LIIBS 7th Edition: leaders unite for collaborative development
Legislators, economists and business leaders advocate for bridging the political and social divide, shared goals to address social, economic and environmental challenges.
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Lahore incident: civil liberties vs intolerance
It is deeply troubling that a bunch of misguided obscurantist segments resort to threats and violence to suppress freedom of expression.
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Shi’ites suffer discrimination under Taliban rule
The Taliban are becoming increasingly intolerant of public expressions and displays of the Shi’ite religious faith,” said Niamatullah Ibrahimi, senior lecturer at Australia’s La Trobe University.
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To combat workplace harassment, change mindset
Creating a safe and inclusive work environment necessitates collective efforts from organizations, individuals, and society as a whole.
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Enforced disappearances: an offence to human dignity
Enforced disappearances has become pervasive in Pakistan. The use of enforced disappearances as a tool by security agencies to silence dissent, particularly political activists, journalists, students, and even children in Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh provinces has increased alarmingly.
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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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‘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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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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