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For universal healthcare

PROVIDING as many medical services, as equitably as possible and for the greatest number, defines universal healthcare (UHC). The idea evolved in Germany and the UK that navigated social movements…

Somersaults Over Kashmir

Somersaults over Kashmir

After deferring local bodies elections for 13 years in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK), the Indian government held the first phase of the polls on October 8. The polls were marred…

Role Reversal

Role reversal

The disqualification of Mian Nawaz Sharif (MNS) at the hands of the Supreme Court has given rise to both laudatory and caustic remarks. At all events, the definitive interpretation of…

A Dark Anniversary

A dark anniversary

It was exactly one year ago, on 25 August 2017, that the Myanmar military launched a murderous ‘clearance operation’ in Rakhine State. In the space of a few months, the…

A Reversal Of Roles

A reversal of roles

In a hung parliament, our hero Imran Khan is going to face a grand alliance of a formidable opposition. With a lead of almost four million votes over the PML-N,…

Forsaken Reforms

Forsaken reforms

For the past five years Pakistan’s economy has not changed its basic composition, structure or dynamics. Fundamentally it remains the same, and as per historical cycles of crisis and lifting…

Conservation conversations

In September 2016, the world’s most unique ecology forum adopted two motions with potentially far-reaching, multiple impacts on mass participation to combat climate change. These two motions came in the…

A Secretive Conversation

A secretive conversation

The first, tentative steps towards the final frontier — dismantling the infrastructure of jihad in toto — or an all-too-familiar false start? The detention of Hafiz Saeed and co could…

Kashmir Forsaken

Kashmir forsaken

Over 30 years ago, prime minister Indira Gandhi called off talks with Pakistan on a no-war pact because Pakistan’s representative to the UN Human Rights Commission, Agha Hilaly, had compared…