Category: Opinion
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Icelandic volcano speaks after 6,000-year silence
(NUT DESK) A volcano in southwestern Iceland exploded with radiating waves of molten lava last Friday, media reports. The sight was met with much anticipation and excitement after seismic activity in the area increased within the past few weeks. The Reykjanes peninsula, not far from the country’s capital Reykjavik, hasn’t witnessed a volcanic eruption in…
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23rd March Pakistan day is Pakistan Resolution Day
23 march pakistan day is a national holiday in Pakistan commemorating the Lahore Resolution passed on 23rd March 1940. Lahore (NUT DESK) 23 march pakistan day is Amid security and traffic restrictions across Pakistan, 23 march pakistan day events will be held across Pakistan, which are: The main parade will occur at the Shakarparian Parade Ground…
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Does PTI have a future in Government?
(NUT)By Ather Naqvi The PTI government remains in the news, often for all the wrong reasons. In other words, it was a bad start. It must have been very difficult first two years of the PTI government in various ways. The economic challenge, the accountability process, the Covid-19 pandemic and the poor health sector, the…
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Panama Leaks (By-BABAR AYAZ)
The good, the bad and ugly of the Panama Leak soap has been consuming the nation for the last several months. Every evening tele-pundits hold heated debates on this subject telling us that democracy is in danger. Rarely do we see good things happening in this country and the masses are mostly missed by those…
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Matters of life and death (I.A. Rehman)
A SERIES of cases in which the Supreme Court has acquitted the accused whose death sentence had been upheld by the high courts have thrown up questions that need to be answered if innocent persons are to be saved from falling victim to the misplaced zeal for hanging people. In nearly a dozen cases decided…
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Bhutto’s fading legacy (Imtiaz Alam)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto lives on in history, 38 years after his hanging at the hands of a most ruthless military dictator in what is now universally considered a ‘judicial murder’. History has absolved Bhutto. But it is yet to erase the blot of an immense moral burden on the conscience of the judiciary. Times have…
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Enlightened Muslims, please stand up (Babar Ayaz)
Why is it difficult for the Islamic countries to post a barrage of positive messages of love and tolerance to drown the blasphemous and militant propaganda? In the debate to ban or not to ban Facebook due to the blasphemous postings on it, the most cogent quip came from contemporary columnist Hassan Nisar, he said…
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Government needs military courts (Babar Ayaz)
The issue of providing protection to the judges hearing the terrorist cases can be dealt with by keeping the judge anonymous and providing them with the same level of protection which is provided to the judges of the military courts. The crucial question that is missing in the whole debate regarding the military courts is:…
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Trump and world disorder
President Donald J Trump is on a rampage – creating chaos at home and uncertainty abroad. From a no-holds-barred presidential campaign, he is now disrupting what was known as the American dream. He is doing this without any regard for the serious consequences it has for the whole world order the Americans had built in…
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Mitigating poverty by Marvi Memon
Oft have I come across people criticising the cash grants being given to beneficiaries through BISP. The most common criticism in this regard has almost always been that cash grants do not help ameliorate the conditions of beneficiaries. It is imperative however to share with my readers the beneficiary profile and how exactly BISP quarterly…