opinion
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A South Asian trade utopia?
Dr Murad Ali
In April, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held informal meetings and vowed to reduce border tensions, referring to last year’s military standoff in the Doklam...
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The point is to change the system
Abdul Sattar
Another May Day was observed last week and a series of protests were held all over the world. Fragmented trade unions across the globe vowed to fight the ruthless and inhuman effects of capitalism....
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A ‘minor incident’
Anees Jillani
In Spain last month, hundreds of people protested against the sentence handed down by a court against the five young people of ‘La Manada’ or ‘the wolf pack’. People all over the Iberian...
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Economic reforms: Part-XX
Waqar Masood Khan
The failure of the wide-ranging tax reforms to raise the tax-to-GDP ratio during 2000-08 made the foundation of the economic achievements of the then military government fragile.This was so proved...
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Pakistan and GSP Plus
Yusuf H Shirazi
The General System of Preferences is a mechanism introduced by the European Union to grant non-reciprocal preferential treatment to imports from developing countries, without legally violating the...
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Gaza in 2018
David A Love
B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has urged Israeli soldiers to refuse to fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters. Meanwhile, a new Jewish-Arab movement called Standing Together started...