Harnai Earthquake: Disobedience to God or Nature?
On Friday, while addressing a congregation, a religious cleric said, “Corona is a conspiracy against Islam. Earthquakes, famines, terrorism, inflation,
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Time to Change and Move Forward
The recent pandemic has exposed the health system all over the world, and economies both strong and weak have come
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Why Do You Laugh Helplessly At the Helpless People?
Every person has a different way of thinking. The same thing can be a source of happiness for some and
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Coward BlackCaps
A country that has been trying for decades to bring cricket back to Pakistan at a time when it is
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How is the “Real” Reading Compromised in Online Learning?
Is everything fine with your ‘new’ reading routine? No. Don’t worry. Read up. With the onset of the you-know-which pandemic, literally everything
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We Must Ensure That The War Against Virus Is Neither Against Science Nor Against Any Country
“Some have called the response to this pandemic, a war. We must ensure the war is against the virus and
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DigiMAP Calls for End to Digital Attacks on Women Journalists
On August 12, 2020, dozens of women journalists of Pakistan signed a joint public statement protesting the restrictive and intimidating conditions, especially in the digital domain, aimed at their professional work through coordinated serial harassment and trolling by their detractors. One year on today, their challenges have not been addressed by the government authorities that allow attacks against women in media nor have the conditions improved.
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The Dream of e-Governance in Pakistan
The way power is exercised through a country’s economic, political, and social institutions comprise strategies, actions and processes through which citizens and institutions meet their obligations and talk over their differences. E-governance is an important step in the evolutionary process towards this end. Electronic means are employed in mutual interaction of government & citizens and government & businesses, as well as in internal functioning of government offices.
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Is Pakistan on the Way to Eradicate Corona?
It has been three long years since the PTI and Imran Khan got the reins of power and saddled the government in Pakistan. Indisputably, it was an extraordinary triumph for Imran Khan, who had struggled for 22 years and eventually managed to break the hegemony of two dynastic political parties, i.e. PPP and PML(N).
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Inequality Amid COVID-19: Dilemma of which one should get and which be left to die
Dickens calls the writers the “Earthly Gods” as they are to decide one’s fate over the piece of paper but who could think of someone deciding the matter of life, ironically not by the pen but by injection instead.
As of now, one doesn’t see doctors responsible any longer since the vaccine itself is freed to get along with one of the either: a scrap of paper, circulating on social media with noble laureate narrating the story (fabricated or true) that vaccinated people will die within two years, or along with what really vaccine is invented for.
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