opinion
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Post-withdrawal Afghanistan
Muhammad Abdul Basit
On April 14, US President Joe Biden extended the utopian deadline of May 1st, 2021 for the American withdrawal from Afghanistan that was negotiated between the Trump administration and the...
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A voyage around the virus
Ghazi Salahuddin
It does become hard to make sense of one’s own feelings when personal grief is overlapped with a tragedy of historical proportions. And I have also to contend with a sudden burst of movement in my...
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Untangling the HEC’s timeline
Dr Ayesha Razzaque
All the problems of the higher education sector are being laid at the feet of the HEC management being pushed out before the end of its term, by means of another ill-advised and poorly thought...
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Crumbling healthcare
Abdul Majeed Abid
Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, proposed in the 1970s that eating large doses of vitamin C can cure the common cold.His hypothesis was not based on any empirical evidence but because...
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Political stability
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Economic growth depends on three things: accumulation of capital, human resources and technological advancement. Capital – including foreign direct investment – accumulates where there’s...
