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  • Baldiya Online

    App will especially facilitate overseas Pakistanis who face difficulties in registration of such important matters

  • To reopen schools or not

    We may have to swallow the bitter pill of keeping the schools closed for an indefinite period

  • Textile exports

    But it remains to be seen how long the demand for these items will remain high

  • Boat tragedy

    The seeds of evil bloom in the fields of negligence

  • Business of legislation

    Presidential ordinances promulgated by govt during its second year outnumbered the laws passed by NA

  • TTP regrouping?

    Even at the peak of terrorist activity, there was no real fear that our military could not snuff them out

  • Mother and child health

    United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gueterres has rightly said no woman and child should be allowed to die

  • Trump’s foreign policy

    Diplomacy is an art

  • Agreement with IPPs

    In the past, some would argue that this is because the major defaulters are in positions of power

  • Centre-Sindh consensus

    Now that the parties have decided to walk hand in hand, we believe Karachi's problems will soon be overcome

  • Naya Pakistan at two

    The government appears buoyed by a few recent successes, even though its overall performance is well below par

  • Disability quota

    The issue of the acceptability of PWDs at the workplace. It’s not our disabilities; it’s our abilities that count

  • BRT at last!

    The success of the four major bus services in major metropolises of Pakistan is for everyone to see

  • Of exams and results

    If the bureaucracy makes a mistake, the common people suffer its consequences

  • Celebratory fire

    Authorities need to get ever more vigilant on such joyous occasions

  • Students in anguish

    It is essential that they provide the students with the opportunity to appeal individually against unfair grading

  • After the vaccine

    That said it would be unfair to blame the entire phenomenon on ‘ill-informed masses’

  • Sindh vs Centre

    The civic infrastructure in Karachi has been left to crumble and things are getting worse

  • UAE-Israel deal

    The move is being touted by the signatories and many of their allies as a great leap forward

  • Burn after reading

    The safest option, therefore, remains to treat confidential information as confidential, and burn after reading

  • Pakistan at 73

    Pakistan is old enough to have learnt its lessons.

  • Science and tech neglect

    Pakistani engineers mostly get jobs in foreign countries

  • Premeditated?

    It was Maryam’s first public appearance after about five months

  • Russian vaccine

    Country has eleased no safety data about the vaccine

  • Local govt corruption

    Corruption in local councils and municipal bodies has long been rife. It needs to be curbed.

  • Chaman blast

    Frequency with which terrorists incidents have been happening in Balochistan can be viewed in the context of CPEC

  • Rains and floods

    Sindh and the country’s commercial capital of Karachi go underwater every time it rains

  • The cost of sin

    If there is one certainty about life, it is that it too will pass

  • Verdant Pakistan

    Pakistan is now counted among 10 countries in the world most vulnerable to effects of climate change

  • Prisoners’ release

    A deal would be critical in easing several security and socioeconomic problems created by the Afghan war

  • Violence against women

    Violence against women continues to grow in Pakistan

  • A declining nation

    Unfortunately, US suffers from a bigger crisis than the pandemic — the crisis of leadership.

  • Deforestation alert!

    150 major weather events have been reported across Pakistan from 1998 to 2018

  • All of God’s creatures

    Case of lions death has highlighted the abject regard we have for animals, especially the exotic kind

  • Police ‘misuse’ of power

    The police kill people who want to break the law and also when they themselves want to break the law

  • Historic ties

    Nothing should annoy a friend like Saudi Arabia with which our bilateral ties spans our entire existence as a nation

  • Prison reforms

    We hope that all these measures would go a long way in making prisons places of reform

  • Green signal for ML-1

    Higher speed trains will be a boon to trade and public transport

  • Worsening civic conditions

    The existing situation has exposed the hollowness of the promises made by Sind govt before Eidul Azha

  • Return to normalcy?

    The need for the people to follow SOPs and for authorities to ensure their implementation has grown

  • Kashmir at UNSC

    While UN is calling out India for its human rights record, India is conducting fresh abuses of its minorities

  • Heritage sites

    There are many colonial-era heritage buildings in Karachi and most of them are in a neglected state

  • Beirut explosion

    There may not have been a more sensitive time for Lebanon to see an explosion that may cost it $5b

  • Our new map

    But we must also look beyond words and maps

  • Austerity drive

    At the end of the day, the austerity measures should show concrete results and not exist on paper only

  • Kashmir: a year of lockdown

    One year on, Kashmiris have seen violence on the rise and their livelihoods destroyed

  • Trump’s vote delay call

    President Donald Trump is beginning a last-ditch effort to fully transition into a tinpot dictator

  • Dengue threat amid pandemic

    Our entire manpower and machinery has been focused on coronavirus prevention

  • Dual-national SAPMs

    Tania Aidrus and Dr Zafar Mirza's exit is not going to send a good signal in the efforts for reversing brain drain

  • Lead poisoning

    800 million children in the world carry five micrograms of toxic lead metal per decilitre in their blood streams