opinion
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Spring and death
Kamila Hyat
Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poem about the strange sadness of spring holds true for Lahore. There is something especially dismal about seeing bright blue skies against which no kite flutters, no...
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Bleeding or benefiting each other?
Imtiaz Alam
A human disaster was averted as thousands of stranded Afghans and Pakistanis were allowed to cross the Torkham and Chaman border posts. These posts had remained closed for almost three weeks to stop...
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Why have the MDGs failed?
Dr Fauzia Waqar
The Millennium Development Goals – an idea of the UN – proved to be a historical moment for international development in 2000. Once the proposition received a positive response, 189 countries...
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Fourth-generation warfare
Raashid Wali Janjua
Is Pakistan in the throes of fourth-generation warfare? In order to answer this question and to understand the nature of that warfare one needs to trace its history. The term was first coined by a...
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A cost to the economy
Patricia Sabga
Pew Research estimates that there were around eight million undocumented workers in the US in 2014. That’s roughly 5 percent of the workforce. “Deporting 5 percent of the workforce would...
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Towards gender equality
Aban Marker Kabraji
Even though the past decades have seen huge changes in many communities for women, in terms of employment, there are still many women who simply cannot have a job away from their villages because of...