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China’s Aid in the Future of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pakistan’s SUPARCO signed an agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Aerospace Industry in 1991, after a decades-long lull. The majority of reasons for this elongated respite revolves around the entirety of the country’s focus concentrating on furthering the development of nuclear technology, which left SUPARCO way…

ByKashmala KhalidJuly 26, 20220Comments

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The Hajj “Lottery”: What does it mean?

Reading Time: 4 minutes How many quotas are allowed to each country is largely dependent on their Muslim population but the Saudi Government and the various countries allotted these quotas are constantly under a barrage of allegations of being corrupt or mismanaging these quotas.

BySaad RashidJuly 6, 20220Comments

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Tackling the Petro-Crisis

Reading Time: 5 minutes Despite efforts across the world for many years, and there being existing technology that is both cost-effective and good for the environment that can replace tech requiring fossil fuels, we are still very much dependent on the very thing that is killing our planet. Not only…

BySaad RashidJuly 3, 20220Comments

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The Why and How of Becoming a Sustainable Household

Sustainability is the word of the day. Well, more like the word of the century at this point. Short-term economic benefits have seduced most of humanity into shooting themselves in the foot-in the long-term. Cutting down trees, pumping fossil fuel exhaust into the air, burning plastics and petroleum products, dumping micro-plastics into the sea. So…

BySaad RashidJune 22, 20220Comments

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Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: What Did We Learn?

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…

ByKhudeeja AsifJune 7, 20220Comments

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Why Tax dodgers hurt the poor: A look at the reality of Tax evasion

Reading Time: 4 minutes Rs 310 Billion worth of tax dodging occurs in Pakistan annually. And this too, from just five sectors. To put that into perspective, this is three times as much as the total budget allocation to the HEC, both developmental and non-developmental.

BySaad RashidMay 26, 20220Comments

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How Colonial Era Famines still Effect us

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.

BySaad RashidMay 11, 20221Comment

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What about Whataboutism?

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?

ByKhudeeja AsifMay 9, 20220Comments

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Zakat and Charity Management

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pakistan has a very complex relationship with charity. On one hand, a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. On the other hand, Pakistan is one of the most charitable countries in the world where close to one percent of its GDP is donated…

BySaad RashidApril 21, 20220Comments

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The History and Nature of Bureaucracy

Reading Time: 4 minutes According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Vincent de Gournay coined the term Bureaucracy in the 1700s. The word is derived from the French word for table. So now we know why a Bureau is a Bureau and there is, in fact, a connection between the two seemingly…

BySaad RashidApril 18, 20222Comments

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