Revolution will not be t̶e̶l̶e̶v̶i̶s̶e̶d̶ digitised
This isn’t the first time that the military establishment has been on the receiving end of a public backlash. Will
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PTI accused of nepotism in KP assembly inductions
by Irshad Ullah Khan Peshawar: Violation of merit has allegedly been made in recruiting over 100 officers on various posts
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Power woes of students in Upper Chitral
Upper Chitral is a remote mountainous district of KP lacking basic necessities of life including electricity. Students are affected the most
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G-B: gender disparity and geography
Rugged terrain of the region amplifies gender disparity in work. According to the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey 2019-20, the labor force participation rate for women in Gilgit-Baltistan was only 18%, significantly lower than the rate for men, which was 65%. This disparity is also evident in the education sector where the literacy rate for women in Gilgit-Baltistan is only 31%, compared to 58% for men.
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Pakistan’s economic crisis: Left’s perspective
Over the past few months, Pakistan’s dire economic situation has garnered considerable attention in the political, media and intellectual mainstream.
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‘Women empowerment key to building resilient communities’
By Our correspondent Speaker of an event organised in connection with International Women’s Day highlighted the role of women in
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Ecocide in the Indus basin
By Hassan Abbas On Sept 19, 1960, a treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on water sharing. The decisions
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A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological
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Pak-Turkish varsities agree to boost collaboration
By News desk Various Pakistani universities have signed cooperative agreements with leading Turkish universities during their visit to Istanbul for
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Three projects in South Asia putting gender at the centre of responses to climate change
From who is most affected to who gets to be in the room when decisions are made, gender affects every
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Promoting mother languages
By Dr Naazir Mahmood The Indus Cultural Forum (ICF) has been organizing the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature (PMLL) Festival in
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‘More audio leaks could surface soon’
By News desk Investigative journalist Umar Cheema has claimed that the storm of audio leaks does not seem to be
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The rule of the rich
By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar THE IMF issues commandments, and our finance czars comply. The most recent iteration of
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Zia Mohyeddin: A man for all seasons
By S. Amjad Hussain I was going to write about the happenings in this northwestern corner of Pakistan in the
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Safeguarding the KKH: A call for action
By Aamir Hussain Nihal The recent horrific road crash on the Karakorum Highway (KKH) which resulted in the death of
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