The European Commission’s report on Pakistan under the GSP+ framework is neither unique nor the first of its kind. Europe keeps issuing reports and resolutions on Pakistan with remarkable regularity. The question is: what exactly is the problem? Where does it lie? And what has gone wrong? Pakistan’s problem is certainly not that its case […]
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Traffic Conundrum
Traffic accidents in Pakistan are a natural phenomenon at this point and have become unavoidable yet they do not get the same seriousness as many other fatal incidents. It could be attributed to daily occurrence and desensitization yet that is not enough to explain the blasé attitude of officials, citizens, and drivers alike. The crux […]
Clues emerge in ‘missing’ ocean plastics conundrum
It’s a puzzle that has perplexed scientists for years: humanity dumps millions of tonnes of plastics into the world’s oceans annually, yet only a tiny fraction remains visible on the surface. Now an international team of researchers believe they may be closer to determining where Earth’s “missing plastics” end up, using an unprecedented global effort […]
The information conundrum
On 6 April, a reporter posted on Twitter that the former Finance Minister of Pakistan, Miftah Ismail “tried to escape Pakistan” and that he was “stopped at Karachi airport” after his name had been “recommended to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL)”.The tweet was retweeted over a thousand times and “liked” over 4000 […]