10th NFC Award and its challenges
By Wajidul Islam The National Finance Commission (NFC) is a resource-sharing mechanism between the federal government and federating units. It
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Politics
GBLA polls 2020
by Sajjad Ahmad GILGIT-BALTISTAN will hold elections on Aug 18, 2020, for the Legislative Assembly’s 24 constituencies. The government’s five-year
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Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College
The renowned physicist took the decision after the FCC administration termed his contract ‘non-renewable’ After an eight-year-long association, Professor Dr
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Iran: journalist sentenced to death for role in protests
Students protest in Tehran’s Sharif University on Monday, January 13, 2020. Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian journalist and activist whose online
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BHC orders probe into Quetta incident
AIG informs the court that SP city has been suspended and inquiry initiated. all students released Herald Correspondent Quetta: Balochistan High
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After Hoodbhoy, FCC sacks another progressive teacher
Herald Report Islamabad: The Forman Christain College has sacked another young progressive teacher within a week after reducing contract of
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SC quashes reference against Justice Isa
Herald Report Islamabad: Pakistan’s top court on Friday threw out the presidential reference against senior judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa
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FCC terminates Prof Hoodbhoy’s contract
Herald Special Report Forman Christian (FC) College, Lahore has refused to renew the contract of Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, a noted
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Feminist organisations express solidarity with academic
WDF, WAF, AAM and other feminist and women rights organisations condemn threats hurled by JUI to Dr Arfana Mallah; demand
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Rights activists slam abolition of job quota for PWDs
The decision will add to the woes of PWDs that make 15 per cent of the population, says activist News
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Adieu comrade Chaudhry Fateh Muhammad
AWP observes two-day mourning. CPIM, PWA, PMA and others pay homage to the oldest beacon of Left Movement by Herald
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For Swat into three districts
By Zubair Torwali Swat is truly said to be a Switzerland in the East or Switzerland could be Swat
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Love in the time of corona: time to build South Asian cooperation
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different.
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Remembering Antonio Gramsci
By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci died on April 27, 1937, after eleven years in fascist prisons. We remember his revolutionary life
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Killing the virus and saving the economy
By S. Akbar Zaidi The trade-off being presented of saving lives through a lockdown to eliminate the coronavirus and killing the
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