opinion
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Cleaning up the budget
Abid Hasan
The writer is a former adviser to the World Bank.Pakistan’s corona-related ‘lives and livelihood’ crisis is grave. One was hoping that the prime minister would make a clarion call, during the...
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Unpolicing the world
Binoy Kampmark
Donald Trump claims to be the law-and-order president of the United States. There does not seem much sign of this as the stitching of the Republic gets undone.Protesters have been given a...
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Where do the people really stand?
Kamila Hyat
For months, we have been hearing Prime Minister Imran Khan insist that it was impossible to impose a lockdown to curb the increasingly rapid spread of the coronavirus and the over 2,650 deaths that...
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A lack of vision
Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qayyum
It is a well known fact that the economic policy of any country has two essential facets. The first pertains to the monetary policy and the second deals with the fiscal policy.The budget is a policy...
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America in turmoil
S Qaisar Shareef
Over the last two weeks many US cities have seen large protests that were sparked by the killing of an unarmed black man at the hands of police in Minneapolis. These protests have continued to grow,...
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Resisting the virus
Abdul Basit
Due to the PTI government's mishandling, the Covid-19 situation in Pakistan has gone from bad to worse.From "the coronavirus is a flu that spreads quickly" to "people are neither taking it...