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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
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Apartheid in Israel
Apartheid is prevalent in all spheres of life
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200-plus deaths
But the belated decision has also drawn criticism from many a student and their parents
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Encroachments
Parks, playgrounds, and other open amenity plots function as lungs in big cities
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Police brutality?
Some recent unfortunate incidents indicate that the legislation is not being implemented in letter and spirit
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Kissan Card scheme
The Kissan Card scheme aims to streamline the administration of various government programmes that support farmers
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Rethinking assessments
Our authorities and teaching professionals perhaps need to use this opportunity to rethink how students are assessed
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PTI at 25
The real test of a political party starts when it takes over the reins of the government
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Tourism under threat
Tourism in Pakistan’s ecologically-fragile areas has significantly increased the stress on the environment
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Long wait for elderly
A large number of laws have been enacted, but bad when seen in the context of their enforcement
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Digitising parliament
Govts worldwide have opted to incorporate e-governance slowly to minimise the threat this poses to cyber-security
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Child abuse report
Despite the enactment of new laws prescribing deterrent punishments, reports of abuse have increased in the country.
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Shrinking FDI
Ruling PTI failed to lure foreign investors to the country despite claims
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Qureshi’s visits
Aimed at evolving a consensus on the longstanding Afghan issue
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Corrosive hate
Attackers want their victim to suffer, not just in the moment, but for the rest of their lives
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New Covid curbs
It’s sad to note that the vaccination rate per hundred people in Pakistan is 0.36
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Internet disparity
Let us not mistake the internet as a mere platform for entertainment
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Bonded labour
Education can significantly contribute to the elimination of bonded labour
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Quetta hotel attack
The timing of the attack is a reminder that this is not a conventional opponent
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Special courts for expats
The need is to create a tight-knit overseas community that is a socio-political entity in its own right
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Great hunger looming
At least 34 million people in Third World countries are facing the spectre of a great hunger
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Black lives do matter
This one verdict does not solve the bigger problem, but at least it gets the ball rolling
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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
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Unfulfilled pledges
Right now the Karachi Transformation Plan is only crawling ahead
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Textile dependency
Pakistan exports wheat, sugar, and cotton, but ending up importing them in recent months due to poor crop yields
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Doomed to fail
Populism is doomed to fail. It may seem a bright idea to some, in the short run
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Landless peasants
The lack of economic opportunities in rural areas is fuelling rural-urban migration
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The bail order mystery
Incidents such as this one erode faith in the judiciary
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Eliminating illegal arms
Punjab govt launches a drive to cancel the existing licences of weapons dealers and issue fresh ones
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Absence of urban planning
A staggering 12m people living in vulnerable informal settlements and 550 storm-water drains
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Verifying refugees
Pakistan’s Commissionerate launches a drive to verify the data of the 1.4m registered Afghan refugees
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Women, ‘honour’ and justice
Scores of women are killed in the country every year in the name ‘honour’, while the culprits go scot free
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Agri prices
Past several years Pakistan has been importing two commodities it used to export
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US sanctions on Russia
For alleged interference in the 2020 elections and the SolarWinds hack
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Economic inequality
Economic inequality has always prevailed in human society in one form or the other
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A new team again
PTI’s search for a right team-combination continues more than two and a half years into the government tenure
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Babar Azam on top
In Babar, Pakistan have found a dependable batsman
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Encouraging LSM figures
This turnaround will likely have a positive multiplier effect on most sectors of the economy
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Biden’s pullout decision
The Americans bet on a series of lame horses and have been unable to change their bets
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Rising expat dollars
Remittances from abroad have long been a big support for our country which is awfully desperate for foreign exchange
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Ramazan and raging virus
The trend is worrying, as the holy month of fasting has always been marked by people congregating for various reasons
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New census
PTI may become the first govt anywhere in the world to publish two separate census results in the same term in office
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Final nail?
PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tears apart the show-cause notice issued to his party by the PDM
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Our children
More than 2.5 million children living in streets across Pakistan
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Good news from Germany
Arrival of vaccine in big number will give the much-need acceleration to the Covid vaccination process in Pakistan
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Ramazan and price hike
Many essentials might go beyond the reach of common people this Ramazan if profiteers are allowed to have their way
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Blank cheque?
Offer may well put Pakistan at a crossroads — go all-in on Russian aid and risk being ostracised by Western nations
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Victory for PML-N
PML-N’s magic in Punjab has not faded despite a sustained political campaign against its leadership from PTI leaders
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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
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Amnesty’s HR report
Revealing countries used the Covid pandemic as a pretext to curtail fundamental rights of their peoples