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	<title>The News International - <![CDATA[Opinion]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Insurance canary]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Extreme weather caused major damage at Lower Grand Lagoon.&mdash; X/JayLesykWXAs the cost of insuring our houses escalates around the United States and the world, it appears that property insurance is acting like a canary in a coal mine.Canaries used to be taken into coal mines because they served...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The future of work]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Employees work on the production line of humanoid robots at the AgiBot factory in Shanghai, China March 20, 2025. &mdash; Reuters Internal Amazon documents reveal plans to replace more than half a million warehouse workers with robots by 2033. Executives call it innovation. Investors call it...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bluewashing]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The image shows a label for an OceanSafe certified product. &mdash; Innovation in Textile website/FileThe personal care industry has mastered the art of marketing eco-consciousness &ndash; evolving beyond familiar labels like &ldquo;green,&rdquo; &ldquo;clean,&rdquo; and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The price of disorder]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A major traffic jam clogs Sharea Faisal, causing severe disruption for commuters in the metropolitan city of Karachi on May 5, 2025. &mdash; APP Pakistan&rsquo;s roads reflect the broader dysfunction of its governance system: disorganised, improvised and reactive. Every few months, a new...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Transform the system]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A Pakistani flag flutters over iron scaffoldings as a labourer works at a construction site on the eve of Pakistan's Independence Day celebrations, in Lahore on August 13, 2025. &mdash; ReutersAfter 78 years of independence, if we take stock of where we were and how far we have travelled, no one...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Education in the negative space]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows girls attending a class at a school in Lahore. &mdash; AFP/FileIn 2006, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego hosted a conference. Among the speakers was Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium.During one of his presentations, he...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Censorship rules]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A member of the white nationalist group NatSoc Florida protests against U.S. support for Israel, in response to the war between Israel and Hamas, in Lady Lake, Florida, US, October 21, 2023. &mdash; Reuters/File Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Overvalued stocks]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows a man pointing at a computer screen showing stock information in this illustration photo taken in Bordeaux, France, March 30, 2016. &mdash; Reuters/FileIn an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Arbitrating the space]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[A satellite model is placed on a picture of Earth in this illustration taken November 25, 2024.   &mdash; Reuters/FileOuter space is no longer a silent frontier of exploration. It is rapidly transforming into a bustling commercial domain, where private enterprise has joined states in advancing...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fix the water system]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows a canal in Pakistan. &mdash; APP/FilePakistan speaks often of agricultural transformation, new seeds, climate-smart technologies, value chains, mechanisation and digital extension. But every plan rests on a fragile assumption: that water will simply continue to...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Article 140-A must evolve]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore  building. &mdash; MCL/File The Punjab Assembly&rsquo;s recent resolution to amend Article 140-A offers Pakistan a rare constitutional opening to rebuild democracy from the ground up.The amendment, if expanded to include...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[A COP30 agenda for Pakistan]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[This view shows the COP30 logotype at Docks Station in Belem, Para state, Brazil on October 24, 2025. &mdash; AFPPakistan&rsquo;s narrative at COP30 should begin with a simple premise that is both moral and practical: countries that contributed least to the crisis must not be asked to finance...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Life-genocide balance]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Palestinians in Gaza city inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike, 9 October 2023. &mdash; AFPIt has been more than a month since a &ldquo;ceasefire&rdquo; took hold in Gaza. That, of course, does not mean that the killing of Palestinians has stopped. It simply means that it has been...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Safety is a right]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Representational image of workplace harassment. &mdash; Educaloi.cq.ca/FileThe rising tide of harassment and assault against girls and women in Pakistan&rsquo;s universities, workplaces and public spaces is not a series of isolated tragedies. It reflects a system that continues to fail half its...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keeping hope at 1.5]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other delegates attending the Belem Climate Summit ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference  raise hands as they pose for a family photo, in Belem, Brazil, November 7, 2025. &mdash;...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pragmatism over polarity]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Pakistan and US flags flutter in New York. &mdash; AFP/FileWhen Pakistan&rsquo;s first shipment of rare earth minerals quietly departed for the US in October, it drew immediate attention across Asian commentary circles. Some in China saw betrayal, others in Washington viewed it as an...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Economic fallout]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image of a judge's gavel. &mdash; APP FilePakistan stands today at a moment where questions of power, law and governance are no longer confined to constitutional commentary or political theatrics. They now cut directly to the core of whether the economy stabilises, investment...