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When fresh is old
Afridi contributed to the success of the intelligence agency’s operation-Operation Neptune Spear
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Railway allotments
Pakistan Railways is a federal government entity and no provincial government has the authority
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Smart watch ban
Pakistani cricket players barred from wearing smart watches while playing test series against England
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The Murree robberies
Dozens of vehicles and their passengers were looted in a highway robbery on 16 May
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Illegal rehabilitation centre
An Illegal rehab centre was operating in Kot Khawaja Saeed, Punjab
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Running on empty
There is nothing that Pakistan can do that is going to affect long-term global weather patterns
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An ally that isn’t
What if a Pakistani national had slain a US citizen. Would they have been allowed to leave scot-free?
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The unclimbable summit
The ingredients for failure were on the table from the outset
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Dodging the blacklist
The Action Plan? Years too late
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The price of politics — and politicians
This expansion of a privileged elite by subterfuge serves nobody well
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Hajj preferences
Fuzzy logic may be useful but only so long as it is appropriately manipulating uncertain information
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Transgender pioneers
Around the world the transgender community is raising its profile across the spectrum
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Leaders need to create more jobs
With a growth in jobs, there should be an increment in salaries
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Electoral blight
Externally Pakistan continues to receive an almost universally bad or negative press
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Moral policing on campus
Creating gender stereotypes on campuses will only contribute to our already prevalent culture of intolerance
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A waiting game
Powers include enactment of legislation on minerals, hydropower and tourism sectors
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Keeping CPEC on track
There are multiple delays and failures-to-thrive across the entire spectrum
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Uncertainty over Chabahar
Advantage Pakistan!
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Beyond 100 days
Elections generally tend to be characterised by a lack of specifics in the run-up
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A crippled justice system
There are aspects of justice that are capable of reform if the political will is there
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Misconduct in the house
It was indeed a dreadful display of political one-upmanship by assembly members
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Staving off a trade war
Breakthrough came when China decided to lower trade imbalance
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Power secretary’s exit
In all fairness, the secretary was only given a short period of time to take major decisions on high stakes projects
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Rohingya rapes and resultant births
The timeline strongly suggests that rape was unleashed on the Rohingyas as a weapon of war
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Sabika Sheikh
The State of Texas has some of the most lax gun laws in the entire US
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Muddy waters
The KHEP project is the subject of an ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan
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The withering of parliament
It is the place where representatives elected by the people work on the nuts and bolts of governance
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Racketeering in Ramazan
Traders will argue that they charge the rates that the market will stand
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Mango exports and size
Orchards in Hyderabad, Tando Allah Yar and Mirpurkhas have just not received enough water this season
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Punjab ahead of K-P in human development
The image of K-P painted by its government and the ruling party concerns the software of development
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Another failure in FATA
Postponement of Fata reforms has nothing to do with rights of people; everything to do with vested interests
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Tripping over
There is to be a “fact-finding committee” to investigate the most serious power breakdown for at least a year
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Ferry policy
Running a ferry service from Karachi to Chabahar, Muscat and Dubai is an attractive proposition
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Continued troubles for Peshawar
Developers are responsible for inconvenience to residents
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Water crunch
We are in dire need to diversify water resources
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A promising start?
'Pakistan is part of the solution rather than part of the problem'
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Sensitive taxes
The next decade is going to see Chinese interests in Pakistan grow exponentially.
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Fake security and Islamabad airport
These devices were first sold in the USA as golf ball detectors for $20 apiece and later as drug scanners
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A doctrine of impunity
May 14th 2018 is seen by some, but not all as the day when Israel transcended its own elastic norms
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No room at the inn
Moneeza managed to make the trip from Lahore to Delhi because her previously issued visa was still valid
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Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Unpacking the document we find that it is little more than a change of nameplates on office doors
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It’s all in the optics
There is a serial failure to effectively market externally aspects of national image that cast a positive light
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Peshawar labour laws at school
It is unfortunate that lawmakers took away the rights of employees
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Compensation principles
Airline has withheld financial compensation worth Rs5 million to each family of air crash victims
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An unstoppable Mafia
Much of the construction is close to the entrance of the airport
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May 12 investigations
the first person causing violent agitation should be stopped before carnage spreads
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The flying dinosaur
The very large dinosaur that is PIA has chosen the path of evolutionary failure
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Polio – the fight for reason
Just as it seems that one final push will take the nation over the line to be polio-free another rock appears
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Ending speculation over polls
There are no technical or legal reasons for postponing the election
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Tilting the scales
It would be quite handy to have loyalists as law officers during the tenure of the caretaker government