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Pakistani Theatre’s Dimming Light

Reading Time: 4 minutes A play held in a theatre is much more than actors reciting their lines, sets being changed on the platform, music reverberating through the space, or a sense of being pulled into the play itself. Many forget that theatre has shaped nations. Whenever a country has…

ByThe Crux TeamOctober 8, 20220Comments

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The Growth of the Gaming Industry during the Pandemic

Reading Time: 5 minutes The video gaming industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. In the US alone, the video gaming sector is an approximately $200 billion industry and is expected to reach around $270 billion by 2025. In a recent study, it was found that out…

BySeirut JavedOctober 5, 20220Comments

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Dengue Virus-An Underrated Scourge?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Dengue fever, also known as “breakbone fever” is on the rise in Pakistan, and it does not seem like there will be any let-ups this time around. Spread by mosquitoes, the virus is rearing its head in the business capital of the country Karachi, and is…

BySaad RashidOctober 3, 20220Comments

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Interior Sindh: A Death Zone for Kidneys

Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a major rise in the incidence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) all over the world. It was ranked 27th in the list of causes of total number of worldwide deaths in 1990, but rose to 18th in 2010. It is unique among other chronic ailments, due…

BySaad RashidOctober 1, 20220Comments

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Lack of Passport Privilege of Pakistanis

Before passports became standardized in 1920 by the League of Nations, border restrictions were not so staunch globally. The first version of the passport was documentation that allowed an individual to pass through a gate or “porte” of a city. The documents allowed the holder a free of charge entry into the region. During World…

BySeirut JavedSeptember 25, 20220Comments

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Growing Informal Sector of Pakistan’s Economy

Reading Time: 4 minutes The informal sector of the Pakistani economy, largely invisible on the official plane, is responsible for 35% of the country’s GDP. According to the Labour Force Survey 2020-2021, 70% of non-agricultural employment is based in the informal sector, and 76.2% of it is in rural regions.…

BySeirut JavedSeptember 19, 20220Comments

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College Loans: Are they viable in Pakistan?

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…

ByKhudeeja AsifSeptember 13, 20220Comments

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A Climate Catastrophe: The Devastating Floods in Pakistan

Reading Time: 4 minutes More than a decade ago, there was a similar spike in monsoon rains in the region which caused unprecedented amounts of flooding and loss of life and resources. It took years for the country to recover and a lot of the related damages are yet to…

BySaad RashidSeptember 9, 20220Comments

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Health Insurance – An Underrated Necessity

Reading Time: 3 minutes Pakistan is amongst the lowest spenders on Healthcare, with only 5% of total government expenditure made out for it. Comparing to Iran which spends 22% of the total expenditure on health. More than half of Pakistan’s health expenditure is out of pocket and thus only the…

BySaad RashidSeptember 2, 20220Comments

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How Can Pakistan’s Government Promote Small Scale Businesses?

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…

ByFatima AsifAugust 30, 20220Comments

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