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wrong court, real crisis]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The image features a red and white "PENDING" stamp over a stack of old, tied file folders, symbolizing a backlog of unresolved court cases. &mdash; The News/FileAs of the end of last year, Pakistan&rsquo;s courts were sitting on roughly 2.3 million unresolved cases. Nearly 83 per cent were pending...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Erasure of history]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[A Palestinian child holds a piece of wood with the rubble of destroyed buildings in the background, during sunset, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, November 6, 2025. &mdash; ReutersIsrael&rsquo;s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Declaration to dispossession]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Palestinian boys wave their national flag as demonstrators clash with Israeli soldiers during a protest in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on October 18, 2023. &mdash; AFPThe phrasing of the Balfour agreement, a classic colonial document, implied that the majority Palestinian population had no...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Zohran promise]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani names Dean Fuleihan as his first deputy mayor and Elle Bisgaard-Church as his chief of staff during a press conference at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York City, US, November 10, 2025. &mdash; ReutersThe victory of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Water under siege]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[A view of Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power Project, on the Chenab river which flows from IIOJK into Pakistan, at Chanderkote in Jammu region on May 6, 2025. &mdash; ReutersWhen India announced earlier this year that it was &lsquo;suspending&rsquo; the Indus Waters Treaty ,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The PFM test]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[This representational image shows two persons can be seen holding notes of Pakistani currency Rupee in their hands. &mdash; AFP/FileTransparency and accountability are the bedrock of any credible public financial system. They determine not only whether government resources are used wisely, but...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Coming down from the mountain]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[An aerial view of Parachinar city in Kurram district. &mdash; Facebook/ Parachinar View/File  The Kurram Agency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is in the news primarily on account of a spike in the TTP&rsquo;s wanton attacks against law enforcement cadres. In this atmosphere of sadness, it is...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bringing peace to Gaza?]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A Palestinian child holds a piece of wood with the rubble of destroyed buildings in the background, during sunset, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, November 6, 2025. &mdash; Reuters On the occasion of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Muslim...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Myth vs reality]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[This undated image shows armed forces soldiers march past during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad. &mdash; AFPMyth number 1: Article 243 equals &lsquo;army rule&rsquo;. Reality: The army is the largest service in Pakistan&rsquo;s threat environment. That is geography, not conspiracy. Yes,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hope at Belem]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[Federal Police officers reinforce security during the UN Climate Change Conference , in Belem, Brazil, November 14, 2025. &mdash; Reuters Hope for climate action seems to be the biggest casualty as COP30 starts. The last year has seen multilateralism pushed back, with a withering of the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The missing $60 billion]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[A person enters the building of the World Bank Group, in Washington, United States. &mdash; AFP/FileIn a hard-hitting policy advisory, the World Bank has laid bare what Pakistan&rsquo;s policymakers have long known but seldom acted upon: that the country&rsquo;s export malaise is not merely a...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lost and found in the USA]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[General view of the downtown of Los Angeles, California, US, July 12, 2023. &mdash; ReutersThere are days when you become more acutely alive, when you feel emotionally overwhelmed. This may happen on landmark occasions in your life, such as weddings and anniversaries. Also, when you travel and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Red flag warning]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[View of an iceberg on Half Moon island, Antarctica on November 9, 2019. &mdash;AFPAntarctica has moved to &ldquo;the front of the line&rdquo; as a global warming threat that&rsquo;s already well beyond expectations, and it&rsquo;s happening fast. Based upon statements by polar scientists over the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Climate action]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[This view shows the COP30 logotype at Docks Station in Belem, Para state, Brazil on October 24, 2025. &mdash; AFPAmerica&rsquo;s renewed scepticism, and even hostility under Donald Trump&rsquo;s second administration, does not for one moment alter the fact that climate change is real.Neither does...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The wheel of exclusion]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows students taking lessons during class in Sindh. &mdash; AFP/File.Salma is seven years old. Her family lost everything during the 2022 floods in Sindh, including their home and the only school in their village.When the government rebuilt a school an hour&rsquo;s walk...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Executive judiciary]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Representational image of a judge holding a gavel. &mdash; AFP/File&ldquo;They have never even studied Pakistan&rsquo;s separation of powers &ndash; nor have they ever read about constitutional supremacy&rdquo;, declared the minister for information in the National Assembly&rsquo;s session on the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Times of discontent]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad on April 6, 2022. &mdash; ReutersThe phenomenon of pain can be excruciating and deeply unsettling. But, beyond its immediate impact, it lays bare the realities of life which breed discontent and disaffection.It is also...