by Zafar Mirza in Dawn, January 13th, 2023by The writer is a former SAPM on health, professor of health systems at Shifa Tameer-i-Millat University and WHO adviser on UHC.PAKISTAN now has not only the fifth largest population in the world but it also bears a very heavy burden of disease. Also, negative determinants of health or risks to health abound and are on the rise. The combined effect of these three factors is harrowing. At…
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report in Prothom Alo , 13 Jan 2023,Bangladesh faces five major risks in the next two years with sustained inflation, debt crises and severe commodity price shocks being the top three challenges for its economy, said a report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Besides, human-made environmental damage and geopolitical contestation of resources are the rest two risks the nation might face in the short term, according to WEF’s The Global Risks Report 2023,…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in ToloNews, Dec 31, 2022 at 10:56 PMAfghanistan’s politics faced many ups and downs in 2022. The Islamic Emirate’s administration was not recognized by any country in the world. Moreover, the travel ban exemption for 13 Islamic Emirate officials was not extended. This year, Afghanistan’s seat in the UN was not given to the Islamic Emirate. The United Nations General Assembly decided on December 16 that the representative of the previous…
by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar in Dawn, Dec 23rd, 2022The writer teaches at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.IT has been 14 months since Afghanistan was handed over to the Taliban by the most fearsome military force the world has ever known, the US army. For most of this time the narrative has been that the regime in Kabul is markedly different from the one that ruled in the 1990s, willing and able to conform to liberal norms of…