating huge resources towards establishing a knowledge infrastructure in Pakistan
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The “dying” art of listening
We need to find more considered ways to engage with the ordinary yet remarkable things found in life
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Nawaz Sharif and the Caribbean storm
For the third time a Nawaz Sharif government has pulled a rabbit out of the hat
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An intriguing state of affairs
Modi’s style is exact opposite style as Manmohan Singh, who was detail oriented as you would expect an academic to be
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A reason to reason
When zest, zeal and zap overrides fundamentals of reason and rationality, situational train wrecks are matter of time
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Filterless society
A few of my friends have no filters. They evidently have serious problem in keeping very private information private
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Not War, Not Peace?
Lately India has been using a combination of her ‘hard- and soft-power’
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US-Pakistan relations: an appraisal
The US-Pakistan relations stand today at a critical juncture where multipolarity has gained ground
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The making of a slum city
Pakistani and foreign visitors may still find Islamabad picturesque and serene. The reality is quite the otherwise
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Goodbye farming?
To keep up with global food demand, the UN estimates, almost 15 million acres of new farmland is needed every year
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Women’s ‘no’ means ‘yes’, Trump proves?
The long standing notion has been debated by men and detested and denounced by women for a long time
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What should a modern university look like?
Imagine a new university being planned in Pakistan
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Revolutionising the countrywide Socio-Economic Registry
The BISP is aware of the importance of consultation to make the process more transparent, dynamic and vigorous
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Among the hipsters
Classy events to mark the opening of a high-end salon are not my usual beat
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Indo-Pak CBM blues
People on both sides stand to benefit from an era of peace
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Raheel’s successor
General Qamar Javed Bajwa took over command of the Pakistan army’s 16th chief on November 29, 2016
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Curbs on forced conversion
Sindh proudly maintains eight percent religious minorities, the highest religious diversity according to 1998 census
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Indian jingoism
Will the Indian belittling attitude force Pakistan into submission?
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Policy issues amid hysterical media coverage
Let media become pragmatic and give the country a chance to learn to sift the right from wrong
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When real estate captures power
A global real estate tycoon is being elected president of the USA