opinion
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Protecting future generations
Hassan Hakeem
The writer is a development specialist with expertise in parliamentary oversight and sustainable development.During last month’s Saarc teleconference, regional stakeholders stressed the need to...
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Any change?
Walden Bello
In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging. One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary measures, but the basic structure of production...
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Pandemics and poverty
Dr Manzoor Ali Isran
Most pandemics are natural and begin with pathogens leaping from wild or domesticated animals to humans, in what is called a ‘zoonotic spark’.Mostly, such pathogens originate in Central Africa,...
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Citizen apathy
Themrise Khan
The UK has recently been receiving a lot of criticism for the revised slogan ‘Stay Alert, Save Lives’, a flip from the ‘Stay Home, Save Lives’ slogan they originally adhered to.People in the...
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Esso Peas
Naeem Sadiq
Pakistanis and peas go back a long way. Earliest archaeological finds confirm that peas were popular with the people of the Harappan civilization some 4500 years ago.Harappans grew numerous...
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Understanding Kashmiris
Tony Ashai
Since India unilaterally revoked Kashmir’s autonomy and divide the state into two parts on August 5, 2019, Kashmir has been in the news almost in all major newspapers and news channels. While many...