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Mar

Scottish Muslim leader’s rise underlines ‘new norm’ in UK

Published in Pakistan Today on March 28, 2023 LONDON: The jury is out on whether Humza Yousaf can deliver independence for Scotland. But history’s verdict will be clear on the 37-year-old’s breakthrough as the first Muslim Pakistan-origin leader of a western European democracy. The newly-elected head of the Scottish National Party (SNP) joins the growing ranks of […]

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Mar

Income inequality and poverty in Pakistan

By Shahid Javed Burki Published in The Express Tribune on March 27, 2023 In the article today, I will write about how I read Pakistan’s more than 75-year history covering economic, social and political developments. I will deploy some theoretical advances to speculate the directions in which the country seems to be headed in the near term.[…]

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Mar

Leveraging diaspora

By Aisha Khan Published in Dawn on March 26, 2023 IN its original formulation, diaspora referred to the dispersal of the Jewish people following the destruction of the First Temple. In the mid-19th century it was adopted by the Moravian Church to describe its congregation, and in the 20th century it was extended to a limited number[…]