Newspaper Clippings Month of March 2016

Agriculture  

Jalees Hazir, Agricultural terrorism and poor farmers, The Nation, 24 March 2016, P.06

Biography/interviews  

Rehana Hyder, Sahibzada Yaqub-Khan, The Nation, 14 March 2016, P.07

Harris Bin Munawar, Hamza Ali Abbasi – a non-state actor?, The Nation,15 March 2016, P.06

Dr A Q Khan, Rumi on death, The News, 21 March 2016, P.06

Culture/Society/Women/Human Rights  

Bina Shah, Women`s revolution, Dawn, 17 March. 2015, P.09

Arif Azad, Left to die, Dawn, 23 March. 2015, P.09

 Nilofar  Ahmed , Women`s dignity, Dawn, 25 March. 2015, P.09

Huma  Yusuf, Slow advancement, Dawn, 28 March. 2015, P.09

Staff Reporter, Resolution of the Day, The Nation, 08 March 2016, P.13

Anuradha Gupta, Reaching every child in Pakistan, The Nation, 09 March 2016, P.07

Staff Reporter, Islam gives respect to women: CM, The Nation, 09 March 2016, P.14

Mina Malik-Hussain, In praise of brave girls, The Nation, 28 March 2016, P.06

Zaigham Khan, Women in a mufti’s court, The News, 02 February 2016, P.06

Nasim Zehra, Pakistan in its glory – and gloom, The News, 02 February 2016, P.06

Afiya Shehrbano , The hollywoodisation of issues , The News, 03 February 2016, P.06

Imtiaz Alam , Beyond the girl in the river , The News, 03 February 2016, P.06

Shahzada Irfan Ahmed, The implementation conundrum, The News, 16 March 2016, P.06

Mehnaz Aziz, Hungry children, The News, 19 March 2016, P.06

Dr Ashraf Ali, In the name of honour, The News, 30 March 2016, P.06

Economics  

Farhan Bokhari, The dark side, Dawn, 24 March. 2015, P.09

Dr Kamal Monnoo, A case of devaluation, The Nation, 02 March 2016, P.07

Huzaifa Akhtar, The corridor to prosperity, The Nation, 07 March 2016, P.06

Senator M Ishaq Dar, Public debt management, The Nation, 19 March 2016, P.07

Huzaifa Akhtar, Beggars, not choosers, The Nation, 22 March 2016, P.06

Saleem Safi, The CPEC: a clash of interests, The News, 05 March 2016, P.06

Dr Shahid Siddiqui, Development: the imperialist way, The News, 07 March 2016, P.06

Atta-ur-Rahman, Innovative development, The News, 09 March 2016, P.06

Abid Hasan, Taxing traders: right goal, wrong strategy, The News, 12 March 2016, P.06

Shahid Mehmood, The paradox of work, The News, 14 March 2016, P.06

Dr Akmal Hussain, The injustice of inequality, The News, 17 March 2016, P.06

Saleem Safi, Incomparable deception, The News, 22 March 2016, P.06

Atta-ur-Rahman, The STI vision, The News, 23 March 2016, P.06

Education/Language & Literature  

Idress  Khawaja, HEC`s rankings, Dawn, 03 March. 2015, P.09

Anjum  Altaf, Language functions, Dawn, 13 March. 2015, P.09

Rukhsana Shah, Enhancing skills, Dawn, 21 March. 2015, P.09

Dr Farid A Malik, Have our Universities failed?, The Nation, 09 March 2016, P.06

Zahaid Rehman, Private schools versus the state, The Nation, 12 March 2016, P.07

Mina Malik-Hussain, In praise of festivals , The Nation, 21 March 2016, P.06

Zubair Torwali, Forum for language, The News, 05 March 2016, P.06

Anjum Altaf, Clarity on language, The News, 11 March 2016, P.06

Iftekhar A Khan, Admission season, The News, 14 March 2016, P.06

Dr Shahid Siddiqui, Indigenous Indian education, The News, 21 March 2016, P.06

Dr Javaid R Laghari, Ranking universities, The News, 26 March 2016, P.06

Energy  

Raashid Wali Janjua, Energy and security, The News, 01 March 2016, P.06

Environmental Issues and Health Issues  

Murad   Moosa  Khan, Noble profession?, Dawn, 04 March. 2015, P.09

Najib Ul Haq, Pharma challenge, Dawn, 20 March. 2015, P.09

Zeenat  Hisam, Collective struggle, Dawn, 30March. 2015, P.09

Javid Husain, Transformation of the global security environment, The Nation, 15 March 2016, P.07

