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Umair Javed

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After neoliberalism

SLOWLY but surely, the signs of a global political and cultural realignment are becoming apparent. Several commentators trace the origins of this...

15.04.2024 200

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Fighting monopolisation

THE letter written by six judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) detailing interference in judicial work by intelligence agencies is an important...

01.04.2024 100

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Customers versus clients

WHILE service delivery in Pakistan has rarely been carried out with the explicit intention of pro-poor redistribution, no domain exemplifies this...

18.03.2024 100

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Moral visions

IN normal circumstances, a party leading the coalition at the centre and possessing a majority in the largest province of the country would not invite...

04.03.2024 50

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Ruptures in 2024

IT is pointless to pontificate on most of the voting numbers from this election, given the large discrepancies being reported. Make-believe Form-47s...

19.02.2024 80

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Why vote?

RECENT conversations about the upcoming election with university students reflect various degrees of disillusionment and despondency. For many, voting...

05.02.2024 100

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The wind vs the people?

THE Supreme Court’s decision stripping PTI of its electoral symbol casts another shadow on an already compromised pre-election phase. It undermines...

22.01.2024 90

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Smog season

LARGE parts of Pakistan are currently engulfed by toxic air, amounting to nothing short of a public health catastrophe. The onset of ‘smog...

27.11.2023 100

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Why we should care

PAKISTAN’S official position on the Pales­tinian struggle has been relatively consistent since 1948. Despite occasional recent murmurs about a...

13.11.2023 100

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A malignant settlement

LAST week, on these pages, Khurram Husain published an insightful and timely piece on Nawaz Sharif’s return and its implications for the management...

30.10.2023 90

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Regressive overlaps

THE news cycle is dominated by the escalation of violence in south Israel and Gaza. It should be labelled an escalation, rather than an eruption,...

16.10.2023 100

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A long four years

NAWAZ Sharif was ousted from the Prime Minister’s Office by a dubious Supreme Court decision on July 28, 2017. He left the country on Nov 19, 2019....

02.10.2023 90

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Whither public service?

IN the past two decades that the country has been in the midst of various economic and service delivery crises, nearly all solutions proposed by...

18.09.2023 100

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