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How to wreck a country?
Path on which we are trekking is going to be bumpier with every passing day
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How nations develop — or fail?
The reason why our country is failing is that we are determined to run our country on centuries-old thinking, methods
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Engaging male allies for women empowerment — it’s time!
Men may not understand the importance of male allyship, which makes it challenging to create meaningful change
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Is there a way out of this freeze?
A consensus has to be developed in the two countries to engage in negotiations
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Too large to manage — even by rigging
Yesterday it was Bhutto, today it is Imran Khan, whose popularity despite all forms of oppression has peaked
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A journey of exploitation
Often those who take extraordinary risks to leave the country are viewed as foolish or ungrateful. They are neither.
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Building trust amid post-truth infodemics
Trust-building in society is vital for improving our governance, institutions and social setup
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Taliban’s legitimacy predicament
For the last 45 years, Afghanistan has been in turmoil
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Logical fallacies in media, political and intellectual discourse
We are all prone to fallacious thinking; the way forward is to recognise logical fallacies in one’s own thinking
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Genealogy of the present
An elected Prime Minister was disqualified for not receiving unreceivables
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Pakistan and the world debt problem
Once again, the world is faced with a similar situation
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Embracing the challenge
We did not have any prior training in writing critique so we started from scratch based on ‘learning by doing’
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Modi’s assault on India’s secular foundations
References to the Mughal rule are also being systematically removed from textbooks
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Why Mother Earth Day 2023 matters more than ever
Climate change is a real and pressing threat that has already begun to impact our world
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Age of charlatans
Many researches of this nature have been undertaken even by well-known research institutes
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Human being and being human
The most probable answer is in negation, for life offers no single universally applied account of human existence
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Climate action is like a paradise
If paradise required a visa, most of the global population would have lined up
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King Charles coronation and our CW connections
Is the Commonwealth relevant for Pakistan? I believe so
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Rise, ye children
I elaborate on each below, directly addressing young folks in particular
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India Pakistan: secret career of a dream
I can only wait and hope we finally find peace in the coming days
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De-dollarisation and emerging global order
These sanctions were mainly invoked by the US and EU, and applied globally
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Is neoliberalism promoting neofascism?
Populist leaders use overtly xenophobic or exclusionary tactics to grab and retain power
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Why agricultural productivity falls
Fragmentation of landholdings has occurred at an increasing pace because of demographic factors
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SCO Summit: fire for hawks, olive branch for doves
The young Mr Bhutto carries that belief in his veins and his armory
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Pakistan minus Pakistanis
About a million people already left Pakistan in 2022
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Education as a tool for social change
The findings were surprising
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Power struggles, force structure and collapse of ANDSF
Bribes to keep jobs were rampant
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From watchdog to lapdog
Freedom is one of the basic needs of every person, just like food, clothing and shelter
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Food safety and public awareness
The substandard ghee or oil used to fry eatables at roadside eateries is detrimental for human consumption
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Your life changes with your thinking
The greatest discovery of man is his thought
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Keeping in step with a changing world
The country that leads in technology will also boost its military power
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Time ripe for revolution
Before that England had experienced revolutions between 1648 and 1688
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Severing the roots
Very few voices in Pakistan highlighted how we are poorer because of our ignorance and disregard of a common heritage
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The Pulwama revelations: Modi’s fake narrative
'Pulwama attack was a result of India’s incompetence, Modi wanted to blame Pakistan and gain electoral advantage'
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Pakistan’s human capital opportunity
Pakistan’s growing working-age population can become healthier, more educated, more skilled, more productive
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Deepening survival crisis
There are growing concerns about the outbreak of a civil war due to deep-rooted political polarisation
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Time to prioritise social justice
Globally, real wages have fallen, poverty is rising, inequality seems more entrenched than ever
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What to expect of Bilawal’s India visit?
Nevertheless, Pakistan feels that it will not lose anything with Bilawal visiting India
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Human rights, Jaishankar and India’s foreign policy
Last year, a 300-year-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh that stood in the way of a highway was razed
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Global economy is hit from several different directions
Two bank defaults in the United States had shaken the world financial system
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O What Ails Thee, the Polity adrift?
As per US scholars, too much cultural, political separation between military and civilians also leads to the trouble
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Russia-China partnership — a headache for US
Currently, US is keeping a close watch on China to ensure that it doesn’t provide any military assistance to Russia
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Population anxiety in Pakistan
Proper approach is the human rights that promote the fact that getting babies is an individual decision
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Debunking the myths around corporal punishment
Truth is that corporal punishment is an ineffective disciplinary tool
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No no-go area?
As these areas do not typically pose direct physical danger, they can be called 'soft' no-go areas
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Sikh Insurgency 2.0
The Gill doctrine is based on four pillars
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Constitutionality of suo motu
The “disqualification” judgments of the PML-N supremo is a case in point
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Victim of religiosity
There are many factors at play here
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Generals of Sudan
For protection of their vital interests, world community will ensure that there is no peace nor any progress for Sudan
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Pakistan’s India policy
There are those who were present but have denied such crass deviance ascribed to Bajwa by the two