Kamran Shariff , Are we serious on climate change?, The Nation, 21 March 2016, P.06

Dr Ahmad Saeed Bhatti, Global Water Day, The Nation, 22 March 2016, P.07

Kamila Hyat , Hidden in the shadows, The News, 03 February 2016, P.07

Shakil Durrani, Fading hopes for wildlife, The News, 15 March 2016, P.06

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Minimising climate change, The News, 16 March 2016, P.06

Binoy Kampmark, Climate change denial, The News, 17 March 2016, P.06

M Saeed Khalid, Adios, Rodolfo, The News, 22 March 2016, P.06

John Groarke, Every drop counts, The News, 22 March 2016, P.06

Dr Cesar Chelala, Healthy children, The News, 25 March 2016, P.07

Beena Sarwar, Polio: one last push, The News, 29 March 2016, P.06

International Relations  

Mahir Ali, UK`s EU dilemma, Dawn, 09 March. 2015, P.09

Huma  Yusuf, Saudi connection, Dawn, 14 March. 2015, P.09

A.G.Noorani, Settle Siachen, Dawn, 26 March. 2015, P.09

Jalees Hazir, Welcoming Presidents Putin and Rouhani, The Nation, 03 March 2016, P.06

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Outdated Indian narrative, The Nation, 04 March 2016, P.07

Muhammad Umar, India’s Pakistan obsession, The Nation, 06 March 2016, P.07

Marvi Sirmed, Afghan peace process, The Nation, 08 March 2016, P.07

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Decades of friendship, The Nation, 11 March 2016, P.06

Iftikhar Ahmad, Justice, peace and stability, The Nation, 15 March 2016, P.07

Ali Rizvi, Controversial alliance, The Nation, 18 March 2016, P.06

Dr Syed Nazir Gilani, Dangers of bad British advice on Pak-India dialogue, The Nation, 22 March 2016, P.07

Muhammad Umar, Pakistan will not give Saudi Arabia the Bomb, The Nation, 23 March 2016, P.06

President Hassan Rouhani, A Special Message for the People of Pakistan,The Nation, 25 March 2016, P.07

Dr Ahmad Rashid Malik, Ties with Turkmenistan, The Nation, 26 March 2016, P.06

Javid Husain, Iranian President’s visit to Pakistan, The Nation, 29 March 2016, P.06

Shahzad Chaudhry, Strategic restraint, The News, 11 March 2016, P.06

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Strategic partnership, The News, 12 March 2016, P.06

Saleem Safi, Comparing media, The News, 16 March 2016, P.06

Shahzad Chaudhry, Negotiating deterrence, The News, 18 March 2016, P.06

Zamir Akram, Dialogue with the deaf, The News, 19 March 2016, P.06

Kashmir  

Dr Syed Nazir Gilani, Kashmir and new Pak-US strategy, The Nation, 11 March 2016, P.07

K. Iqbal, Kashmir conflict and British culpability, The Nation, 14 March 2016, P.07

Law  

Zeenat   Hisam, Justice & impunity, Dawn, 06 March. 2015, P.09

Irfan  Husain, Justice delayed, Dawn, 12 March. 2015, P.09

Saad Rasool, The Qadri case, The Nation, 06 March 2016, P.07

Asher A. Qazi, Birds and judicial politics, The Nation, 11 March 2016, P.07

Saad Rasool, Judicial empowerment, The Nation, 27 March 2016, P.07

Miscellaneous  

Irfan Husain, Only in Karachi, Dawn, 19 March. 2015, P.09

Marvi Sirmed, Mumtaz Qadri & death penalty, The Nation, 01 March 2016, P.06

Harris Bin Munawar, It takes two to fly, The Nation, 01 March 2016, P.06

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Owning Qadri, disowning Sharmeen, The Nation,03 March 2016, P.07

Afzal Hussain, Pakistani passport came second-to-last, The Nation, 04 March 2016, P.06

