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  • Commercial courts

    Punjab plans to set up special commercial courts across province to help expedite hearings and decisions in such cases

  • Apartheid in Israel

    Apartheid is prevalent in all spheres of life

  • 200-plus deaths

    But the belated decision has also drawn criticism from many a student and their parents

  • Encroachments

    Parks, playgrounds, and other open amenity plots function as lungs in big cities

  • Police brutality?

    Some recent unfortunate incidents indicate that the legislation is not being implemented in letter and spirit

  • Kissan Card scheme

    The Kissan Card scheme aims to streamline the administration of various government programmes that support farmers

  • Rethinking assessments

    Our authorities and teaching professionals perhaps need to use this opportunity to rethink how students are assessed

  • PTI at 25

    The real test of a political party starts when it takes over the reins of the government

  • Tourism under threat

    Tourism in Pakistan’s ecologically-fragile areas has significantly increased the stress on the environment

  • Long wait for elderly

    A large number of laws have been enacted, but bad when seen in the context of their enforcement

  • Digitising parliament

    Govts worldwide have opted to incorporate e-governance slowly to minimise the threat this poses to cyber-security

  • Child abuse report

    Despite the enactment of new laws prescribing deterrent punishments, reports of abuse have increased in the country.

  • Shrinking FDI

    Ruling PTI failed to lure foreign investors to the country despite claims

  • Qureshi’s visits

    Aimed at evolving a consensus on the longstanding Afghan issue

  • Corrosive hate

    Attackers want their victim to suffer, not just in the moment, but for the rest of their lives

  • New Covid curbs

    It’s sad to note that the vaccination rate per hundred people in Pakistan is 0.36

  • Internet disparity

    Let us not mistake the internet as a mere platform for entertainment

  • Bonded labour

    Education can significantly contribute to the elimination of bonded labour

  • Quetta hotel attack

    The timing of the attack is a reminder that this is not a conventional opponent

  • Special courts for expats

    The need is to create a tight-knit overseas community that is a socio-political entity in its own right

  • Great hunger looming

    At least 34 million people in Third World countries are facing the spectre of a great hunger

  • Black lives do matter

    This one verdict does not solve the bigger problem, but at least it gets the ball rolling

  • Who killed the doctor?

    Both society and govt bear responsibility for pushing a highly qualified young man to the point of taking his own life

  • Unfulfilled pledges

    Right now the Karachi Transformation Plan is only crawling ahead

  • Textile dependency

    Pakistan exports wheat, sugar, and cotton, but ending up importing them in recent months due to poor crop yields

  • Doomed to fail

    Populism is doomed to fail. It may seem a bright idea to some, in the short run

  • Landless peasants

    The lack of economic opportunities in rural areas is fuelling rural-urban migration

  • The bail order mystery

    Incidents such as this one erode faith in the judiciary

  • Eliminating illegal arms

    Punjab govt launches a drive to cancel the existing licences of weapons dealers and issue fresh ones

  • Absence of urban planning

    A staggering 12m people living in vulnerable informal settlements and 550 storm-water drains

  • Verifying refugees

    Pakistan’s Commissionerate launches a drive to verify the data of the 1.4m registered Afghan refugees

  • Women, ‘honour’ and justice

    Scores of women are killed in the country every year in the name ‘honour’, while the culprits go scot free

  • Agri prices

    Past several years Pakistan has been importing two commodities it used to export

  • US sanctions on Russia

    For alleged interference in the 2020 elections and the SolarWinds hack

  • Economic inequality

    Economic inequality has always prevailed in human society in one form or the other

  • A new team again

    PTI’s search for a right team-combination continues more than two and a half years into the government tenure

  • Babar Azam on top

    In Babar, Pakistan have found a dependable batsman

  • Encouraging LSM figures

    This turnaround will likely have a positive multiplier effect on most sectors of the economy

  • Biden’s pullout decision

    The Americans bet on a series of lame horses and have been unable to change their bets

  • Rising expat dollars

    Remittances from abroad have long been a big support for our country which is awfully desperate for foreign exchange

  • Ramazan and raging virus

    The trend is worrying, as the holy month of fasting has always been marked by people congregating for various reasons

  • New census

    PTI may become the first govt anywhere in the world to publish two separate census results in the same term in office

  • Final nail?

    PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tears apart the show-cause notice issued to his party by the PDM

  • Our children

    More than 2.5 million children living in streets across Pakistan

  • Good news from Germany

    Arrival of vaccine in big number will give the much-need acceleration to the Covid vaccination process in Pakistan

  • Ramazan and price hike

    Many essentials might go beyond the reach of common people this Ramazan if profiteers are allowed to have their way

  • Blank cheque?

    Offer may well put Pakistan at a crossroads — go all-in on Russian aid and risk being ostracised by Western nations

  • Victory for PML-N

    PML-N’s magic in Punjab has not faded despite a sustained political campaign against its leadership from PTI leaders

  • Wholesale and retail climate degradation

    As long as fossil fuels are burnt, there would be a relentless march toward our extinction caused by climate change

  • Amnesty’s HR report

    Revealing countries used the Covid pandemic as a pretext to curtail fundamental rights of their peoples