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Continuing US quest for an ally in South Asia
Pakistan, once a major non-NATO ally, has doled out great sacrifices in the US global war on terror
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The brewing crisis in education
Over-ambitious parents, mostly compensating for their own failures in life, overburden kids with academic rigours
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How would the most dangerous nation look like?
Terrorism is defined as calculated use of violence for achieving goals that are political and ideological in nature
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Pharmaceutical downfall
The healthcare budget must always be flexible enough to cope up with such untoward happenings
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Pasteurised milk essential to attain SDGs
Development has many facets. Provision of food is one. The provision of safe food is another
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Rule of law or a fragile state
The new wave of terrorism has created a sense of insecurity across K-P as armed groups move freely
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The Don Quixotes of our times
Let’s try to make out why people are still turning out to be Quixote when his age is long gone
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President Biden’s latest outburst
The comments were also a reaffirmation of Biden’s frustrations with a rising China and Pakistan’s relationship with it
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IEA under Taliban: uneasy peace and economic challenges
They keep asking: why do the US and its European allies then single out Afghanistan for human rights?
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Why is it difficult to sell climate change story of our flood?
Pakistan’s response to this flood and future climate change events should be to address its own behaviour first
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Sovereignty or servitude: nation at the crossroads
Pakistan cannot afford to procrastinate the decades-old ambivalence between sovereignty and servitude
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BRI leads through GDI and GSI
China is perceived to be a revisionist state attempting to challenge the prevalent world order steered by USA
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Dignity for the living, and the dead
The fact that the system does not work is no surprise — the harder question is: how does one make it work?
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Women’s situation in two hotspots
Cultural mores, society preferences and increasingly interpreted religion determine how society treats their women
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Algocracy and the future of democracy
Algocracy turns democracies into authoritarianism through political engineering, bots and extreme political ideologies
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Identity politics and its discontents
The fixation around ‘lived experiences’ today, is in many ways, a form of egotism
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Dissecting Biden’s statement
Imran Khan has cashed in on Biden’s statement as he has already come down hard on the PDM government
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In praise of failure
Had there been no failures, the world would have been entangled within the blind streets of stagnation
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Happiness vs contentment vs passion
The obvious answer is moderation but moderation is joyless
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As the world is getting closer to Armageddon…
When the world will cease to exist because of the melting of Arctic and Antarctic, the war in Ukraine will not matter
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Nightmares never end
For our country, even the IMF’s recommended policies which the experts call ‘shock therapy’ are not working
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Child maltreatment
Pakistan is ranked amongst the lowest countries in terms of child protection and safety
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A commoner’s view on SC elevations
The controversy surrounding the elevation of judges to the Supreme Court, has not left the common man unruffled
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Climate-driven displacements
Pakistan should create climate resilient towns within CPEC linked SEZs
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Afghanistan — still in post-US trauma
Isolating Afghanistan has been set up as the missionary work of the Pentagon, RAW since the day of the withdrawal
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Technology is the new economy
Russia is forcing the world to accept its geopolitical assertion using economic shock as a weapon
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Sugar daddies are back
Exports and remittances are falling and the external financing needs are the highest ever
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CTBT: a success story ready for completion
CTBT has created and sustained a norm against nuclear testing so powerful
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The real difference between US and Pakistan
In Pakistan, you can’t change your destiny. With the exception of a few outliers, such as cricket stars
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Resolvable problems of the Afghan government
The fact that this decades-long struggle would have never come to fruition without Pakistan’s steadfast, risky support
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All opportunists sans saviour
Pakistan is pretty much on the brink of collapse. The saviours are many, but they are also opportunists
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The world is changing — marrows and motifs
Unipolartity has transformed into multipolarity with many regional powers emerging on the political canvas
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Therapeutic jurisprudence of suicide
In past Mental health disciplines have helped in shaping new laws, the legal system, and the behaviour of legal actors
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Dealing with climate induced calamities
Most harm is done to the country and its people when leaders close their minds and are unwilling to embrace changes
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Russian military’s aggression — and retreat
Ukrainian infrastructure and industry have been decimated by reckless air bombardment and missiles onslaught
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Sand in the palms of time
The surprising thing about death is that we may see it coming but to an extent
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Why is our democracy not delivering?
According to Gallup Pakistan Survey only 28% of Pakistanis believe that the politicians enter politics to serve people
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Ode to great mentors
PhD advisers are often unavailable or uninterested in student’s personal, professional and intellectual development
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Future of Pak-US ties
Many US commentators and retired diplomats have concluded that Pakistan figures nowhere in US scheme in the long run
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There can be no economic miracle in Pakistan!
Pakistan is totally oblivious of ground realities pertaining to serious political and economic crisis
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Pakistan’s Konrad Adenauer
All these civilian and military rulers have combined to drag us to the stage where we are on threshold of defaulting
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Character building and education
Meanwhile, character development is a secondarily important element in most of the educational institutes in Pakistan
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Hepatitis E vaccination during floods and monsoon rains
Pregnant women when exposed to Hepatitis E virus suffer more with more severe disease
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Remembering 2005 earthquake amid the 2022 floods
No wonder our disaster management remains as poor as it was in 2005 or 1992
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Easing up on parental policing
It was very clear the future lay in the use of digital technologies, be they for education or entertainment
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Leaking
The elites of the country and the media tell you there is only one topic of discussion that matters — Imran Khan
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Re-emergence of proxy terrorism
We must not confuse this with the omnipresent religiosity in the length and breadth of Pakistan
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Rethink disaster mitigation
Disaster-proof infrastructure development has clearly not been given due attention
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Daronomics
The term has regained currency since return of Ishaq Dar, PML-N’s answer to all economic ills
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How Pakistan can further leverage SCO in 2022 and beyond?
SCO members represent nearly half of globe’s population, quarter of planet’s GDP and roughly 80% of Eurasian landmass