Marria Qibtia Sikandar Nagra, Incongruous social attitudes, The Nation, 07 March 2016, P.07

Faizan Ali Warraich, Women celebrate their day, The Nation, 09 March 2016, P.14

Samson Simon Sharaf, Pakistan’s multi layered perspectives Part 3, The Nation, 12 March 2016, P.06

Atle Hetland, Have I told you lately?, The Nation, 17 March 2016, P.07

Khalid Jamshed, Brandishing a rusty sword...., The Nation, 20 March 2016, P.07

Zahaid Rehman, On the revival of student unions, The Nation, 27 March 2016, P.07

Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Reflections on Pakistan Day, The Nation, 28March 2016, P.07

Madiha Tahir & Mahvish Ahmad, The law of the father, The News, 02 February 2016, P.06

Noman Sattar, An inconvenient truth, The News, 05 March 2016, P.06

Zaigham Khan, Silver lining or false dawn?, The News, 07 March 2016, P.06

Abbas Hasan, The Sahiwal power plant, The News, 11 March 2016, P.06

Mosharraf Zaidi, Ghairat, beghairtee and an Oscar award, The News, 15 March 2016, P.07

Rahimullah Yusufzai, A tale of kidnapping, The News, 16 March 2016, P.06

Zaigham Khan, Insult the Baloch, The News, 21 March 2016, P.06

Shamshad Ahmad, Whither Quaid’s Pakistan?, The News, 23 March 2016, P.06

Nasim Zehra, For cricket, with love, The News, 23 March 2016, P.06

Imtiaz Alam, Dilemmas of the Pakistan Project, The News, 24 March 2016, P.06

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Politics/International Politics  

Niaz  Murtaza, Tale of two CPECs, Dawn, 01 March. 2015, P.09

A . G. Noorani, Legitimate dissent, Dawn, 05 March. 2015, P.09

F.S. Aijazuddin, Today`s tempest, Dawn, 10 March. 2015, P.09

Niaz Murtaza, Party leadership, Dawn, 15 March. 2015, P.09

 Shahab  Usto , Lost wings, Dawn, 22 March. 2015, P.09

Shakaib  Qureshi, Changing gears, Dawn, 27 March. 2015, P.09

Owen  B ennet  Jones, Art of diplomacy, Dawn, 31 March. 2015, P.09

Javid Husain, Democracy in action, The Nation, 01 March 2016, P.07

Dr Farid A Malik, PML-N vs PML-Q, The Nation, 02 March 2016, P.06

Zahaid Rehman, Another day, another party, The Nation, 05 March 2016, P.06

Afrasiab Khattak, Iran’s new political alignment, The Nation, 05 March 2016, P.07

Mohsin Raza Malik, Maneuvering MQM, The Nation, 09 March 2016, P.07

Jalees Hazir, Imperial stooges and national interest, The Nation, 10 March 2016, P.06

Hassan Javid, The power of the PML-N, The Nation, 13 March 2016, P.06

Saad Rasool, A moment of reflection, The Nation, 13 March 2016, P.07

Marvi Sirmed, Prioritising strategic interests, The Nation, 15 March 2016, P.06

Dr Farid A Malik, Who will lead us?, The Nation, 16 March 2016, P.06

Mohsin Raza Malik, Probing the MQM-RAW nexus, The Nation, 16 March 2016, P.07

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Secular, liberal PML-N?, The Nation, 17 March 2016, P.07

M A Niazi, Turmoil in the MQM, The Nation, 18 March 2016, P.06

Ayesha Ahmed, Bull in a china shop, The Nation, 18 March 2016, P.07

Samson Simon Sharaf, Pakistan’s multi layered perspectives Part 4, The Nation, 19 March 2016, P.06

K. Iqbal, Afghanistan’s fog of talks, The Nation, 21 March 2016, P.07

Dr Qaisar Rashid, The escape, The Nation, 21 March 2016, P.07

Dr Farid A Malik, Leader and the led, The Nation, 23 March 2016, P.06

M A Niazi, An unwell commando, The Nation, 25 March 2016, P.06

Afrasiab Khattak, After Musharraf’s departure, The Nation, 26 March 2016, P.07

Hassan Javid, Against discretionary funds for MNAs, The Nation, 27 March 2016, P.06

