opinion
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Reform, purpose and people
Mosharraf Zaidi
Why is the struggle for a better governed country going so badly? Why is Karachi still suffering steaming piles of garbage? Why are people being killed by the very police that are meant to protect...
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Political will for reform
Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri
The video footage of the police investigation, and the subsequent custodial death of Salahuddin, a mentally challenged person, has emotionally affected many Pakistanis.In the past one year, from the...
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Banning labour inspection
Khalid Bhatti
The PTI government in Punjab has imposed a ban on labour inspections, barring the labour department in the province from inspecting factories to check working conditions, safety and the...
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CPI and the policy rate
Waqar Masood Khan
The base of an index plays a critical role in its measurement. The longer a base is retained, the more distant it becomes from the start. This is all the more true when the index is based on weights...
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An imperfect system
S Qaisar Shareef
The nNext presidential election in the US is scheduled for November 2020, almost 14 months away. However, campaigning is already in full swing.The US is the oldest democracy in the world and...
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Battle for existence
Ron Jacobs
Author Christopher Ketcham opens his book ‘This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West’ with reminiscence.In the book’s second chapter, he gets specific....