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    Accountability

    Two Pakistani Journalists Assassinated in Two Days

    Two Pakistani journalists were murdered by unidentified assailants on 1 and 2 July. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate, the...
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    Civil society

    Diversity, Inclusion and the Young

    The youth policies the governments in Pakistan and other countries of SouthAsia develop are normally full of cliches that regurgitate the same banal statements....
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    Agri-technology

    Digital Training in Pakistani Villages Yields Bumper Participation

    Pakistan agriculture landscape has gone digital. The use of online tools during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated in every domain — from finances to health,...
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    Civil society

    A Look at Democracy in Pakistan –  Part II

    The earlier article, following a talk at Islamabad’s National Institute of Pakistan Studies, put an academic lens on understanding the nexus between Pakistan’s powerful...
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    Afghanistan

    New and Old Afghan Refugees Make the Best of Life in Neighbouring Pakistan

    Pakistan is home to 1.3 million registered refugees and more than double this number of unregistered ones who have fled neighbouring Afghanistan. Most of...
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    Civil society

    A Look at Democracy in Pakistan

    Generals and judges may not be the richest people in the country but powerful they are. So there emerges a nexus among the powerful...
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    Accountability

    What Pakistan’s Worker Says

    The general working conditions for Islamabad's workers are pathetic and labour groups have been demanding elimination of a ruthless-to-the-core contractual system, but to no...
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    Accountability

    Inflation Will Be SouthAsia’s Sore Point in FY 2022, says World Bank Global Economic Prospects Report

    In the face of global stagflation, growth in SouthAsia is forecast to slow down to 6.8 and 5.8 per cent in 2022 and 2023,...
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    Afghan Male University Enrolment Plunges One-Third as Women Vanish from Higher Education

    UNICEF and UNESCO acknowledge that Afghanistan’s education system retains substantial capacity and strong public demand for learning.
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