Harris Bin Munawar, This is not an article, The Nation, 29 March 2016, P.06

Dr Farid A Malik, New leader, old script?, The Nation, 30 March 2016, P.06

Dr Kamal Monnoo, TPP from an American perspective, The Nation, 30 March 2016, P.06

Harris Khalique, Politics of identity, politics of class, The News, 02 February 2016, P.07

Muddassir Rizvi , Transparency for trust , The News, 03 February 2016, P.06

Syed Talat Hussain, Coconut Republic, The News, 07 March 2016, P.07

Hussain H Zaidi, Intra-party despotism, The News, 08 March 2016, P.06

Nasim Zehra, Engineering a new MQM, The News, 09 March 2016, P.06

Harris Khalique, The MQM tamasha, The News, 09 March 2016, P.07

Dr Ikramul Haq, Remembering a black day, The News, 10 March 2016, P.06

M Saeed Khalid, Diplomacy, anyone?, The News, 10 March 2016, P.06

Imtiaz Alam, Politics of chauvinism, The News, 10 March 2016, P.06

Ayaz Amir, Strange logic of the liberated classes, The News, 11 March 2016, P.06

Hussain H Zaidi, The return of ‘minus-one’, The News, 12 March 2016, P.06

Zaigham Khan, A new leader for Karachi, The News, 14 March 2016, P.06

Ayaz Ahmed, The OIC and Palestine, The News, 15 March 2016, P.06

Hashim bin Rashid, The Musharraf farce, The News, 21 March 2016, P.06

Adnan Randhawa, Course correction, The News, 24 March 2016, P.06

Shahzad Chaudhry, Democracy in distress, The News, 25 March 2016, P.06

Muddassir Rizvi, A billion dollar election, The News, 26 March 2016, P.06

Dr A Q Khan, G T Road general , The News, 28 March 2016, P.06

Iftekhar A Khan, Unwarranted criticism, The News, 28 March 2016, P.00

Cesar Chelala, The US role in Argentina, The News, 29 March 2016, P.06

Ayaz Ahmed, China vs America: the new cold war, The News, 30 March 2016, P.06

Religion  

Zarrar  Khuro , The roots that clutch, Dawn, 07 March. 2015, P.09

Nikhat   Sattar, Islamic morals, Dawn, 11 March. 2015, P.09

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Separating state and Islam, The Nation, 10 March 2016, P.07

M A Niazi, What the hanging showed, The Nation, 11 March 2016, P.06

Atle Hetland, The mystery of Easter, The Nation, 24 March 2016, P.07

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Inopportune defensiveness about Islam, The Nation, 24 March 2016, P.07

Jalees Hazir, Another kind of blasphemy, The Nation, 31 March 2016, P.06

Talat Farooq, Tweak them instead, The News, 17 March 2016, P.06

Ayaz Amir, Holy fathers…the search for relevance, The News, 18 March 2016, P.06

Science & Information Technology  

K. Iqbal, Our nuclear and debt bombs, The Nation, 07 March 2016, P.06

Muhammad Azam Khan, Nuclear and naval stability, The Nation, 16 March 2016, P.07

Masood Khan, Understanding Nuclear Security Summits, The Nation, 31 March 2016, P.07

Dr Adil Sultan, Nuclear security summit, The News, 23 March 2016, P.06

Topic of the Month - Women Protection Bill  

Sherry Rehman, In the cross hairs, Dawn, 08 March. 2015, P.09

S Tariq, The right stuff, The Nation, 03 March 2016, P.06

Hassan Javid, Protecting women?, The Nation, 06 March 2016, P.06

Harris Bin Munawar, A man’s place is in the home, The Nation, 08 March 2016, P.06

Atle Hetland, Till we see something else, The Nation, 10 March 2016, P.07

Mina Malik-Hussain, On running amok, The Nation, 14 March 2016, P.06

Afzal Hussain, Women in occupied Kashmir, The Nation, 14 March 2016, P.06

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Resisting religious blackmail, The Nation, 18 March 2016, P.07

Hassan Javid, Support the Women Protection Bill!, The Nation, 20 March 2016, P.06

