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Major issues, poor response

ANY bit of information that exposes misgovernance or any hardship to citizens doesn’t make newspaper headlines. Much of such information is tucked away at the bottom of newspapers’ columns, often…

Democracy: Demonstrated Or Defiled?

Democracy: demonstrated or defiled?

Milton is best known for his epic poem, ‘Paradise Lost’. It is a moving portrayal about Adam and Eve, the temptation induced by Satan and the former’s banishment from paradise…

The viruses win

HAD Newton lived in these times, he may have added another law of physics to his list, which may have gone something like: ‘A lie can circle the globe twice…

The Age Of Ineptness

The age of ineptness

Just as the era of Reiwa begins in Japan this year with the ascension to throne of the new emperor, Pakistan is in the throes of an era of ineptitude…

Health In Africa

Health in Africa

One of the lessons of the Ebola epidemic is the need to improve the African countries’ public health services, which have suffered the consequences of decades of neglect. Africa needs…

Outstanding People

Outstanding people

Asadullah Khan (Mirza Ghalib) was the best poet of the Subcontinent. In one ghazal, he demanded that the earth tell us what it had done to all those indomitable personalities…

Ice In Islamabad

Ice in Islamabad

Many have questioned, and rightly so, the statistical credibility of the claims made by Shehryar Afridi, the state minister for interior, that 75 percent of female and 45 percent of…

State Of Denial

State of denial

Since Pakistan’s involvement in the Afghan crisis began in 1979 following the invasion of that country by the then Soviet Union, there has been a steady flow of drugs into…

Let Us Breathe Again

Let us breathe again

In December 1952, a spell of cold weather in London, coupled with the burning of coal for heat, no rain and windless conditions, led to pollution accumulating in the environment…

Why Have The MDGs Failed?

Why have the MDGs failed?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – an idea of the UN – proved to be a historical moment for international development in 2000. Once the proposition received a positive response,…