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Penchant for Corruption How to root out the evil Qasim Dhillon Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index ranks how crooked a country is on the basis of perceived levels of public-sector corruption. While we have reduced corruption to the files of government offices and people in charge of those, it is evident in every sphere of life. We are corrupt …

Online Education Not a casual joyride Hassaan Bin Zubair Pakistan has observed a steady hike in the spread of Covid-19, which continues till this day. To halt the spread of the killer virus, a two-week closure of schools and universities in Balochistan and two-day closure of educational institutions in Sindh was announced. Afterwards, amidst the fast spread of coronavirus the …

New Waves of Feminism and Pakistan Nobody gives you power; you just take it Faridullah Despite having been through a long quest of motley waves, has feminism compassed its purported mark of gender equality in Pakistan? Ever since its independence, this beloved country of ours has been toiling to meet women rights and to bring womenfolk to the fore—making them …

Hong Kong National Security Law Explaining the Chinese move Ghufran Wakeel  On May 28, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) approved a decision to move forward with national security legislation for Hong Kong. The vote approves the standing committee to draft legislation to punish secession, subversion of state power, terrorism and acts that endanger national security in Hong Kong. Beijing has …

Fate of Populism in Post-Covid-19 World Fatima Razzaq Political trends had never been this synchronized until the turn of 21st century when the entire world saw a whole new lot of politicians rising around the globe. These world leaders, labelled populists, gained more power in years to come. The 9/11, economic crisis of 2008, and the migration crisis of 2015 …

COVID-19 and Human Rights “The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health emergency — but it is far more. It is an economic crisis. A social crisis. And a human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis.” — António Guterres, UN Secretary-General The Covid-19 crisis has provided some political leaders with a perfect pretext to advance narrow interests, brushing …

The Collapse of Neoliberalism the ideology at the root of all our problems fades aways For 40 years, we have lived in a neoliberal era, an era defined in public policy by deregulation, liberalization, privatization and austerity. Starting with the Thatcher and Reagan revolutions, neoliberal ideas spread to capture the centre and even the left, ultimately becoming the reigning policy …

The Petro-Yuan will Lead the Global Economy Mian Majid Ali Afzal Globalization described the world as a single society. However, countries of the world are divided into developed, developing, underdeveloped, and least developed countries based on the levels of their socioeconomic development, education, governance, international relations, trade and business. After the demise of the Soviet Union, the world order got …

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