opinion
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Roadmap to economic recovery [Part – IV]
Humayun Akhtar Khan
Recent news has kept us stirred up with the ups and downs of our deal with the IMF. We are at a stage where taking on debt, not for a project but to make ends meet, is reason to celebrate. It is...
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Manufacturing a policy
Touqir Hussain
The eagerness of the US to start, provoke or engage in wars is well known but what is not commonly known or understood are the reasons. The Russian aggression in Ukraine of course had to be...
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The TLP factor
Taha Ahmed Khan
As the dust starts to settle down after the NA-240 by-election, there emerge key takeaways for political observers to assess the ongoing trends in local Karachi politics that are metaphorically as...
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A political obituary
Abdul Sattar
It is widely believed that the Sharif brothers were a creation of the establishment, brought into politics to counter the Pakistan People’s Party in Punjab. The Sharifs received much patronage...
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Victims of inflation
Irene Ovonji-odida
Rampant inflation is a reminder that there are more and more of the working poor in the world's public services. Yet governments have the means to finance quality public services: the richest people...
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Closer to the edge
Cj Polychroniou
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine constitutes a crime of aggression under international law. Putin's regime launched an attack on a sovereign country that posed no direct threat to the Russian...