Punjab govt to go Web3.0 to control data breach

Lahore: The Punjab government has decided to adopt Web3.0 – a technology that can decentralise web and control data leakage, selling and hacking. Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi constituted a 22-member committee, led b...

Will the fire cease?

After prosecuting the most intense ethnic cleansing exercise in modern history for 15 months, Tel Aviv and Washington have finally agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. The pact, brokered by Qatar’s emirs, provides for tem...

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Is it time for basic income in Pakistan?

Social assistance is everywhere conditional, and in Pakistan it is no different. Either it comes with behavioural strings attached — ‘do this and we’ll help you, don’t and we won’t’ — or it is targeted, with receip...

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Against children

Why is this country so against its own children and its own future? Are you sur-prised by this question? Look at some of the statistics and facts below and see if the question is still surprising. Some 40 per cent of our chil...

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India’s dangerous game

The latest inflammatory remarks by India’s military brass about Pakistan mark a troubling departure from the professional restraint expected of senior defence officials. Gen Upendra Dwivedi’s labelling of Pakistan as an “e...

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World Bank loan

That the World Bank will give $20bn to Pakistan in the next 10 years to address some of the country’s most acute development challenges, including but not limited to stunting, learning poverty, climate change, and a collapsing...

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