opinion
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Pakistan in 2020 - Part I
Dr Ayesha Razzaque
The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University.When I think of the daily circus that is the evening TV political talk...
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Measuring the effects
Alaa Tartir
The continuing demolitions in Wadi Hummus, and most recently the case of Khirbet Humsa, underline the need to create additional tools to put at the disposal of Palestinians to better record and then...
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Global finance and corruption
Ahsan Jehangir Khan
The US has listed Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan as huge money-laundering jurisdictions in the Basel AML Index. The index ranks money laundering and terrorist financing risks around the...
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Prisoners in a pandemic
Michelle Shahid
Prisons and jails are amplifiers of infectious diseases and the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic is no different.According to a recent report of the commission constituted under the directions of...
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Moving beyond the ‘seth’
Nadeem Ul Haque
When it comes to economic policy in Pakistan, the refrain is ‘we must build our industry, we need more manufacturing!’Just because Europe developed on manufacturing, and it was the early advice...
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Time to leave
Andrew Bacevich
According to the New York Times on Monday, the number of troops in Afghanistan would be halved from its current level of 4,500.The legacy of the war in Afghanistan for Americans and for Afghans is...