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Opportunity or Poisoned Chalice 

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: At a meeting co-hosted by Islamabad and United Nations and attended by 40 private donors and financial institutions, a massive package of 10 plus billion dollars was announced to help the victims of recent…

Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer indignity of standing in queue for hours to receive a bag of flour at a government rate.
They live

ECP must come up to the mark 

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: President Arif Alvi has sent back the Islamabad Local Government Amendment Bill without his signature. In the Bill, the government has made amendments including increasing the number of union councils, which…

Political Tug of War in Punjab

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: The political confrontation in Punjab has entered a critical phase as the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) seeks to challenge Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi’s hold over the provincial assembly, while…