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Hamna Runs for Education in Pakistan

on October 31, 2015

By Ayesha Majeed - It is a very common research that fathers generally have as much or more influence on many aspects of a daughter’s life as compared to the mothers. In most cases how “he approaches his own life will serve

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Indo-US Climate and Clean Energy Cooperation

on March 1, 2015

By Fakhar Jalil - Energy is the basic requirement for any country’s economic growth, development and for increasing the quality of life.

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Good Governance Killing Workers’ Welfare

on January 1, 2016

By Irfan Bukhari - The project never materialised further than the paper it was produced on and the sense of achievement and joy that innocent Baloch people from Pishin

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The Crisscross Paths of De-Radicalization

on December 9, 2015

A year ago on 16th December, 2014 the day when Pakistani nation was completely traumatized after the heart-wrenching incident of school attack in Peshawar

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China Shouldn’t Treat South Korea as an Enemy

on April 6, 2017

One of the most stunning geopolitical transformations in recent years has been the warming relationship between South Korea and the People’s Republic of China.

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Weak Net

on March 1, 2015

By Mehtab Haider - Although, Pakistan’s external account seems in comfortable position mainly because of debt creating dollar inflows during last two years rule of PML-N but internal accounts

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Small Crime, High Price

on March 1, 2015

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar - The communities living in the fan shaped delta of Indus River, the lifeline of Pakistan, are entirely different from the rest of the country. Almost entire community gathers at one place

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Who Cares about Koalas?

on February 1, 2015

By Rabia Ahmed - It seems a bit unfair to expect the Prime Minister or any other government minister to worry about the power crisis. After all who in Pakistan worries about the Maori in New Zealand

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Dedicated To You

on June 25, 2015

By Ayesha Majeed - “Some research suggests that women are often better at articulating their feelings than men because as the female brain develops, more capacity is reserved for language, memory,

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The Cost of Privatizing Education

on September 29, 2015

By Sidrah Roghay - Saba*, a parent, pays Rs 80,000 as school fee for three children who attend the Beaconhouse School System. That’s a lot of money even for her well-to-do family which owns a profitable

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Skilled Manpower Anchors Economy

on July 9, 2015

By Yasir Habib Khan - Pakistan’s embattling economy looks to be on the mend. Index provider MSCI tends to consider Pakistan among emerging markets of the world.

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Islamophobia – A Myth Becomes Reality

on April 28, 2015

By Irsa Shafiq & Musharaf Sultana - “Extremism breeds extremism”, so there is a very interconnected and interdependent relationship between these two.

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PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week April 2015

on April 27, 2015

The Pakistan Fashion Design Council in collaboration with Sunsilk presented the eighth PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week. Indeed the 8th PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week

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MQM: Time for Change

on May 7, 2015

By S. Mubashir Noor - Even for a cult of personality, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is unique. Its beloved leader, Altaf Hussain, sings, tells jokes, and takes a nap; all while addressing the faithful.

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Confessions of a Maulvi

on January 1, 2015

By Irfan Bukhari - Though I live on people’s donations, mostly simpletons who consider maulviat as an institution of Islam but I wield unlimited powers in the society. My journey to present-day-state

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Living a Cricketing Dream

on August 4, 2015

By Naila Inayat - Set in the picturesque Uttarakhand valley in the mighty Himalayas, a cricket ground comes as pleasant surprise in India.The Abhimanyu Cricket Academy in Dehradun is providing

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Cousin Marriages

on April 10, 2015

By Rabia Ahmed - In a complex tale of interrelationships, Malika's marriage to her first cousin Latif was settled before she was born. When the parents formalised the agreement the groom

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The Ladder and Master Climbers

on June 24, 2015

By Aftab Channa - Although, the people have always heard about miracles in their lives, however with the particular case of the Sindh Assembly Secretariat, it has been the place where miracles happen

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Let the Great Axe Fall

March 12, 2015

Skilled Manpower Anchors Economy

on July 9, 2015

By Yasir Habib Khan - Pakistan’s embattling economy looks to be on the mend. Index provider MSCI tends to consider Pakistan among emerging markets of the world.

