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  • Our Covid response

    Our medical response to Covid-19 has resulted in improved and expanded healthcare facilities in the country

  • Old habits die hard

    The media played a commendable role in convincing people of the need for discarding the hated plastic bags

  • Coral bleaching threat

    The WWF-Pakistan has reported coral bleaching in some areas of Churna Island

  • Chaos in education

    There are reports that principals of many colleges in Karachi have been deprived of financial powers

  • ‘Love Jihad’

    The Love Jihad angle has been pushed by fringe and mainstream Hindu supremacist groups alike, including the ruling BJP

  • Karachi Transformation Plan

    The two parties will have to rise above their political interests and complement each other’s efforts

  • Shining a light on SHEros

    They are women heroes who have done something remarkable and fought back against violence or social taboos

  • Covid-19 and precautions

    Expecting shops to open so early in the cold weather is unrealistic

  • Imran at WEF

    Pakistan remains a country where even the best of ideas is bound to fail because financing terms are impossible to get

  • Face mask use

    Face mask is nearly completely ignored — rather spurned

  • Rape: harsher penalties

    The most audacious penalty suggested, however, is chemical castration

  • Rise in smuggling

    Measures taken by the present government have brought about a slight decline in smuggling

  • Menace of quackery

    Fake physicians have become so bold that now they are treating even coronavirus patients

  • Unbundling plan

    Allowing private competition on the lines may help improve service quality and utilisation while lowering prices

  • Protests in G-B

    Why can’t we carry out meaningful election reform, enabling us to put the rigging allegations to rest?

  • Killing for practice

    These crimes continued for years, and we would not be surprised if the actual kill count is much higher

  • ‘Olive tsunami’ project

    Olive oil is like the good old nine oils — a panacea for nearly everything that ails man

  • Politicising the virus

    Govt appears in a rush to put Covid measures in place — in a sharp contrast to how they went about in late February

  • Overseas job loss fears

    The report says that around 50,000 Pakistani migrants have already suffered layoffs in different countries

  • Intellectual strength

    With the world embroiled in multiple crises it is vital for countries to hone their intellectual, academic capacities

  • Driving away from ‘Digital Pakistan’

    Talent is nothing if it is not allowed to flourish. One hopes that sense will at some point prevail, for our own sake

  • 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