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Scientific research and use of better agricultural technologies can help counter this greatest global health challenge Six-year old Ayaan was pale and lean. He was slow in studies and less active in sports. His parents were alarmed when one day the child fainted. Initial checkup and tests were enough to reveal the child as severely anemic. “I was surprised to …

L P Hartley once said, “The past is a foreign country”. He clearly wasn’t thinking of Pakistan when he said this. As election season draws closer, one theme that sticks out the most is ‘sameness’. The names are the same (Khan, Sharif, Bhutto), the acronyms are the same (PPP, PTI, PML), the faces are the same, and of course, the …

HAMBURG, Germany — To claim we are living through a new Cold War is both an understatement and a category mistake. The 20th-century face-off between the Communist East and the Capitalist West was, ideology aside, about two superpowers trying to contain each other. The global conflict of today is far less static. What we are witnessing instead is a new …

NEAR the end of its tenure, the Sindh government announced a new youth policy. It has many outputs, including creating a youth commission, information system for documenting youth, placement bureaus, incubation centres at universities, assistance in skill development, options in seeking financial assistance for entrepreneurship and more. It also promises a possible revival of student unions. With scant time left …

The human rights movement, like the world it monitors, is in crisis: After decades of gains, nearly every country seems to be backsliding. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and other populist leaders routinely express contempt for human rights and their defenders. But from the biggest watchdogs to monitors at the United Nations, the human rights movement, …

Sending of Saudi troops to Syria will be a dangerous step as it may throw the neighbouring countries in bloody conflicts In a dangerous move to the already prolonged civil war in Syria, Saudi Arabia has shown willingness to send troops to the war-torn country as a part of a broader international coalition. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS), …

Sun Tzu, perhaps one of the most famous war strategists, explicated the concept of the Divine Skein in The Art of War, which in itself is the most famous treatise on warfare. The Divine Skein was a war stratagem of hemming in the enemy by subterfuge, espionage and other non-violent means instead of military conflict. Presently, the relations between China …

Political liberties are kept under watch when the goal becomes to protect the security state paradigm at all costs Some recent instances of executive authoritarianism have disquieted people as if the state’s overbearing role were a new addition to the body politic. News media in general has been stopped from expressing itself freely and academic freedom in universities is also …

One of the important questions at this juncture is how to ensure sustainability of current wave of economic growth and what could be the future growth levers? The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has provided a new narrative for Pakistan’s economy. Going past 5 per cent economic growth rate is a significant achievement for a country that had to deal …

Populists in both countries are deepening a rare military crisis between NATO allies. The relationship between Greece and Turkey has never been easy. The neighboring countries have been at war with each other several times in the 20th century and were close to military conflict over the Greek islet Imia in 1996, before the United States stepped in to avert …