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News Alerts – Pakistan

Mad tea party

OUR state’s poor ability to investigate and then prosecute is evident in the current accountability drive. That the process required ‘external influence’ despite the weight of evidence collected against our

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A brutalised society

“The dignity of man … shall be inviolable.” — Article 14 (1) of the Constitution. AMONG the facts highlighted in the wake of the motorway gang rape outrage is the extent to

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Politics, not economics

VIEWED from afar, Pakistani women seem to be doing quite well. The rates of urbanisation in the country have risen and more women than ever now work outside the home.

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A sham democracy

THE presumptuously titled Tahaffuz-i-Bunyad-i-Islam Bill that was adopted with undue haste by the Punjab Assembly some time ago continues to generate controversy at various forums with the objections that had persuaded the

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Future of devolution politics

OVER the past four years, constitutional arrangements pertaining to centre-province relations in Pakistan have come under scrutiny from a growing number of quarters. Academic economists cite budgetary constraints placed by

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Rays of hope

IT has been a difficult year for everybody, but as Eid approaches there are grounds to take some cheer. The pall of gloom that descended on the country with the

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A hybrid system?

THE most important part of the much-talked-about interview given by Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhry recently was not a clash of ambitions between some ministers that was reported to have been

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The mess that is Karachi

THIS is a horror story. A global pandemic rages outside. The newspapers are emblazoned with death counts, with reports of the suffering, of ever-dwindling resources at hospitals trying to tend

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Human trafficking in Pakistan

Human trafficking has been one of the most acute dilemmas facing contemporary society, which has evolved to take on different forms through time. As per a research by the International

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