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Baby steps towards free trade
The Nawaz Administration should build a political coalition that would push economic liberalisation forward.
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Learning to share
PML-N should not waste its time trying to achieve an impossible goal.
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Lowari tunnel closure
The tunnel — which is not yet fully completed — is a lifeline for Chitralis but it is vulnerable.
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Checking corruption
It is necessary that the full course be run and the accusations we have heard over and over again be investigated.
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We need Manto more than ever
Curricula at universities must include his writings and an active effort must be made to salvage his legacy.
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Our education emergency
Unless we effectively addresses education emergency in next 10 years, it is going to forever trail behind neighbours.
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Working for peace
We need to develop mechanisms, which can allow us to keep calm along the boundaries of our two nations.
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The great hunger
K-P will only fulfil its own food needs when government devises a food security strategy — and that is a distant dream
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Communicating refusal
In 2013, 54,918 children were denied vaccination by their parents.
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Attack in Peshawar
The blast also reflects the weakness of the state with respect to the high moral ground given to militant forces.
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Unsafe flight
We may be pleasing our Arab guests, but we are allowing our own ecology and wildlife to be ravaged ruthlessly by them.
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Criminal politics
The acts of Khetran must not go unexamined and the identities of those helped by him must be uncovered.
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Unsafe roads
Dump trucks seem to be involved in a number of such accidents and steps must be taken to regulate their movement.
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Conflicts of interest
Having a person who has bought a company from govt on a board that has final say on sale of companies is problematic.
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On a whim
While it is within its right to shuffle top mandarins, the exercise should be dictated by merit, justifiable needs.
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Long wait
It is unfortunate that the attitude of governments in Lahore and Karachi is preventing the handing down of power.
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Deadly birds
International flights go in and out of BBIA, and an aircraft coming down may impact a densely-populated urban area.
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Same old mistakes
The administration’s current policies will likely accelerate the pace at which foreign currency leaves the country.
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Line of action
The right has dominated the narrative for too long and concerted efforts must be made to change this.
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Development agenda
Nawaz Administration should continue projects that are being run well, even if they do not mesh with its own agenda.
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Battlefield Karachi
Karachi is a city out of control of both the forces of law and order and civil governance.
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Deliberate misstatements
There have been reports that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is unhappy with Mr Dar’s performance.
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Recognising our heroes
There are people in the country willing to give up their lives to stand up to violent extremists.
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A needless ban
The government needs to take a reality check regarding the internet.
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A man worthy of being called ‘shaheed’
They finally got him on January 9, and the authorities need to quickly understand the gravity of this tragedy.
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Road deaths
Of course, all road accidents cannot be averted.
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Confusion in the education sector
This state of ambivalence is casting its baleful influence on key initiatives in the sector.
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Protecting our children’s future
Indeed, Aitizaz will live as a hero forever, but it is a pity that our children have to fight this war.
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Surging intolerance
Those carrying out these killings must be caught and put away and we hope made an example out of.
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Women of influence
There are more women in the workplace and in higher education than ever before.
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Saudi mission
Assertion from Saudi foreign minister that he was merely on ‘friendly visit’ to Pakistan does not carry much weight.
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A complete demolition job
Destroyed by pace and out-batted by sheer class, England were left searching for answers.
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Serial incompetence
All the suo-motu notices in the world are an irrelevance unless there is both the will and the capacity to act on them
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Cracking down on black money
SBP needs to take a firmer stand against money laundering.
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Teaching in English
What is most needed in the country is a re-haul of content and changing medium of instruction is unlikely to fix that.
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Diplomatic services
Decision to close Pakistan's Embassy in Dublin is an unwise economy and a reversal of the decision would be welcome.
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Privatisation, by any means
PML-N’s rush to privatise seems to be driven by centrality of privatisation to the administration’s budget strategy.
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Ignoring the problem
There cannot and should not be any compromise on the lives and safety of Pakistani workers.
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A deadly job
By November 2013, there had been 150 police killed and that number swelled to 172 by December 31.
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Another setback
We need to find a way of reducing the difficulties we face rather than standing by and watching them increase.
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Precious stones
There does not appear to be any national strategy to address issue of how best to be custodians of cultural heritage.
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Maid murdered
Another child in domestic service has been killed under circumstances that are by no means uncommon.
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Bad old habits
We stand to lose far more by negotiating in bad faith than New Delhi would. It is time to change our tactics.
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Missing the quota
No government in the last 30 years has done much to ameliorate the plight of the Baloch people.
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More than words, please
Nawaz govt doesn't appear to have stomach to crack down on tax evasion without which, closing budget gap is impossible
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Flight to safety?
General (retd) Musharraf’s latest health scare could be the convenient fig leaf for his unhindered departure.
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The right spectrum
Some experts have suggested that spectrum being auctioned should be widened to include 4G frequencies.
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Animal safety
Pakistan needs to implement laws on mistreatment of animals and fine zoos for neglect.
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Attack on a bus
Ending sectarianism is a task somewhat like removing poison from a vat of water into which it has been poured.
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A beacon of hope
The advent of Meesaq-e-Ilm elucidates that teachers in public education have the correct intentions.