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Baldiya Online
App will especially facilitate overseas Pakistanis who face difficulties in registration of such important matters
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To reopen schools or not
We may have to swallow the bitter pill of keeping the schools closed for an indefinite period
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Textile exports
But it remains to be seen how long the demand for these items will remain high
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Boat tragedy
The seeds of evil bloom in the fields of negligence
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Business of legislation
Presidential ordinances promulgated by govt during its second year outnumbered the laws passed by NA
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TTP regrouping?
Even at the peak of terrorist activity, there was no real fear that our military could not snuff them out
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Mother and child health
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gueterres has rightly said no woman and child should be allowed to die
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Trump’s foreign policy
Diplomacy is an art
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Agreement with IPPs
In the past, some would argue that this is because the major defaulters are in positions of power
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Centre-Sindh consensus
Now that the parties have decided to walk hand in hand, we believe Karachi's problems will soon be overcome
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Naya Pakistan at two
The government appears buoyed by a few recent successes, even though its overall performance is well below par
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Disability quota
The issue of the acceptability of PWDs at the workplace. It’s not our disabilities; it’s our abilities that count
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BRT at last!
The success of the four major bus services in major metropolises of Pakistan is for everyone to see
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Of exams and results
If the bureaucracy makes a mistake, the common people suffer its consequences
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Celebratory fire
Authorities need to get ever more vigilant on such joyous occasions
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Students in anguish
It is essential that they provide the students with the opportunity to appeal individually against unfair grading
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After the vaccine
That said it would be unfair to blame the entire phenomenon on ‘ill-informed masses’
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Sindh vs Centre
The civic infrastructure in Karachi has been left to crumble and things are getting worse
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UAE-Israel deal
The move is being touted by the signatories and many of their allies as a great leap forward
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Burn after reading
The safest option, therefore, remains to treat confidential information as confidential, and burn after reading
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Pakistan at 73
Pakistan is old enough to have learnt its lessons.
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Science and tech neglect
Pakistani engineers mostly get jobs in foreign countries
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Premeditated?
It was Maryam’s first public appearance after about five months
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Russian vaccine
Country has eleased no safety data about the vaccine
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Local govt corruption
Corruption in local councils and municipal bodies has long been rife. It needs to be curbed.
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Chaman blast
Frequency with which terrorists incidents have been happening in Balochistan can be viewed in the context of CPEC
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Rains and floods
Sindh and the country’s commercial capital of Karachi go underwater every time it rains
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The cost of sin
If there is one certainty about life, it is that it too will pass
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Verdant Pakistan
Pakistan is now counted among 10 countries in the world most vulnerable to effects of climate change
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Prisoners’ release
A deal would be critical in easing several security and socioeconomic problems created by the Afghan war
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Violence against women
Violence against women continues to grow in Pakistan
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A declining nation
Unfortunately, US suffers from a bigger crisis than the pandemic — the crisis of leadership.
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Deforestation alert!
150 major weather events have been reported across Pakistan from 1998 to 2018
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All of God’s creatures
Case of lions death has highlighted the abject regard we have for animals, especially the exotic kind
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Police ‘misuse’ of power
The police kill people who want to break the law and also when they themselves want to break the law
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Historic ties
Nothing should annoy a friend like Saudi Arabia with which our bilateral ties spans our entire existence as a nation
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Prison reforms
We hope that all these measures would go a long way in making prisons places of reform
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Green signal for ML-1
Higher speed trains will be a boon to trade and public transport
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Worsening civic conditions
The existing situation has exposed the hollowness of the promises made by Sind govt before Eidul Azha
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Return to normalcy?
The need for the people to follow SOPs and for authorities to ensure their implementation has grown
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Kashmir at UNSC
While UN is calling out India for its human rights record, India is conducting fresh abuses of its minorities
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Heritage sites
There are many colonial-era heritage buildings in Karachi and most of them are in a neglected state
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Beirut explosion
There may not have been a more sensitive time for Lebanon to see an explosion that may cost it $5b
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Our new map
But we must also look beyond words and maps
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Austerity drive
At the end of the day, the austerity measures should show concrete results and not exist on paper only
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Kashmir: a year of lockdown
One year on, Kashmiris have seen violence on the rise and their livelihoods destroyed
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Trump’s vote delay call
President Donald Trump is beginning a last-ditch effort to fully transition into a tinpot dictator
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Dengue threat amid pandemic
Our entire manpower and machinery has been focused on coronavirus prevention
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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
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Lead poisoning
800 million children in the world carry five micrograms of toxic lead metal per decilitre in their blood streams