opinion
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Countering violence against women
Dr Naazir Mahmood
Though there is a perceptible shift in mood after every act of violence we get to know about, the recent incidents of violence against women in this country have sparked fury – and rightly so....
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Missing the boat
Sajjad Hussain Changezi
Balochistan has traditionally stood next to the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas across all human development indices and rankings.According to the Pakistan National Human Development...
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The rise of China
Muhammad Abdul Basit
Chinese President Xi Jinping. File photoNapoleon Bonaparte once noted, “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes up, the world will shake”. His prophecy has seemingly come...
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The new abnormal
M Zeb Khan
Some universities around the globe had put in place strategic plans to capitalise on ICT and make a gradual shift to online education prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.Back then, they had planned to...
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The calamity of Covid-19
Patrick Gathara
Last year, American billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, was roundly condemned by many for peddling racist stereotypes of African helplessness after he warned that the...
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Executive power
Melvin J Medina
In most states, governors have the unilateral power to liberate people from incarceration or the sentence of supervision with a stroke of their pen. A governor can save people from a sentence of...