opinion
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Accountability and policies - Part II
Dr Naazir Mahmood
The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.In the previous part of this series we discussed how a policy can be disastrous if it has no accountability...
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Weapon of memory
Ramzy Baroud
On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites all Palestinians,...
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The tobacco narrative
Munazza Siddiqui
The Covid-19 pandemic is changing the world in ways that were imaginable only in the realm of science fiction. The economic order of things is shifting fast for a lot of countries, especially the...
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Understanding the NFC
Barrister Zamir Ghumro
Distribution of tax revenue between the federal government and the provinces is based on a simple formula under the 1973 constitution. It has deliberately been problematized by the centre to serve...
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Balancing the budget
Dr Khaqan Hassan Najeeb
Many think this should be a corona budget. Maybe it is more than that – a survival budget for the millions of citizens and businesses who need a lending hand.The pre-Covid-19 economy was saddled...
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Ramazan blessings
Dr A Q Khan
Most of us are aware of the benefits and blessings of fasting during Ramazan. A Japanese Nobel Prize winner won this coveted prize for finding out that when a sick person is hungry, his healthy...