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Taliban support
THE latest UN monitoring report analysing the activities of several transnational terrorist groups is unequivocal in...
Job policy for youth
STRIPPED of its rhetoric, the prime minister’s announcement of Pakistan’s first National Youth Employment Policy...
Jail improvements
THE Punjab government is spending Rs5bn on modernising jail facilities in the province, but to what end? The...
AJK outlook
AS the staggered polls for the AJK Legislative Assembly enter their final stretch, it appears that the PML-N is in a...
Food costs
THE State Bank’s warning that domestic food prices could rise more than expected in the near term deserves urgent...
Denied a future
FIVE years after the Taliban returned to Kabul, the world is still issuing statements while a generation of Afghan...