opinion
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The Indus Basin and our water crisis
Amir Hussain
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development organized a stakeholders’ conference for the Pakistan chapter of the Upper Indus Basin Network last week in Islamabad.This two-day...
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Maternity protection in Pakistan
Iftikhar Ahmad
More than 100 years ago, the International Labor Organization adopted the Maternity Protection Convention 1919 suggesting 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, free healthcare during and after...
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Senate and the acquittal
Nick Licata
The Senate’s acquittal of President Donald Trump could flip the Senate to the Democrats. That is because swing voters could be more negatively influenced by the Republican’s Senate trial than...
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Unequal societies
Sam Pizzigati
Irrelevance can sometimes be liberating, and, at the United Nations in New York, folks have been feeling fairly irrelevant for quite some time now.Decades ago, debates on the UN General Assembly...
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Challenge through law
Foqia Sadiq Khan
To paraphrase historian Ayesha Jalal on the strategy used by Asma Jahangir to fight oppression and promote human rights; she used the power of law.In other words, according to Professor Jalal, Asma...
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Impossible conditions
Jonathan Cook
Maybe something good will come out of the Trump plan, after all. By pushing the Middle East peace process to its logical conclusion, Donald Trump has made crystal clear something that was supposed...