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Economic crisis hits hard: 60.5% households struggle

REPORT IN Daily Mirror, Dec 28, 2023The economic crisis is bearing on people with as many as 60.5 percent of households finding their monthly average incomes reduced while 91.0 percent of households experiencing an increase in their monthly expenditure levels, according to a survey by the Department of Census and Statistics. The Department traced back the origin of the crisis to the 2019 Easter Sunday attack, said it was exacerbated by the pandemic. The survey…

Revamping Nacta

by Tariq Parvez in Dawn, January 14th, 2023The writer was Nacta’s first national coordinator.A COMMON question being asked these days is: why has the resurgence of terrorism, after the latter was significantly reduced during 2010-2020, not been prevented in 2021? The answer is simple: although we adopted the right short-term tactics to combat it, we erred in formulating and implementing a long-term proactive strategy. During terrorism’s decline, we continued with the short-term approach of depending…