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Over 12,000 candidates appear in MDCAT retake

Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU) on Monday re-conducted the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) across Islamabad, Muzaffarabad Gilgit-Baltistan, and international centres. Moreover question papers were also handed…

Streamlining WASH

As a signatory and adopter of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Goal 6, Pakistan recognises access to water and sanitation as a fundamental human right essential for dignity, health,…

Is Ogra listening?

I HAVE a confession to make. For the last two years, I had been involved in an illicit activity — getting an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) cylinder refilled for use…

Empowering Gilgit-Baltistan

THE Gilgit-Baltistan region, the neglected mountainous expanse within the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, has recently risen to prominence. Previously perceived as a remote liability and officially referred to as…

Listening to GB

Local protesters have been peacefully demonstrating in Skardu for two weeks, under the shadow of the fluttering green-and-white Pakistani flag. All profess to be Pakistanis, and have Pakistani passports and…

Shaky governance arrangement

DEMOCRACY thrives in an environment wherein the diverse interests of common citizens are channelised through a political process informed by a framework for policy decision-making and implementation. Representing as they…

Procrastination

THERE appears to be a general consensus in Pakistan, across the political divide, that Gilgit-Baltistan be integrated as a provisional province. The GB committee set up by prime minister Nawaz…

A saffron silence

HAD William Shakespeare been alive today in Pakistan, he would have given a different twist to his drama Julius Caesar. He would have reframed history in the light of our…