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Naeem SadiqThe News International |
EYEWASH arrangements are usually required at two locations: in industry, to provide emergency eye decontamination when a worker’s eyes are exposed...
No one could be more satisfied and self-congratulatory in celebrating the World Children's Day on 20th November than the Child Right Bureaucrats of...
THE least a state must know about its citizens is the date of their birth and the date they expire — also a legal requirement for all perishable...
The fact that we know of only 4,213 cases of child abuse in 2023 is an insult to common sense and arithmetic. About 26 million children are not...
IMAGINE a country where 99.9 per cent of the citizens cannot file their complex and convoluted tax returns without hiring the services of tax lawyers....
ON Feb 28, 2013, the then interior minister Rehman Malik, in a written reply, informed the National Assembly (NA) that his ministry issued 11,776...
THIS article is not intended to be sarcastic, impolite, cheeky, critical, disrespectful, or defamatory. It is, in fact, intended to be just the...
OF the 79 miners who have died since Jan 1, 2024, in Pakistan’s deadly coal mines, not a single one was registered with the EOBI. They were all born...
I am a 1300cc Toyota Corolla, one of the 150,000 or so government cars purchased with funds extracted from the taxpayers. The story of our life is...
UNDISPUTEDLY, the most important, most versatile and most indispensable person in a government office is the naib qasid, often the only moving...
This is a true story. Dhany Bux is a real-life character with flesh and bones just like you and me. He even has a CNIC, which declares him a human...
AMONG the comity of nations, Sweden stands out for its high standard of living, technological innovations (Spotify, Minecraft, Skype, Saab, Volvo,...
“All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are.” — George Orwell...
OTHER than the oft-quoted figure of over 300 coal miners dying in Pakistan’s coal mines every year, the exact number of mines, their workforce,...
TO run short of dollars is bad. To run out of ideas is worse. Pakistan could have explored numerous ideas of improving the quality of its future...
ARTICLE 38(e) of the Constitution requires the state to promote the social and economic well-being of the people by “reduc[ing] disparity in the...