Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts tagged as “shows”

Too many housemaids, too few skilled workers

By Apsara Rodrigo in The Island, Dec 17, 2023There are indications of a growing mismatch between recruitment of Sri Lankan workers (supply) and global job vacancies (demand) in foreign employment, with increasing supply shortages – especially for skilled jobs, a World Bank report shows. “You have overseas workers that are sending remittances to Sri Lanka; however there is a difference in their skills,” Shobana Sosale co-author of the World Bank report, ‘Enhancing Skills in Sri…

SC shows guts as Bandial retires

by Hasnaat Malik in The Express Tribune, Oct 27, 2023ISLAMABAD: Soon after the retirement of chief justice Umar Ata Bandial, the Supreme Court is showing its muscles by giving decisions in the ongoing month that may affect the interests of the ‘powerful circles’. A five-judge bench led by Justice Ijazul Ahsan has given an unprecedented ruling by declaring a 56-year-old law to try civilians in military courts as unconstitutional. The bench also held that the…

North Waziristan Attack

Editorial in The Nation, February 13th, 2023The security situation in KP continues to be extremely frag­ile as on Saturday, at least three people were killed and 22 others were injured in a suicide attack on a convoy of a pe­troleum company in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan district. Once again, the TTP has claimed responsibility for the attack and it shows that the group continues to have the upper hand thus far in…