opinion
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Power to the girls
Harris Khalique
Side-effect The writer is a poet and author based in Islamabad. This is in continuation of the last point I made in the previous column. Boys will be boys unless they are not just socially...
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Will Fata change?
Ayaz Wazir
Why has Fata literally remained the ‘Federally Administered Tribal Areas’ for so long? What has prevented the government from mainstreaming Fata? Are just the people there responsible...
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A disturbing winter
Khayyam Mushir
It has been a disturbing week in the capital. Following the announcement by the Punjab government to shut down educational institutions in the wake of a sudden cold wave across the province, private...
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Poor priorities
Azam Khalil
Successive governments in this country have either failed to gauge the problems faced by the people or their approach has been causal towards the welfare of the masses. This has in turn created huge...
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Flawed justice
Imaan Mazari-Hazir
Bachal Mai, a married woman in Muzzafargarh, was raped by four persons – with panchayat backing. The police neither registered a case nor ordered a medical examination. This is just one of...
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Supporting the Syrians
HE Philip Barton
We are approaching the fifth anniversary of the start of the civil war in Syria. A quarter of a million lives have been lost in one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes of recent times. Eighteen...