opinion
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The fault is in the system
Dr Manzoor Ali Isran
The writer works as professor in thedepartment of management sciences at SZABIST, Karachi.The Covid-19 pandemic is relentless. It does not recognise cast, colour, class, age and region. It is...
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The reopen fanatics
Juan Cole
Roughly 1,264,000 US soldiers have died in all the wars this country has ever fought. A new simulation by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School predicts that if all the states completely...
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A ferocious enemy
Atta-ur-Rahman
Never before in our history have we witnessed an enemy such as this. The invisible enemy is a tiny molecular ball with spikes protruding from it. It is these spikes that get attached to human cells,...
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Democracy in a pandemic
Fahd Humayun
Pakistan still has a long way to go in the fight against Covid-19, with almost 20,000 confirmed cases, and doctors and hospitals facing a harrowing shortage of testing kits and PPEs.The downstream...
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Covid-19 and us
Sultan Muhammad Khan
Did we think that something like this could never hit us? Were we so sure that a pandemic like this, which by the way is a once-in-a-century occurrence, would not happen in our lifetimes?Was this...
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Hazrat Ali’s wisdom
Farhan Bokhari
The advent of the holy month of Ramazan this year has brought a period of a dramatic change for Muslims worldwide. With the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, country after country has witnessed a...