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Education concerns
Standards are falling even in the best schools.
Hajrah Mumtaz
Boon or a curse?
The mountain springs are filled with trash and sewage.
Faces of doom
Permafrost is an excellent preserver of viruses.
A nightmare in ice
Ancient germs may be springing back to life.
‘Mother’ Earth?
Climate change, real and devastating, is the result of human activities.
Becoming a statistic
The presence of police vehicles suggested some sort of collusion...
Mass slaughter
Simply killing off populations of stray dogs is ineffective.
Going pink
The world offers to women a special little place of their own.
Poisoned ocean
Sepa has been given a bad name for not enforcing the law.
Safety standards
Airline tragedies in Pakistan are papered over.
Born disadvantaged
Over 9m Pakistani children experience chronic malnutrition.
Lethal standards
Contaminated food and drink hardly bother the state.
Faces of ill health
Children are not getting enough nutrients.
Alternative lens
Politicians’ power stems from their own persons and rhetoric.
‘Post-truth’ world
All people have to do to learn the truth is reach out for it.
Shop the ‘shopper’
Raising awareness must be part of any move to ban polythene.
Language wars
The issue of regional languages has dropped off the radar.
Issues from none
Why create problems where none exist?
Behind closed doors
Naming and shaming domestic help on social media is a favourite pastime.
Writing on the wall
Thriving bookstores are conspicuous by their absence.