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No time to waste

IT is now more than 100 years since the ILO established standards on women in the workplace, focusing on maternity protection. A century on, much has changed, and we can…

Will an Adlai Stevenson save us?

JOE Biden is only partly right. Pakistan can be a scary place with its nuclear weapons. So is India, which he forgot to mention. The evidence stares us in the face.…

Life is a struggle

THE last year has been tough for most people up to middle-income levels. Inflation has increased a lot and salaries, though some might have gone up, have not kept pace…

IMF programme delay adding to uncertainty

There is growing unease due to delays in the IMF board approval. The Staff-Level Agreement (SLA) was reached in mid-July, with earlier expectations for board approval in mid-September. While the…

The bitter IMF pill

Pakistan, as a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), commonly known as the World Bank, has repeatedly sought financial support…

The system is not clean

The Suthra Punjab Campaign was initiated with the noble aim of improving sanitation standards across Punjab. However, the campaign’s implementation has been criticized for its focus on superficial measures rather…

IMF programme & challenges

Pakistan’s economic journey took a momentous turn after it bid farewell to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August 2016, after successfully completing twelfth and final review of Extended Fund…

The key to stable power tariffs

According to experts, there will be no need to raise power tariffs on a regular basis if losses amounting to hundreds of billions rupees could be reduced via the implementation…

The polarization menace

“Severe polarization makes democracy vulnerable. In healthy democracies, opposing sides are seen as political adversaries to compete against and at times to negotiate with. In deeply polarized democracies, the other…