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Nauman Ahmad Bhatti
Nauman Ahmad Bhatti

  • July 20, 2024

    The remittance bubble

    Increasingly unliveable conditions here offer no incentive for anyone to stay

  • February 21, 2024

    What matters is delivery

    In theory a hung parliament is most desirable for an ethnically diverse country such as Pakistan

  • May 17, 2023

    No longer geostrategic

    Despite once being a coveted gateway between the East and the West, Pakistan’s so-called ‘geostrategic location’ now stands as a relic of a...

  • December 24, 2022

    The escape plan

    At least one of your acquaintances is either preparing to take an IELTS test or is applying for a work visa. The language coaching centres are...

  • September 26, 2022

    Transgender rights are human rights

    Members of the transgender community are holding a protest demonstration against the amendment in Transgender Protection Act, at Multan press club...

  • May 21, 2022

    Water security

    Pakistan is facing a severe water shortage. The average reduction of water in the major water stores of Pakistan has been recorded around 40 per...

  • May 02, 2022

    Foreign policy dilemma

    Pakistan has on multiple occasions found itself trapped inside a global conflict where it has been forced to pick one side. But in doing so it had...

  • January 19, 2022

    Financial meltdown?

    The 2008 global financial crisis was one of the worst human-made economic catastrophes. It cost millions of people their homes and billions of...

  • August 16, 2021

    Afghanistan’s brain drain

    The US government has finally decided to pull out its troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, nearly two decades after the United States...

  • July 07, 2021

    The new cold war (Part – I)

    In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill said, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the...

  • May 29, 2021

    Still no PayPal

    The past few weeks brought good news to Pakistan, particularly for the youth. Amazon has announced its decision to add Pakistan in its sellers list....

  • April 15, 2021

    Bitcoin and the environment

    The year 2009 was declared by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration as the then second warmest year on record. The same year, the...

  • November 09, 2020

    In defence of democracy

    The end of the 20th century marked the end of the pursuit of any novel structures of governance. It witnessed many proposed systems of government...