opinion
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The invisible wealth of the rich
Shahid Mehmood
In 2007, an engineer managed to extract confidential documents from the system of a bank. The data contained eye-popping details of 30,000 wealthy individuals around the world who had managed to...
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Challenges to non-proliferation
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Permanent Envoy of Pakistan at the UN Maleeha Lodhi spoke at the UNSC debate on ‘Global efforts to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by non-state actors’ on June...
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The imminent catastrophe
Abdul Sattar
In a recent interview, Jack Ma, the Asian billionaire and founder of Alibaba, has opined that the third world war is likely to erupt due to technological advancements. The Chinese billionaire...
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Strangulating Al-Jazeera
Murtaza Shibli
Fifth column The unending siege of Qatar, which started in the middle of the holy month of Ramazan, continues unabated sans any hope for an easy and early settlement. The powerful blocs of the Gulf...
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When scarcity strikes
Samar Quddus
Water is a basic necessity of life. Since access to water has been recognised as a human right, the obligation to provide clean and safe drinking water across the globe has fallen on various...
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Travel ban
Maha Hilal
I’m a US citizen. I’m also Muslim. And the Supreme Court decision on the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban scares me. In a June 26 ruling,...