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‘Deadliest’ week
The spoilers, however, seem to have hit the target.
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Colour prejudice
Prejudice of different kinds has prevailed in most human societies, with that based on skin colour being most notable
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Diplomatic dispute
Given that Raymond Davis incident is still alive in public memory, Pakistan was just acting cautiously, not illegally
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Fawad leaks
What made Fawad Chaudhry come up with a charge-sheet against his own party is anybody’s guess
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Elusive mass transit
However, the main reason for the delay in the project’s completion is lack of political will
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Legislative mockery
It is not often that you hear a politician call the residents of an entire city stupid
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Limited Hajj
This is going to be the first time in the known history that no foreigners will be able to travel to the holy land
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Typhoid in K-P
Politicians should stop playing politics in the name of coronavirus, typhoid or any other disease
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Mutating virus of match-fixing
Nothing unusual though, the gentlemen’s game is surrounded by allegations of wrong and unwelcome doings, of late
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Threat of urban flooding
A tug of war has long been going on particularly between the local governments of Karachi and Hyderabad
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K-P, Balochistan budgets
Significant belt-tightening brought on by the economic impact of Covid -19 and other revenue issues
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Don’t lose sight of Kashmir
We must stop these crimes from persisting at all costs
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Attacks on Rangers
The days of horror are long past when terror struck as a matter of routine in Pakistani cities
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Some closure at last
It is heartening to see there has been some measure of justice in a case that most of the world had long forgotten
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Justice Faez Isa case
SJC may again come into play in case a link is established between Justice Isa & foreign properties owned by his wife
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Circular debt surcharge?
Perhaps someone should call the Competition Commission
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Eat cake, if no bread!
People living near the collapsed building have been without water and power when heat is at its peak
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Convictions at last
The MQM founder already faces a separate terrorism case in Britain relating to an incendiary speech
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India at UNSC
India's election shows opposition to Pakistan’s stance that India does not qualify for the prestigious UNSC
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Shooting at hospital
The shooting incident at the hospital raises questions about security of physicians, patients and those working there
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Punjab, Sindh budgets
It is clear that one focuses on economic recovery from Covid-19, and the other on saving lives
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The number game
BNP-M’s exit has reduced the PTI-led ruling coalition’s strength in the National Assembly to 180 seats
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Digital birth registration
This will help citizens in the birth registration process at a time when the pandemic has restricted people’s movement
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The legend lives on
Tariq Aziz had been far ahead of a lot of poets and authors had he concentrated a little bit more on this side
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Plasma therapy
The entire society should join hands in motivating coronavirus survivors to donate their plasma
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India-China tensions
While the military didn’t admit it, Pakistan is directly in the fallout zone of this brewing nightmare
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Drive against ‘honour’ killing
We must not vilify these people and help them see that there is a better way to progress as a society
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Children and lockdown
We should learn to live without society and need help from experts
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Modi’s war hysteria
One way to do that is to start a new war, even a fake one, to distract from the lost cause
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Sacrificial animal markets
The prevailing confusion about cattle markets will likely affect both traders and intending buyers
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Drug shortage
After all, why would an expert know more than a random web page or an aspiring quack relative?
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On a rampage
Unfortunately, people are not as responsive as the situation warrants
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Freezing salaries and pensions
The denial of financial relief to govt employees and pensioners has come for scathing criticism from PPP and PML-N
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Testing kit breakthrough
One can only hope that these kits are used effectively rather than as another means of profit
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Not over till it’s over
All previous attempts to get the peace process off the ground have been derailed by one spoiler or the other
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UAE warning to Israel
UAE appeared willing to hold back at the oppression of Palestinians while it focused on its national security
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Package for medics
This all is but a small recognition of the selfless services being rendered by our valiant health practitioners
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A rolling budget?
The budget clearly makes an effort to keep the IMF programme afloat by setting a high revenue target
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State of railways
The government has lately been taking steps to put the railways back on the rails
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Debt relief
We still need to figure out how to come up with the money to repay them
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Social stigma and Covid-19
This is a dangerous situation but wholly avoidable because the survival rate for the coronavirus is 98%
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Juvenile’s death penalty
Arrested in 1998 in a murder case in Mandi Bahauddin
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Telecom report
Notes that on certain telecoms metrics, Pakistan lags behind its regional peers despite facing similar challenges
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WHO’s concern
As the rise in the number of Covid-19 cases around 5,000 a day over the last 10 days in Pakistan
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Kabul’s conspiracy theories
Ashraf Ghani and his allies have claim that the Taliban and ISIS are allies
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India, China hold talks to defuse border standoff, thin out some forces
China claims the territory to be its own and has objected to the Indian construction of roads in the area
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Sri Lanka delays general election for second time amid coronavirus fears
The country now has 1,859 confirm cases of Covid-19
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ADB approves $500m emergency loan for Pakistan
Money would help deliver social protection programmes to poor, expand health sector capabilities and create jobs
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Pakistan battles locusts by turning them into chicken feed
Prime Minister Imran Khan endorses plans to expand a pilot project in the bread-basket province of Punjab
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Iran reports more than 2,000 new virus cases
2,011 infections confirmed in the past 24 hours, raising Iran's overall caseload to 177,938






