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Peshawar High Court stays release of MDCAT results

Issuing a stay order, the Peshawar High Court on Friday stopped the Khyber Medical University and Educational Testing and Evaluation Authority from releasing results of the recent Medical and Dental…

One burger combo, please!

Finance minister Ishaq Dar has been regularly claiming two things: One, Pakistan won’t default on its external debt commitments and two, that the real value of the PKR/USD is below…

Pleasures of political kill

Among those who were stunned by a bit of unexpected news travelling from Bahawalpur on the afternoon of Aug 17 in 1988, some might recall the emptiness that the sudden…

Privatize SOEs, please

Nobody can deny the economic and financial turmoil Pakistan currently finds itself in. Yet, the country’s decision-makers are shy of taking hard decisions to stabilize the troubled economy. One policy…

Economy – the least problem

This column, for the last couple of weeks or more, has been building arguments to support the view that the key to Pakistan’s economic growth is directly correlated with the…

New lease of life

I NEVER thought I would need the jab of a vaccine to activate my patriotism. Since news of the availability of anti-Covid-19 vaccines has been regurgitated by the press, I…