opinion
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Farewell, Rehman Sahib
Harris Khalique
How do you dissolve that lump in your throat when you begin to write the obituary of I A Rehman? Possibly by first remembering what a wit he was. His puns and his ability to create humour from the...
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Thwarting Israeli provocations
Abdul Sattar
The cyber-attack on an Iranian nuclear facility may have created a ripple of excitement among the war-mongers sitting in the power corridors of Tel Aviv but has appalled many who believe in...
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Reading the gender report
Shaikh Abdul Rasheed
The 2021 Global Gender Gap Report disclosed by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday March 31, 2021 has placed Pakistan as the fourth worst country in the world in gender parity. The report put...
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Urban housing for the poor
Foqia Sadiq Khan
Provision of urban housing for the poor is a complex phenomenon. Most of the urban poor live in informal slums and face the day-to-day difficulties of navigating their relationship with the...
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Democracy in peril
S Qaisar Shareef
The last twelve months have seen unprecedented assaults on American democracy, starting with a sitting president claiming the only way he could lose was if there was major rigging of the...
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Shared future
Dorothy Grace Gurrero
COP26 is the most important climate summit since the landmark Paris Agreement was agreed at COP21 in 2015. Numerous components of the Paris Agreement have a 2020 deadline.The COP26 talks will be the...