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Feeding the poorest

SINDH’S eastern districts of Sanghar, Umerkot and Badin are agricultural planners’ canaries in the coal mine for the wheat crop. The output from these areas is important enough to warn…

Crushing poverty

NOBODY wants to live in crushing poverty. When a child is born in a poverty-stricken home, the parents do welcome the newborn, but their faces also wrinkle up as they…

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,…

Fear the have-nots’ wrath

PAKISTAN is a country of stark contrasts. Those who are involved in power politics or power grabs, no matter how respectable a cause they choose to justify their wrangling —…

This is generosity

PAKISTAN’s story is best told pictorially by juxtaposing images at any given point in time. The current photos and footage of the catastrophe unleashed by the rain and floods tells…

Big fall in the rate of inflation

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has come up with a very pleasant surprise. The year-to-year rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has come down…

Ordinary Pakistanis are not citizens

It has been an eventful week, with more than its just share of tragedies. While the genocidal Israeli war on the Palestinians continues with ferocious horror, the news of Iranian…

River of fire

Care to cast your mind back to May of 2023? Consumer prices skyrocketed by a staggering 38 per cent in just one year, sending shockwaves through all Pakistani households and…

The falling rate of inflation

The last few months have witnessed a major drop in the rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, it was…

Unity amidst crisis

There’s an urgent need for a unified approach from across the political spectrum to address the current economic challenges. The economy is fervently calling upon the participation and collaboration of…