opinion
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Ansar Ali and the music of our times
Salaar Khan
The writer is a lawyer.We are told that as the Titanic sank, amidst the clamour that ruptured the placid night sky, two sounds stood out. First, the ringing of the watchtower bell – alerting the...
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Capitalist decline
Richard D Wolff
The United States’ recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were neither necessary nor successful in military terms. They did enable massive government spending and justified rising “defense”...
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Financial inclusion and women’s integration
Dr Shamshad Akhtar
Mao Zedong proclaimed that ‘women hold up half the sky’ but he forgot to recognize that we still live in a man’s world.Women’s empowerment through access to finance, jobs, education and...
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Undoing the HEC damage
Dr Javaid Laghari
Considerable damage has been done to higher education in the last three years because of the one-sided policies of the last chairperson, most of which were bulldozed through without taking any...
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Save the HEC
Adnan Rafiq
The Higher Education Commission Ordinance 2021, promulgated by the government last month, has severely dented the pro-youth and pro-reforms credentials of the ruling PTI.The PTI emerged as the...
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Football revolution
Ben Wray
On April 18, 12 of the most powerful football clubs from the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy announced that they were launching a European Super League , a new closed-shop competition. The founding...