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The Pakistani Astronaut

on January 1, 2015

By Ali Rizvi - The odds of being an astronaut are 1:14200000 or 1 in 142 million. The odds of sky diving over the Mount Everest are 1:35500000 or 1 in 355 million. The odds of a Pakistani to visit the North and the South Pole are

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In Conversation with Mark McCaughrean

on December 1, 2014

By A Rahim Khan - Famously, science fiction doyen, Arthur C. Clarke, ventured, as a young air force officer who occasionally dabbled in fiction, the idea of communication satellites. Proposing the launch of ‘artificial satellites’ into

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“There is a deep and inherent anti-Muslim bias in the American media,” Reza Aslan

on November 1, 2014

By A Rahim Khan - “I want to be clear, you’re a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?” If the questions seem pointed, even a little blunt, forgetting that it sounds hopelessly obtuse, that is

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The Most Divisive Man in Israel

on October 1, 2014

By A Rahim Khan - “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” There is certain vigor, even a brio to this paraphrased apothegm attributed to the revered 1st century Jewish scholar, Hillel the Elder.

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Off Beat

Hamna Runs for Education in Pakistan —

on October 31, 2015

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Betel Quid: Southeast Asia’s Dreadful Addiction —

on June 29, 2015

By Rabia Ahmed - When the Mughal emperor Akbar's regular paan maker fell sick Akbar asked the son to prepare paan (betel leaf) for him.

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The Costumes of Mughals —

on April 15, 2015

By Ayesha Majeed - This is an attempt to frame the rich history of costumes and textiles that this subcontinent enjoyed in the reign of Mughal emperors (1526-1857). Their leisurely and relaxed life style

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Weathering the Storm —

on March 1, 2015

By Haroon Janjua - Rocking waves of tides strike the coast beneath the sweltering sun and a string of fishermen’s boats line the docks. Ibrahim Haideri describes the shanties and deplorable, squalid

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Supporting the Burns Ward —

on February 1, 2015

By Rabia Ahmed - The Mayo Hospital is located on Hospital Road, at the time of its construction in 1870 a peaceful street in the midst of a beautiful town. It is now a dirty, overcrowded road with all the attendant pollution

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Indifference Greets Ebola Threat in Pakistan —

on December 1, 2014

By Yasir Habib Khan - Despite government’s rebuff, Ebola’s incursion looms dark in Pakistan as more than 100 Pakistanis working or trading in Ebola affected areas have returned to Pakistan during last two months.

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Malala Yousafzai – The ‘Nobel’ Daughter of Pakistan —

on November 1, 2014

By Mirza Khurram Shahzad - Exactly after two years when she was shot in the head, Malala Yousafzai became the second Pakistani ever to have won the Nobel. Though she shared the peace prize with the Indian Child rights activist Kailash

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Figures Speak More Loudly Than PPP Claims —

on November 1, 2014

By Sidrah Roghay - In the historic October 21 rally in Karachi, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the young Pakistan People’s Party chairman, spoke strongly against the Taliban and extremism—for the two discourage critical thinking and push the

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The Sunshine Vitamin, Why We Need it, How to Get it —

on October 1, 2014

By Rabia Ahmed - Soranus, a Greek physician practising in Rome in the 2nd century AD wrote about patients presenting with soft bones and terrible deformities. Frustratingly, he didn’t know what caused this.

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Troubled Waters —

on September 1, 2014

Heavy monsoon rainfall in the country has brought catastrophe in Kashmir and most parts of the Punjab as flash floods have displaced thousands of people from their homes, further inflicting huge financial losses to an ailing economy. Severe damage was caused by spillage from the Jhelum and

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