opinion
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Scrambling for influence
Amanat Ali Chaudhry
The writer, a Chevening scholar, studied International Journalism at the University of Sussex.The busting of India’s vast clandestine disinformation network by EU DisinfoLab earlier this year was...
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Sanctions in the contemporary cold war
Tamseel Aqdas
From 1947 till 1991, the world experienced the ‘cold war’. Under this notion, states were apportioned into two distinct categories in accordance with their social and economic ideological...
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The perfect victim
Rida Hosain
“I wanted to take the idea of a ‘perfect victim’ and tear it to shreds. Too often, society will only feel sorry for victims of rape if they conform to a certain ideal – we don’t tend to...
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Flawed reforms
Arbab Usman
The PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been claiming reforms in major sectors like education, health, and the police since taking charge of the provincial government in 2013. However, the...
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Roots
Yahya Ali
Roots can be defined in multiple ways by multiple people. If you ask a botanist, they will tell you that roots are the organs of a plant that constantly provide water and minerals to the stem and...
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A health crisis
Cara Cook
While the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the globe, fossil fuels continued to burn. Coal plants continued to poison communities–particularly low-income communities and communities of color – with...