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By Yasmeen Ali In Pakistan,depending on your place of residing,there is no electricity from six to twenty hours a day. Whereas it has hit hard the lives of the common man,making it impossible to function on a day to day basis,it has also brought down production in industrial sectors drastically,costing . . . →Read More:What needs to be fixed? Click to enlarge. Data source:World Values Survey By Max Fisher When two Swedish economists set out to examine whether economic freedom made people any more or less racist,they knew how they would gauge economic freedom,but they needed to find a way to measure a country’s level of racial tolerance. So they . . . →Read More:Map on the wall,Who is the racist of them all? By Enum Naseer The country is passing through a decisive period in history and this time,it’s not a false alarm- it’s a make or break situation. What is trifling in the current context is that the economy (according to Gallup Pakistan) gets only 6% of on-air time in talk shows. It is generally posited . . . →Read More:100 billion dollars in a wink!  Leave a comment  Social Issues  100 billion dollars in a wink!,ADB,Asian Development Bank,Avoidance of Double Taxation Treaty between Pakistan and Switzerland,economy,FBR,Gallup Pakistan,IMF,IMF Extended Facility Fund,Pakistan,Pakistan economy,Pakistani citizen,Return of Illicit Assets Act 2010,Swiss parliament bill The Ajoka theatre group kicked off its celebration of Saadat Hassan Manto’s 101st birth anniversary here on Wednesday with readings from his work by famous writers and clips from a television show on his life. The evening began at the Alhamra on The Mall with the presentation of an upcoming drama and movie,Mai Manto, . . . →Read More:Ajoka commemorates Manto’s Anniversary Leave a comment Art &Culture Ajoka commemorates Manto’s Anniversary,Area 14/8,famous writers and clips from a television show on his life,India,Jawaharlal Nehru,Mai Manto,Pakistan,presentation of an upcoming drama and movie,The Ajoka theatre group kicked off its celebration of Saadat Hassan Manto’s 101st birth anniversary As our nation in tatters cries out for a savior through the crevices of a skeptical general election,everyone seems to have something to say. While a number of analysts and PTI supporters tend to rationalize the despair through baseless discourses such as ‘An illiterate nation chose an illiterate leader’ and the more plausible,‘the . . . →Read More:A Case of National Social Ignorance Leave a comment Info Hype,Media Reforms A Case of National Social Ignorance,KPK,Mian Saab,Musharraf regime,nation embroils in cyber-battlement,nation embroils in social ignorance,National Social Ignorance,Nawaz Sharif,Pakistan,Pakistan 2013 general elections,Pakistan population,Pakistani media,PTI,PTI supporters,social media,Taliban,Youtube ban By Ghalib Sultan ‘Siapa’ is a wonderfully expressive Punjabi word almost impossible to accurately translate into English. It means a development or situation full of interconnected problems,difficulties,contradictions and intrigues — not easy to resolve and not easy to live with. Why should the elections that catapulted the Sharifs to power be a ‘siapa’? . . . →Read More:THE SHARIF ‘SIAPA’ I admit I was wrong in my pre-poll projections. Like most of my colleagues in the media,I had expected the PPP to get a good drubbing in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). But very few of us had expected it to be wiped out almost completely from these two provinces. On the other hand,none . . . →Read More:Media overestimated the role of social media? By Murtaza Haider Pakistan may not be the world’s largest democracy,but is certainly the world’s bravest. Over 50 million voters braved heat,violence,and terrorism to cast their votes and wrote a new chapter in the history of democracy. . . . →Read More:The most courageous democracy:Pakistan
By Zoon Ahmad Khan, Enum Naseer &Sarah Eleazar Research Analysts, Spearhead Research – Pakistan As the Pakistani voter heads for the polling station tomorrow,on May 11,2013,Pakistan will for the first time in history,allow an elected government to complete its tenure. Despite the multiple and enormous challenges it faces,the nation sees itself united . . . →Read More:Spearhead Analysis:Pakistan’s dance with the democracy Leave a comment Speaker's Corner,Vent it Out! 1970 ELECTION,Islamic Socialism,MQM,Pak-US ties,Pakistan,Pakistan economy snapshot,Pakistan elections 2013,Pakistan National Alliance,Pakistani voter,Pakistan’s dance with the democracy,Pakistan’s nuclear aspirations,PML-N,PPP,PPP tenure under Bhutto,Spearhead Analysis:Pakistan’s dance with the democracy,Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | |||
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