opinion
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Poverty and social protection
Amir Hussain
Last week I met with some senior officials of an international financial institution at the Cabinet Division in Islamabad. We discussed, at length, some core issues related to poverty alleviation...
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Lives cut apart
Kamila Hyat
We live segmented lives. Those in one major city are increasingly less concerned about events in another and the same is true across provinces and even regions.The proof of this comes in the...
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Integrated rural development
Dr M Sadiq Malik
Rural development is an indivisible and continuous process starting with agricultural development. But to be successful, it must simultaneously go beyond agricultural development and reach the...
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Bio-fuels and our exports
Syed Akhtar Ali
Pakistan’s current account deficit has created many problems for the economy. The country’s major imports are from the oil sector. There is a misplaced notion that nothing can be done about...
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The slumlords’ peace
Ismail Khalidi
We Palestinians thought we had it bad the past 25 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords under the reign of American and Israeli technocrats and “security experts”. And with good...
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No information
John LaForge
The Trump administration has halted, without explanation, the routine practice of reporting the current number of nuclear weapons in the US arsenal, the AP and United Press International report. The...