opinion
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Mantra of inclusive development
Dr Karim Khan
A country’s budget, in addition to estimating annual revenues and expenses, provides an opportunity to uplift the well-being of the people through fiscal management.On June 11, the current...
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The new cold war (Part – I)
Nauman Ahmad Bhatti
In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill said, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” This marked the beginning of the decades-long...
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Betraying Fata reforms
Malik Khalil
The introduction of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Alternative Dispute Resolution Act 2020 in the former Fata districts has intensified the debate on Fata’s reforms, which were initiated three years ago...
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A force for knowledge
Atta-ur-Rahman
The Knowledge Economy Task Force chaired by the prime minister had its first meeting in January 2019 when the roadmap presented by me in my capacity as vice chairman was approved.This envisaged...
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Reading the reality
S Qaisar Shareef
After 20 years of conflict and nation-building efforts, the US is now on its way out of Afghanistan. With the shutting down of the US military base at Bagram, the deal is more or less done. A war...
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Endless suffering
Muhammad Jihad Ismael
My family and I – my wife, our young son, our elders, and the twin baby girls who will be born to us this week – ask the world to hear the conditions of our lives here in Deir el Balah, after 14...