opinion
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A country with secrets
Kamila Hyat
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor.We live in a country where secrets of various kinds lurk in the corners of our lives. There are secrets of life within households. We...
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Fairness and equity
Simone Tagliapietra
As a climate policy researcher, I am often asked: what is the biggest obstacle to decarbonisation? My answer has changed profoundly over the last couple of years. Before, I used to point to a...
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Bitcoin and the environment
Nauman Ahmad Bhatti
The year 2009 was declared by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration as the then second warmest year on record. The same year, the world’s first bitcoin was mined.Bitcoin is the...
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Wishful initiatives
Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qayyum
“The political dimensions of the dispute between India and Pakistan have long been centre-stage. This is not a conflict frozen in time. It is a conflict that has robbed millions of their basic...
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Search for the HEC head
Dr Javaid Laghari
The Higher Education Commission is the engine for the socio-economic development of Pakistan through human resource development and research. Its responsibilities include, among others, raising...
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Murdering minorities
Hamid Dabashi
In a bold and defiant recent book, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto , Suketu Mehta has written a deeply erudite defence of global migrants and refugees who roam the globe and make...