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Renaming NWFP

Renaming NWFP

There is a likelihood of the curtain finally dropping on the issue of a new nomenclature for NWFP, a dispute that has continued to hang fire for the last many…

NWFP Takes The Brunt

NWFP takes the brunt

“WE all must know why we are in Afghanistan,” US special envoy Richard Holbrooke recently enunciated in one of his many statements on the fast-changing state of the war on…

TTP’s mentors

WITH the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan back in the killing business with renewed ferocity, it is time we took a look at its ideological moorings. In a nutshell, like the communist parties…

Scapegoating the refugee

HERDED like cattle, over 1,700,000 Muslim refugees — more than twice the number of Palestinians evicted in 1948 by Zionist Israel — are presently being expelled from the Islamic Republic…

Livestock loss

JANIB Gul Mohammad can feel a pall of gloom as he enters his home. And when his wife Kasbano serves him a meat dish, otherwise a rarity, he knows why.…

Malnutrition woes

MALNUTRITION, or poor nutrition, emerges when one’s diet does not contain the right amount of nutrients. Poor nutrition can be broadly categorised as ‘undernutrition’ and ‘over-nutrition’. In most developing countries,…

Transfer of power

AMONG the more surreal moments in Pakistani history there was the occasion 50 years ago when the nation was addressed by the man who wasn’t there. He was, obviously, sequestered…

Ungoverned areas

THE war against terrorism has put ungoverned and weakly governed spaces into the limelight, and governance in such areas is being debated. Globally, various options, including kinetic, administrative, and constitutional…

Lessons from past crises

PAKISTAN’S political crisis is deepening with every passing day. The fact that the Punjab Assembly election that was scheduled for April 30 has been delayed to Oct 8 by the…

The malnutrition crisis

Malnutrition remains one of the deadliest barriers in equity to the holistic development of all Pakistani children. The challenge is huge for Pakistan as it is facing a global acute…