opinion
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Culmination point
Syed Talat Hussain
Nawaz Sharif is facing his ultimate moment of truth – a do-or-die situation, of the sort that he has never witnessed in his tumultuous career. But he is not the only one. His brother and now the...
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Privacy problem
Ed Markey
The United States has a privacy problem. Sensitive consumer data are everywhere, and they are vulnerable. Just this year, we learned that two billion Facebook users’ information was harvested by...
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The menace of malnutrition
Dr Salman Shah
History serves as a testament to the fact that the greatest contributor to the wealth, prosperity and development of a nation isn’t its natural resources but the stock of its brain power.Nurturing...
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When the taps run dry
Ahmad Mujtaba Khan
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources released a warning in May regarding the national water crisis. This has raised consternation among concerned citizens.At this stage, Pakistan is...
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Theories of evolution
Dr A Q Khan
In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin proposed a theory of biological evolution in his book ‘On the Origin of Species’. This later became known as the Darwinian Theory and originally...
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A Pak-Afghan water treaty?
Mashhood Hassan Azam Awan
The Indus River Basin is shared by four countries: Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and China. The water sector in this region faces certain challenges including the depletion of natural resources and...