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Where is Pakistan headed?]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[A man carrying national flags walks through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar on August 13, 2023. &mdash; AFPPakistan&rsquo;s major security-oriented and diplomatic gains, post the May ace performance of its forces, in stature and engagement at the regional and...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Inhumane alternative]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows Coronavirus patients lying on their beds at the Intensive Care Unit of the Sharda Hospital, in Greater Noida. &mdash; AFPIn international diplomacy, economic sanctions are often portrayed as a clean and humane alternative to war, a supposedly civilised way to...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[On kindness]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The image depicts graphical representation of the World Kindness Day, with hands of human beings holding each others. &mdash; FreePik/FileThe history of World Kindness Day dates back to 1998, when several philanthropist organisations from Japan, Canada, Australia, the UAE, the US, the UK and other...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban's broken promises]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Defence Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif , shakes hands with his Afghan counterpart Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, following the signing of a ceasefire agreement in Doha, Qatar, October 19, 2025. &mdash; ReutersSince October, Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban have engaged in three rounds of talks...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[One amendment after another]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Police officers walk past the Supreme Court of Pakistan building, in Islamabad on April 6, 2022. &mdash; ReutersBy the time this piece is published, Pakistan stands to lose a Supreme Court and any modicum of an independent judiciary.Justice Yahya Afridi shall be the last chief justice of the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[COP-ing elite capture]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Mangrove forests are seen cut off at Port Qasim in Pakistan's southern Karachi city in the picture shared by WWF on July 26, 2024. &mdash; WWFPakistan is not suffering a resource crisis. It is suffering a power crisis. The problem is not that the country lacks land, water, forests or even the...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sindh's struggle for survival]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows a view of huts submerged in rainwater in Larkana in 2022. &mdash; APPThe Sindh Rural Support Organisation  has quietly become one of Pakistan&rsquo;s most effective engines of resilience. In a country where bureaucracy often confuses motion with progress, the SRSO...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can the G20 do more?]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The image displays the entrance to the G20 South Africa 2025 Leaders' Summit venue. &mdash; AFP/File The G20 is a space that was intended to catalyze multilateral action. In fact, it touts itself as the &ldquo;the premier forum for international economic cooperation,&rdquo; and it is the one...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Climate-friendly meals]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The image shows a sight of vegetable stall in Pettah Market, Keyzer Street, Colombo, Sri Lanka. &mdash; Unsplash/FileThe message is simple: We cannot fix the climate crisis while ignoring what we eat. A Hopeful Solution Within Reach: This reality should give us hope. Food offers a solution that is...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Defending the amendment]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Treasury members rise from their seats to vote in favour of a bill during a National Assembly session in Islamabad on 12 November 2025. &mdash; X@NaofPakistanThe planned 27th Amendment to the constitution of Pakistan was unanimously passed by the Senate of Pakistan on November 10, by a vote of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Beyond the 27th]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows people waving flags as they rally in support of Pakistan Army, day after the ceasefire announcement between Pakistan and India in Lahore on May 11, 2025. &mdash; ReutersThe push by Pakistan&rsquo;s ruling structure to amend the constitution for the 27th time fails...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pakistan and the new Middle East]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:00:00 +0500]]></pubDate>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image of the Dubai International Airport . &mdash; Middle East Economy/FileThe global economic landscape is undergoing a profound transformation and the Middle East &ndash; long defined by oil rents and labour imports &ndash; is now emerging as a dynamic hub of...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[The discount rate reality]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[A man counts dollars and other currency notes. &mdash;AFP/FileThe discount rate of any nation is not just a monetary number but a confession of a nation&rsquo;s economic temperament. It reflects how prudently it balances growth, stability and credibility with the nation&rsquo;s macro-economic...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Supporting genocide]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Smoke rises following explosions during the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip.&mdash;ReutersSince at least Spring 2024, universities in the United States and Canada have suspended or banned various student organizations opposing the illegal Israeli...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Growth stake]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[The representational image shows an exhibition hall at GITEX AFRICA, a major technology and startup event held annually in Marrakech, Morocco. &mdash; AFP/FileWhen e-commerce company Jumia wanted to go public in 2019, Africa&rsquo;s most celebrated start-up didn&rsquo;t list in Lagos, Nairobi,...]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mirza and the lost republic]]></title>
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                				<![CDATA[Pakistan's first president Major General  Iskander Mirza  while speaking with the Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. &mdash; Facebook/Photo Archives of PakistanIn Pakistan&rsquo;s political folklore, Iskander Ali Mirza carries a reputation forged by repetition rather than examination. He is...]]>
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