opinion
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Creating ten million jobs
Dr Imran Batada
The writer is director of the Centre for Information and Communication Technology at IBA.Education in Pakistan is still relegated to the older system. While there has been substantial development...
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Human security
Adam Parsons And Sonja Scherndl
Global military spending continued to reach record levels in 2020, rising almost 4 percent in real terms to US$1.83 trillion, even despite the severe economic contractions caused by the pandemic....
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Investigate the petroleum losses
Muhammad Ijaz-ul-haq
The decision of the prime minister to remove SAPM for Petroleum Nadeem Babar and Secretary Petroleum Asad Hayauddin from their posts for losses caused to the exchequer in the petrol scandal is to be...
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Anti-torture law
Syeda Shehrbano
Pakistan became a signatory to the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in April 2008 and ratified it in June 2010 with certain reservations...
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Remembering Z A Bhutto
Bashir Riaz
This year marks 42 years since the judicial killing of the founder of the Pakistan People’s Party, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto – a truly charismatic and popular leader whose legacy of politics for the...
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PDM: a personal perspective
Ali Kasim Gilani
In November last year, I was inside a prison cell in Multan Jail, deprived of food and sleep and not knowing the precise charges against me, yet feeling confident and upbeat. I knew my offence:...
