Editorials for the Month of August, 2015
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Email: [email protected] August 2015 Asghar Khan case ............................................................................. 24 Contents Sindh CM’s objections ...................................................................... 25 300 million Pakistanis ........................................................................ 3 Brutal gun culture ............................................................................ 26 Evicting the poor ................................................................................ 3 Saudi suicide attack .......................................................................... 27 After Mullah Omar ............................................................................. 5 Afghanistan: future uncertain .......................................................... 28 Special Olympics gold......................................................................... 6 Blogger’s killing ................................................................................ 29 Prosecutors’ exodus ........................................................................... 6 Slum settlements ............................................................................. 30 Time to move on ................................................................................ 7 Child abuse scandal .......................................................................... 31 Monsoon havoc ................................................................................. 8 Film revival? ..................................................................................... 32 NLC and beyond ................................................................................. 9 Victims of abuse ............................................................................... 33 Security advisers’ meeting ............................................................... 10 Long road ahead .............................................................................. 34 Cricket triumph ................................................................................ 11 Obama’s ‘audacity’ ........................................................................... 35 District universities .......................................................................... 12 Doctors’ accountability .................................................................... 36 Altaf Hussain’s diatribe .................................................................... 13 Ghani’s remarks ............................................................................... 37 Ban on plastic bags........................................................................... 14 Crash of 2008 ................................................................................... 38 Traders vs FBR .................................................................................. 15 Sign of a course correction? ............................................................. 39 Difficult, yet necessary ..................................................................... 16 Police clean-up ................................................................................. 40 Hepatitis treatment ......................................................................... 17 Up in smoke? .................................................................................... 41 IDPs’ funding crunch ........................................................................ 18 Falling exports .................................................................................. 41 Supreme Court judgement .............................................................. 19 MQM resignations ........................................................................... 42 Ulema against polio ......................................................................... 20 Military court trials........................................................................... 43 A difficult decision ............................................................................ 21 Rescuing Iraq .................................................................................... 45 Traffic crackdown ............................................................................. 22 Ceding space .................................................................................... 45 Helicopter crash ............................................................................... 23 Vigorous celebrations ...................................................................... 46 WWW.THECSSPOINT.COM Page 1 August 2015 Trading with China ........................................................................... 47 Lest we forget .................................................................................. 69 Needless firestorm ........................................................................... 48 Speaker unseated ............................................................................. 71 Awards and patronage ..................................................................... 49 Palmyra in peril ................................................................................ 72 Heritage protection .......................................................................... 50 Electronic Media Code of Conduct 2015: Regulating the media ..... 73 Ties with Iran .................................................................................... 51 Medicine danger .............................................................................. 74 Economic diplomacy ........................................................................ 52 Threat of sectarianism ..................................................................... 75 Attock tragedy .................................................................................. 53 SC’s civic interventions ..................................................................... 76 Hameed Gul ..................................................................................... 54 Financial market gyrations ............................................................... 77 Transport ‘incentives’ ...................................................................... 55 Karachi’s dilemma ............................................................................ 78 Devouring forests ............................................................................. 55 LNG imports sputter ......................................................................... 79 Lack of clarity ................................................................................... 56 Madressah clean-up? ....................................................................... 80 Modi in the UAE ............................................................................... 57 PSL in Doha ....................................................................................... 81 ‘Ghost’ pensioners ........................................................................... 58 Fiscal straitjacket .............................................................................. 81 Food safety campaign ...................................................................... 59 Brahmdagh Bugti’s changed stance ................................................. 82 Saving the houbara .......................................................................... 60 Rangers’ mandate ............................................................................ 83 Banks’ attitude ................................................................................. 61 By-elections indicated ...................................................................... 84 LG polls on the horizon .................................................................... 62 High-denomination notes ................................................................ 85 Chairlift incident ............................................................................... 63 Turkey-PKK tensions......................................................................... 86 Taking stock ..................................................................................... 64 Integrated stock market ................................................................... 87 The final battle? ............................................................................... 65 Working Boundary violence ............................................................. 88 India-Pakistan spectacle ................................................................... 66 Agitational politics ........................................................................... 89 Farmers’ case ................................................................................... 67 Tragedy of migrants ......................................................................... 90 MQM’s dilemma .............................................................................. 68 LG polls for capital ...........................................................................