Rabia Ahmed

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Burning crops is not the only source of pollutionThere are several reasons why you’re having a problem breathing in Lahore these days.The air over Pakistan is always polluted, bu

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Not enough bridgesIt’s an ageless process, building walls in anattempt toprotect oneself from perceived or real external threats, which does not justify the proposed wall between the US and

Pakistan’s record of resettling displaced persons has not been good NASA is preparing to send manned flights to Mars. The pilot of the first human flight to leave earth’s orbit in 1968,<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/28/like-sending-man-to-mars/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Irrational reasons for legislationBasant was the indirect cause of so many deaths and injuries each year it’s been banned in the Punjab since 2005, with several lapses in between. At no time

The persistent persist, such is the power of irrational beliefIn Germany it seems persons who are superstitious burn hair instead of throwing them in the trash, a practice shared by their coun

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Ruling by ordinance is not a good thing, Mr PM. Don’t even think about it After a singularly violent birth, Pakistan spent more than three decades under martial law, resulting from three<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/10/defined-by-a-lack-of-coherence/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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In the best interest of the region One gets a petty satisfaction watching Teresa May’s trials, a vicious gratification witnessing Britain’s suffering in parting ways with the EU, nothing as those sufferings<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/03/kartarpur-a-bright-spot-on-the-horizon/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Publishers appear to be unaware of this potent tool in their hands Pakistan, with its poor literacy figures, needs to improve them by making a concerted “one, two, three…Pull!” effort, because literacy<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/27/the-power-of-newsprint/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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U-turns all around? The various convent schools dotted across the country used to produce what we were pleased to consider an elite; in the case of female students that meant women known<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/19/education-of-the-azaan-baj-raha-hai-variety/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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When dreams are still somewhere in the dim and uncertain future Anyone following the trajectory of Imran Khan’s rise to prominence must wish, most arduously, that he’d settled back into a semi-private<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/whos-the-they-they-speak-of/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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What kind of government allows itself to be hamstrung and held hostage this way? On 19 August 2014 Imran Khan was addressing a huge rally in Islamabad during the course of which<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/05/will-the-real-blasphemy-please-stand-up/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Culture of violence On December 14 2012, in Connecticut in the USA, a twenty year old man shot and killed his mother, then twenty children between six and seven years of age<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/22/out-of-sight-out-of-their-minds/" title="Read more" >...</a>