In a stark warning delivered in Karachi, World Bank President Ajay Banga emphasised the urgent need for Pakistan to create up to 30 million jobs over the next decade or risk instability and mass migration. That means roughly 2.5 to three million new jobs each year, a daunting reality considering Islamabad’s planning board has recently […]
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Burden of Beginnings
History offers few moments as revealing as the opening chapters of a century. The first quarter of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries stands as parallel studies in contradiction, periods marked simultaneously by extraordinary innovation and profound instability. Like two mirrors facing each other across time, these eras reflect the enduring struggle between humanity’s highest ambitions […]
The Burden of Promise
In the complex arena of global affairs, a nation’s true legacy is measured not just by its achievements on the world stage, but by how those successes transform the daily lives of its people. Pakistan, positioned at the heart of Asia and the Middle East, has recently secured a string of diplomatic victories that have […]
The Chief Minister’s Burden
There are seasons in the life of a nation when irony turns into prophecy. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has entered one of those seasons. Its new chief minister does not carry the burden of a promise but the weight of a police file. Three simple numbers whisper across the record – 341, 188, 149 – each a […]
Tackling the HIV burden
The acquired immune deficiency syndrome counts among the deadliest diseases of our time. The human immunodeficiency virus interferes with the immune system, making one vulnerable to other infections, which are otherwise less likely to affect one. In the absence of a vigorous treatment, an HIV infection leads to AIDS. A treatment to kill the HIV […]