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Two days to go
It is an open and shut case
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Challenges to child protection
The lack of awareness breeds aloofness in our social behaviours and we turn a blind eye to victim’s plight
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Death-trap tankers
It emerges that the ill-fated tanker did not meet the safety standards of the company that owned and operated it
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Infrastructure igniting innovation
Pakistan may have missed tech opportunities, but it can ride the innovation wave by the 4th Industrial Revolution
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Courageous civil servants
The report is a decade-old but none of its recommendations have ever been implemented
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Roots of cultural invasion
It is very important to acknowledge that culture and religion are two different entities
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Human development: the bigger picture
However, our world still faces many development challenges, most of which are mutually reinforcing
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Politics of Panama leaks
Both the PML-N and the PTI are engaged in a high pitch criticism of each other
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I am left behind
This misogynistic mindset prevails in most state bodies
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What happened to politics?
Politics in my youth was a sort of prototypical Fifty Shades of Grey; monochrome and deeply tedious, worthy but dull
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Education spending in Balochistan
Only 44 per cent of the 10-year-old and older population of Balochistan ever attended school
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Pakistan and its neighbours
When nobody likes you, the problem could very well be with you
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Our foreign policy challenges
Pakistan finds relations with China invaluable which also helps counter US-India pressure
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Boosting competitiveness and export performance
Our policymakers have never adopted measures to cure the root causes of these problems
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One in eight billion
And whosoever chooses to defy the laws of nature does so at his or her own peril
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Burns and gaps in biotech
The Bahawalpur disaster was a tragic event the likes of which we hope we never see again
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Trump and South Asia
Pakistan needs to adjust to this challenging environment
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Raazia Chandoo: A Window to the Interior
Neither you nor I can be the judge of His guidance or His will
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A spoilt rich kid in charge
His father’s entourage for a recent trip to Asia included 1,000 people, 10 airplanes and 500 limousines.
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Pakistan and the building tensions in the Middle East
The new American president feels that his country and the Kingdom share a number of interests
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Blame the tax collector
The finance minister had high expectations from the FBR despite tax concessions
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Gau raksha and the lynch mobs
97 per cent of gau raksha violence happened after Modi’s government came to power: IndiaSpend
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Bahawalpur inferno
Despite its 122 million-plus population, Punjab has only 280 burn recovery beds for the entire province
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Islamic State and Baloch militants
Pakistani counter terrorism agencies' operations against the IS has, by and large, been reactive rather than proactive
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Dyslexia will push us back if we let it
Who knows what kind of a world we would be living in had Einstein not found a way around his dyslexia?
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The scars will not go away
Bomb blasts and oil blasts may be causing equal damage but evoke a different response
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The Big Bang theory
There is much that is wrong with all stakeholders in the power game — and yet two wrongs do not make a right
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What the Gulf crisis means for Pakistan
Islamabad has the perfect opportunity to further strengthen its current alliances and its policy of non-alignment
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Enhancing tax transparency
Fifteen jurisdictions which previously had a less than satisfactory rating peer reviews against the EOIR standard
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Child labour: lack of coherent reforms in Pakistan
Unless coherent reforms are initiated, eradication of child labour will remain an elusive dream
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Deconstructing Bahawalpur accident
Though inquires cannot bring back the lost lives, they can surely feed in policies preventing such accidents in future
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Small business, big impact
Growth cannot become inclusive overnight
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Modi’s Trump card
President Trump said, “the security partnership between the US and India is incredibly important"
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Bahawalpur tragedy: healthcare ramifications
The Bahawalpur tragedy; a reminder of how much needs to be done in Shahbaz Sharif’s province which prides on progress
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Education spending in Sindh
One of the greatest reproaches against the British rule is the neglect of elementary education
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The ‘X’ people
After the court, the battles then were fought with the bureaucracy
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Business in the time of escalating tensions
Why has the US been so insensitive and callous?
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Fires, facts and fallacies
Why did the police not do more and quickly? What about the fire engines? Burns units?
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Enabling supply chain exploitation
Such keenness to increase revenues can also enable serious exploitation of workers
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Modi savaged by The Economist
India’s economy is currently growing at a slower pace than it was three years ago
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Who failed Ravita Meghwar?
Protection of Minorities Bill failed to be passed into law despite being approved by Sindh Assembly members
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Torture must end
The effectiveness of torture to obtain information is a myth that needs to be refuted
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Pakistan in a geographically precarious place
America was to become great again by focusing on only its own interests
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Fencing borders
Fencing will prevent illegal crossings and terrorist infiltration from both sides of the border
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Victory has many fathers
Who needs cricket anyway when politics is our national sport?
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The audacity of passion
This is the opportunity to implement all the plans that have been made in the past to do so
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It tolls for thee
The same murder, madness and mayhem. Yet again they strike. Yet again we fail. Yet again we die
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Analysing the performance of education in K-P
The education facilities in KP need upgrades for the region to flourish
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The US must value our role in emerging regional order
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan are in a battle of supremacy and influence leading to the lack of peace in the region
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An inclusive economic model
China-Pakistan relations foster an inclusive economic bond
















































