opinion
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The 2020 report card
Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri
The writer heads the Sustainable Development Policy Institute.A government’s performance at the end of a calendar year is usually measured in numbers – particularly the data about macro-economic...
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The way forward
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
This year, this global pandemic has us on our knees at the same time. Whether in prayer or surrender, we’re all calling on the goodness of each other, on a greater power outside of us and within...
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Getting to grips with governance
Kamila Hyat
Given the state of the country, and the amount of chaos that runs through it, we wonder if any government would be able to solve the problems that are faced without a long, consistent policy in...
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Jinnah’s house is burning
Engineer Khurram Dastgir-Khan
Declan Walsh’s ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan’ augments a veritable genre – books on our embattled homeland by anglophone Western journalists. A layered title, unique biographical approach, and...
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2020’s threat landscape
Abdul Basit
In the last five years, Pakistan has remarkably turned around its fight against the twin threats of extremism and terrorism. The Global Terrorism Index 2020 also acknowledged this fact.As per GTI...
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Bean counting
M Zeb Khan
Every time one listens to a minister or reads a news story about what the government is doing and how well it is doing, one is only stuffed with some financial numbers going in and out of the...