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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
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Electoral upset in Malaysia
Malaysia and Pakistan- the two countries are very different though both Muslim-majority
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Bombers redux
We report that once again girls’ schools in the North Waziristan agency have been attacked
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A broken pact
The torrent unleashed by Trump’s decision will take some time to subside
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Incarceration beyond capacity
Speedy delivery of justice should be adopted
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Reducing the porosity
Pakistan is a safer place today as a result of these efforts
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Slippery customers
It is difficult to find much by way of sympathy for the non-filers.
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Keeping it sweet
Pakistan’s antitrust regulator has proposed a set of measures to overhaul the sugar industry
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Schmoozing the bear
The swing towards Russia has also to be seen in the context of the Pakistan relationship with Saudi Arabia
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Dreadful consequences
The winner in that event were the extremists who in reality held the reins the minute they sat down
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Blue-sky education
Construction of a metro-bus system is a mere mote in the eye, inconsequential
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Reforms and clocks
None of the detainees were ever presented before a court
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Reconfiguring not required
Rouhani promised also to counter any decision the US leader intended to take against Iran
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Triangular interests
Kabul has suffered major terrorist attacks as has Pakistan, the most recent one being in Attock
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The roster of death
Miners are risking both life and limb as they perform their daily tasks
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CPEC as part of national agenda
In the past, the federal government had been quick to shoot down any suggestion of a thorough assessment
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A cautious optimism
Almost 30kms of the Afghan border has been fenced to attempt to stop unauthorised cross-border movements