opinion
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Academic corruption
Dr Ayesha Razzaque
Journal mafias, fixed peer-review processes, gift authorships, paid authorships, coerced authorships by misuse of authority and many other forms of corruption are now deeply entrenched in...
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Looking for the black cat
Dr Naazir Mahmood
It is not often that a column elicits such a response as ‘On reading’ did last week. There was a steady stream of emails and messages – from abroad and Pakistan – that poured into my inbox....
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Ending poverty, ensuring health
Dr Sania Nishtar
As the latest increase in cases of Covid-19 appear to be dropping and vaccines, which are key to us and the world to get through the acute stage of this pandemic, continue to be rolled out across...
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Education emergency
Atta-ur-Rahman
Natural resources have diminishing importance and it is the quality of our human resources that will determine our future.
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Reckoning with history
S Qaisar Shareef
Last week, US President Joe Biden visited Tulsa, Oklahoma to publicly acknowledge the 100th anniversary of one of the worst massacres of Americans of African descent in US history.On May 31st a...
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Empty rhetoric
Lawrence Moss
Words alone have failed to persuade the Myanmar military to stop killing and jailing its civilian opponents. Both the United Nations Security Council and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...