Reading Time: 4 minutes The sad reality of service jobs being seen as lesser than for most of the middle-class alongside a lot of problems associated with finding remote-work, most Pakistanis are thus left to those two kinds of models of trying to get a higher education. Most Universities in Pakistan…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Around 90% of Pakistan’s enterprises are small-scale businesses, employing 80 % of non-agricultural human resources and contributing almost 40 % to the country’s GDP. According to SMEDA’s annual report, there were approximately two million SMEs in Pakistan in 2013, employing fifteen million people, excluding sole proprietors…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government of Pakistan envisioned improving the accessibility of reliable housing and promoting the construction sector in hopes of generating economic activities. One way to achieve their vision was to gradually increase the construction of housing units in the coming years. Fortunately, the government was successful…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The working man requires something that can ease his woes. Pakistan’s People’s Party, quite surprisingly, has come out as a very unlikely hero in this situation. Or have they? The recently started People’s Bus Service has caused a lot of debate in online circles, and within…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Urban flooding has devastating effects on cities, especially cities in Pakistan. The government usually blames these consequences on the severity of monsoon rains and climate change, but these are not the sole subjects of the issue. Poor planning is one of the main reasons for Karachi…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Depp v Heard trial might be the biggest televised trial since the OJ Simpson trial. In both cases, the verdict has been reached and has caused massive waves across the mainstream media sphere. Since the beginnings of the trial itself, social media sites have been…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The effects of colonialism on us South Asians has been catastrophic. This is a known fact, and the cultural, moral, material, and even spiritual impact of the white man on the subcontinent has been so detrimental that the effects are being felt to this day.
Reading Time: 4 minutes What exactly is Whataboutism? What does it entail? What is its history? And how can we sharpen our frame of analysis to be able to look through it, and overcome it in order to work towards better discourse?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Among the crops grown in Pakistan, wheat, rice, and cotton play a significant and positive role in the country’s GDP. Despite the importance of agriculture to the economy of Pakistan, the sector faces problems in keeping itself stable. Recent events, however, may bring positive changes.
Reading Time: 4 minutes military operations in the region, tourism flourished once again. Shah reported, “Foreign tourists were not allowed to move without armed escorts in previous years,” Shah said. “This year, they were allowed free movement and the opportunity to communicate with the locals.”