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Rishi Sunak — the English Brahman
Sunak's paternal grandfather was from Gujranwala
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Let the ballot determine
On Oct 16 Pakistan experienced a wonder that has never happened in the electoral history of the country
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Comparative analysis: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
IMF has projected that Bangladesh’s per capita income would overtake India’s soon
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Death to neoliberalism
The hegemonic ideology of neoliberalism must be directed to its rightful place: the dustbin of history
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Kashmir — a practical manifestation of Hindutva
Why India will employ illegal and coercive tools to suppress the right of self-determination of Kashmiris
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Too tired to help?
Only a few weeks ago a third of the country was under water
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Poverty — a multidimensional approach
Multidimensional poverty encompasses multiple deprivations experienced by the poor
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Pakistan’s power sector reforms
Pakistan’s power and energy issues are interlinked and require structural reforms
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Facing future floods safely
Pakistan’s floods of 2022 were the latest, and most damaging yet, addition to its long history of floods
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Balochistan Blues
Oh, my beautiful land of the Baloch, what have they done to you?
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Likely impact of global recession on our economy
There has been a decline in growth rate by 46% from 2021
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China after the Party’s October 2022 Congress
The China that emerges following this meeting will be energised to pursue Xi’s agenda
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How Pakistan lost potential Afghan investments?
Pakistan’s exports to Afghanistan in Sept were around $80m while imports were $125m
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The price of making history
Arshad’s murder is the death of civic nationalism or what remains of it in this country
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How to promote strategic culture of research in Pakistan?
Viewed in context of Pakistan, research was never given a priority by the state which considered it as a threat
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The forgotten fraction and floods
The impact of the recent floods is still unfolding and the magnitude of the disaster is yet to be realised
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The answer is folic acid!
The problem in our part of the world is that the message has still not gone across the board
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Dar-konomics
How does Dar step into Pakistan after five years, makes no economic reforms, and the dollar goes down?
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The Hindutva consolidation
To placate and consolidate the Hindu base, the othering of the minorities becomes almost a foregone conclusion
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Will go with the wind?
If today French society is an example for others, it is because of its writers and thinkers
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Animals’ five freedoms
The government of Pakistan should improve upon the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1890
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Post-colonial medical brain-drain
BBC has found evidence of active British recruitment of doctors from WHO red-list countries
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Do the civilians lack coordination capabilities?
There is very little discussion on how we got into the FATF grey list in the first place
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Sleepwalking into an Arab Spring
Autocratic dispensations gave way to populist set-ups on the back of euphoric aspirations that remain unfulfilled
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For Pakistan... China or America?
Are we in the midst of a power-relationship reset with Great Powers?
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Pak-US ties and myth of independence
The US-Pakistan relations have always been an epic of Love and Hate, Demand and Supply, and being used and abuse
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Adieu Arshad Sharif
We may never know who killed Arshad
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Where do we stand as a nation?
For the last few months, Pakistanis have seen nothing but turmoil
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A superstar victim of dictatorship!
People of KN Shah remember ‘Irani’ but few are aware of his success in Iran’s film industry
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Need for a judicious probe
Pakistan had enough of probe commissions, and the general outcome has never been satisfactory, ever
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The dream of reforming police
Much-needed resources could not be made available. Thus the police force is still lingering on with stereotype methods
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The change in command
Politicians are not the only one that are corrupt, there is corruption in several branches of the government
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US National Security Strategy 2022
President Joe Biden expresses in the 2022 NSS that “the world is at an inflection point
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Rendering climate justice
Pakistan is warming much faster than other nations
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Crisis after crisis
Pakistan has always been known to mimic the policies, systems and doctrines from the West
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Turning the spotlight on Karachi’s road safety issues
With the exponential increase of the population in Karachi, traffic has drastically burgeoned
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Research on forced displacement
The most recent floods are likely to make an even bigger impact on forced migration
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Poverty-promoted child abuse
Poverty is highest form of violence that can be inflicted on human beings
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No honour
A killer will now walk the streets of Pakistan freely and openly
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How to revive the Pakistani economy?
Those in charge of looking after the economy had outside help
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12 Oct 1999: Hijacking from the Ground
The then PM is said to have hijacked the plane or been behind it since he wanted to replace Musharraf
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Climate change solutions qualify as comedy
The advertised solutions of climate change have one thing in common: they conflict with each other
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Pakistan’s population problem
Pakistan presents a case study of population mismanagement and disproportionate growth
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Can India become the world’s third biggest economy?
Modi predicted that India would overtake Japan and Germany
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Malaria, dengue and Covid19
Pakistan has reported 3.4 million cases of malaria from January to August 2022
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What’s eating Gwadar
The road infrastructure, at least along the coastline, and the hospitality industry have come a long way
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Why strong institutions are necessary for economic growth
What determines productivity and investment climate in a country like Pakistan?
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No end to instability
Economic stability and growth cannot be achieved without first ensuring political stability
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Digital platform work in Pakistan
Digital platforms have found ingenious ways to offer goods and services to global consumers
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Biden’s diplomatic nuclear faux pas
US President brought up Pakistan’s nuclear programme with shockingly undiplomatic language