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Pakistan’s Budgets Perpetuate Economic Stagnation

Pakistan’s recent stabilisation has bought time.

#PakistanBudget #Economy

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Pakistan’s Robotics Future Must Be Built In Labs, Not Imported In Boxes

Pakistan’s robotics debate is still too often framed as a choice between fascination and fear.

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Strait Of Hormuz Exemplifies Crisis Of Modern Jurisprudence

Let me offer a rule that peacemakers have long understood.

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Structural Silence: Understanding The Constraints On Pakistani Minorities

As humans, we all tend to be vessels to a varied collection of sayings, narratives, and perspectives.

#Minorities

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Meet The Conservators Behind The Lahore Fort Picture Wall Project

In 2015, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, in partnership with the Walled City of Lahore Authority, decided to initiate the conservation work in Lahore Fort with the most glorious component of the Fort complex.

#Lahore

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Synthetic Empathy And The Loneliness Industry

“The ultimate tragedy of the tech-driven age is not that machines will begin to think like humans, but that humans will begin to think like machines”—Sydney J.

#SyntheticEmpathy #LonelinessIndustry

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Why Pakistan Will Not Join The Abraham Accords

President Donald Trump’s renewed call for countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Qatar to join the Abraham Accords has once again sparked speculation about whether Islamabad might be preparing to shift one of its longest-held foreign policy…

#AbrahamAccords #ForeignPolicy

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Youm-E-Takbeer And Pakistan’s Nuclear Doctrine

Youm-e-Takbeer is commemorated each year on May 28, marking Pakistan’s response to India’s nuclear weapon tests in both 1974 and 1998.

#YoumeTakbeer #NuclearDoctrine

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Master-Servant Legacy: How Colonial Law Still Rules Pakistan’s Workforce

On the 14th of August 1947, Pakistan came into existence carrying with it something its founders had never intended to inherit: an employment law designed to keep workers in their place.

#Leader