opinion
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The human right to family planning
Nadeem Iqbal
Despite the Supreme Court’s verdict in early January on the need to defuse the ticking population bomb, the prevailing confusion in our official policy on two-child families and birth-spacing...
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An end to inequality
Sarmad Khawaja
Inequality in our country is now a lot worse than it has ever been in our history. The need to reduce inequality has been enshrined in Article 38 and Article 38 of our constitution, and remains a...
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Protecting the eighteenth
Malaika Raza
For some time now, the conversation surrounding the eradication of the 18th Amendment has taken a turn for the worse in political and media fraternities.The new government seems to be in the mood to...
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The PSE black hole
Humayun Akhtar Khan
With public finance in disarray for decades, it is only right for the government to find ways to fill the gap between revenue and spending. One source of the deficit are public-sector enterprises ,...
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A trade of privacy
Sydney Li And Jason Kelley
In some ways, Google’s ‘research’ is not as bad as Facebook’s, and in other ways, it’s much worse. The ‘less worse’ parts: it’s not directly targeting teens, it didn’t...
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Taxing the rich
Paul Bachheit
There are many good reasons why Americans should be paying those taxes, and why there should be even higher taxes on the richest individuals and corporations. Of course, these arguments have...