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  • New museums

    . Windows should be kept open for fresh air

  • To close schools or not

    There is a cloud over re-examinations for intermediate students, admission tests for universities and assessments

  • KCR revival

    Politicians and the common people have described the latest KCR revival as mere lollipop

  • Khadim Rizvi’s passing

    Rizvi’s legacy will be complex. His death leaves a void of sorts in the political far-right

  • Imran in Kabul

    As the PM reaffirmed, Pakistan is for a ‘peaceful, stable, united, democratic, sovereign and prosperous Afghanistan’

  • Madad chahti hai…

    After Modi came to power in 2014, rape and other crimes against women in India have increased manifold

  • ‘Charter of Pakistan’

    Instead of hitting the streets in protest it’s better for the opposition to adopt the mode of negotiations

  • Voting machines

    Most democracies actually avoid or have abandoned e-voting because of issues, along with additional privacy concerns

  • PSL takeaways

    The fifth edition of the league saw even better arrangements, keener players, closer contests, and bigger cash rewards

  • Availability of wheat seed

    Mere 6% of the total requirement for next season is available in the public sector and the rest is in private sector

  • Senate reforms

    As much as its defenders would try to label it as a democratic structure this is rarely the case

  • After the US vote

    Biden also faces the possibility of having a hostile Senat

  • ‘Rightsizing’ PIA

    PIA has long been in the red mainly due to being overstaffed

  • Economy: encouraging indicators

    Sustaining the economic momentum is the real challenge for the government

  • Corona waste

    There are reports of unscrupulous contractors stealing waste being produced in Covid-19 hospital wards

  • A historic precedent

    It is a welcome sign that G20 nations have struck a historic pact to restructure debt for low-income nations

  • G-B elections

    The ruling PTI did come out as the single largest party in G-B, but failed to achieve a simple majority of 12 seats

  • PM in Turbat

    Balochistan has long been licking wounds of neglect and underfunding by federation

  • Undeniable evidence

    There are other irrefutable proofs of India’s rogue activities that are aimed at destabilising peace in Pakistan

  • Rising cases of dog-bite

    Since 2019, thousands of dog-bite incidents have occurred in the province

  • Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal

    It is a miracle that the dispute was resolved relatively quickly

  • Deconstructing inequality

    Poverty has been rising and rising, and the rate of malnourishment has skyrocketed in recent years

  • Case for castration

    It is time to make rapists have the bitter aftertaste of their monstrous deeds

  • Covid-19: on the rise again

    A lockdown will spell an economic and social doom

  • Babar, the skipper

    A skipper should be an automatic choice, his selection must not be in doubt so that he does not become a liability

  • Tackling stunting

    In the country, now 38% children are stunted. This figure for Sindh is depressingly high at 50%

  • Billionaires in parliament

    More than half of the 12 self-admitted billionaires in the National Assembly are members of the ruling coalition

  • Biden and Afghanistan

    The good news is that this might not be a deal-breaker for the Taliban

  • Skewed subsidies

    The PM gave instructions to take steps for rationalsation of subsidies

  • Timely action

    The ‘Karachi incident’ had left the Sindh police force ‘demoralised and shocked’

  • Gandapur comments

    Gandapur needs to learn to keep his mouth shut until he learns how to conduct himself like a public servant

  • A potential vaccine

    Further testing is yet to reveal how long the immunity from the vaccine will last

  • To have or have not

    The government is taking measures to control prices

  • Black sheep in police

    It is heartening to note that the police are swiftly proceeding to weed out the black sheep from their own ranks

  • Politics of kindness

    Ardern won our hearts with her composed, empathetic response to the white supremacist terrorist attack

  • Cracks in PDM

    But again difference of opinion exists within the Maulana’s own party over Nawaz’s no holds barred rhetoric

  • Karachi: deplorable transport system

    It is about time that authorities worked to rebuild and redesign the transport system of Karachi piece by piece

  • President Joe Biden

    Trump refuses to accept the result and files lawsuits against it

  • Water pollution

    People have become so used to consuming unsafe water that now they might fall ill if they consumed safe water

  • Fresh Covid curbs

    The deadly virus first emerged in the country in February this year and hit a peak in mid-June

  • Value of life

    The Sindh Wildlife Department, along with police traced and arrested the man who manhandled the dolphin

  • Dialogue with EU

    Key human rights issues for the EU remain Pakistan's use of the death penalty and the “misuse” of the blasphemy law

  • Problem of a single story

    During the Vienna attack and other such earlier incidents, Muslims have helped save lives

  • Disgruntled allies

    However, the PM must realise that most of the demands put forward by his coalition partners are pretty genuine

  • Elitist of the elite

    Dar is calm and composed — one of the foremost traits of an umpire that enables him to handle pressure on the field

  • Virtual banking

    We would hope that new companies also offer innovative products rather than merely filling a void

  • Declining cotton output

    Pakistan’s import of cotton has steadily been increasing over the past decade

  • Fire safety laws

    We all aspire to utopia, but the prevailing situation shows that we are moving towards dystopia

  • Close race

    Things, however, seem to be happening just as Bernie Sanders had predicted

  • Rising dengue cases

    There is nothing surprising about this trend because in the beginning of winter season