Ten priorities for UHC…..Zafar Mirza
DECEMBER 12 is Universal Health Coverage Day. It commemorates the resolution on Global Health and Foreign Policy, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2012, urging countries to accelerate progress … Read More
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Pakistan’s Afghan sore… Shahzad Chaudhry
Pakistans Afghan sore continues to bleed. As a policy, relations with Afghanistan have mostly bordered on superficial, aspirational and delusional. In search of an ideational chimera termed strategic depth it … Read More
Opinion,Pakistan confronts the collapse of its friendship with the Taliban By Hamid Mir
On Dec. 11, Taliban government forces in Afghanistan shelled a town just across the border in Pakistan, killing seven Pakistani civilians. Pakistan responded in kind, killing one Taliban fighter and … Read More
TTP’s announcement….Dr Ameena Tanvir
Less than 48 hours before the newly appointed COAS General Asim Munir assumed charge, TTP announced the end of an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the federal government in June 2022. … Read More
Why the pain?….By Zara Maqbool
I was listening to Dr. Gabor Mat, known for his expertise on addiction and childhood trauma, and he posed a very significant question regarding addiction. And thus, the real question … Read More
Why the pain?… Zara Maqbool
I was listening to Dr. Gabor Maté, known for his expertise on addiction and childhood trauma, and he posed a very significant question regarding addiction. “And thus, the real question … Read More
Rocks and crops…..By Khaqan Hassan Najeeb
COUNTRIES have to earn their way to prosperity by building up their productive capacity. Mining the earth for natural resources is a profitable business strategy employed by many nations. Australia … Read More
Fiscal pollution….F.S. Aijazuddin
IN some ways, modern Islamabad is akin to 15th-century Ferghana in Central Asia. The novelist Lytton Strachey wrote of the first Mughal emperor Babar, who was born there in an … Read More
Military’s constitutional role….By Asfand Yar Warich
WHILE expressing his innocent wonder over why our armed forces are often made the subject of criticism, Gen Bajwa, our former army chief, recently conceded that this may just have … Read More
Pakistan and the World Cup….Uzair Sattar
PAKISTANS contributions to the Qatar World Cup reveal a juxtaposition. On the one hand, the countrys institutions have failed to adequately develop its talent pool footballing and otherwise. The Pakistan … Read More