Saad Rasool, Bearded hypocrisy, The Nation, 20 March 2016, P.07

Hafsa Khawaja, The need for cultural currency, The Nation, 25 March 2016,P.06

Jagoda Munic, We are all Berta, The News, 10 March 2016, P.07

Babar Sattar, The wifebeater’s worldview, The News, 19 March 2016, P.06

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Gender equality, The News, 29 March 2016, P.06

War/Terrorism  

Mohammad Ali Baba Khel, Toys of violence, Dawn, 02 March. 2015, P.09

Moeed  Yusuf, Taliban talks, Dawn, 29 March. 2015, P.09

Mohsin Raza Malik, Pakistan’s Pathankot probe, The Nation, 02 March 2016, P.07

Afrasiab Khattak, Beyond the end of denial, The Nation, 12 March 2016, P.07

Kaleem Dean, Mourning Youhannabad, The Nation, 17 March 2016, P.06

Afrasiab Khattak, Peshawar bleeds again, The Nation, 19 March 2016, P.07

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Making the world a safer place, The Nation, 25March 2016, P.07

Ahsan Kureshi, Of retirement resorts, The Nation, 26 March 2016, P.07

K. Iqbal, The NSS process: letter or spirit?, The Nation, 28 March 2016, P.06

Marvi Sirmed, Extremism feeding the terrorism, The Nation, 29 March 2016, P.07

Mohsin Raza Malik, National security imperatives, The Nation, 30 March 2016, P.07

Atle Hetland, Political engagement and dissent, The Nation, 31 March 2016, P.07

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Getting rid of terrorism, The News, 02 February 2016, P.06

Imtiaz Alam, A divided operation, The News, 31 March 2016, P.06

Dr Akmal Hussain, Countering terrorism, The News, 31 March 2016, P.06

Differences among university students and faculties in social networking site perception and Use Implications for academic library services


Social networking sites (SNSs) are gaining popularity in various areas. Library and information services also are attempting to utilize them for increasing the library user traffic. Considering the lack of SNS studies in academic library services and various SNS usage patterns according to user type, it is necessary to compare the usage patterns across different user groups. This paper thus aims to explore the usages of a SNS by different university users.

As virtual space is becoming increasingly integrated into people’s everyday lives, virtual communications have emerged as a general trend. These days, social networking sites (SNSs) are leading the current stream. SNSs are profile-based web sites that allow users to maintain social relationships by viewing, visiting, and sharing their lists of social connections with other members (boyd and Ellison, 2007). Recently, a new social-network-based library and information service has emerged to create organizational knowledge (Xiaobin and Jing, 2009; Shuhuai et al., 2009) as well as to satisfy information user needs (Charnigo and Barnett-Ellis, 2007). This service more widely known as Facebook Librarian seems to increase reuse of the library service(Mack et al. , 2007). However, the use of such self-maintaining SNSs has presented two challenges to the study of SNSs. Despite some studies (e.g. Lewis et al. , 2008; Tong et al., 2008) focusing on user behaviors on a particular web site or web service, rather than the general understanding of a unified concept of user behaviors, topics of information user behaviors have remained broad, making it difficult to understand various user groups’ usage patterns in academic settings. Another challenge in studying SNS stems from the limited scope of user populations. Although some studies focus primarily on adult populations (e.g. Charnigo and Barnett-Ellis, 2007), others focus on undergraduate students (e.g. Ellison, 2007; Hargittai, 2008; Lewisn et al. , 2008; Tong et al., 2008), adolescents (e.g. Mazeret al., 2007; Valkenburg et al., 2006), or mixed populations (e.g. Liu, 2007). Despite the fact that SNS usage patterns vary depending on the user types (Ellison et al., 2007; Hargittai, 2008), prior studies have ignored comparisons between different groups’ usage patterns. Furthermore, Asian users’ make up a large proportion of usage rates among a significant number of different sites (Hargittai, 2008), yet few studies have focused on this group.

Implications for academic library services

This section provides implications for SNS-based academic library and information services. According to the findings, undergraduate students mostly regard SNS as an entertainment feature. The younger the users are, the faster they extract the maximum utility out of an internet service. Considering this high sensitivity to trends and short usage cycle, SNS-based library service should continuously upgrade its features, reflecting users’ opinions as much as possible. As the undergraduates concentrate heavily on the profile service, most technical support should also be on this service. In addition to the reflection of the continuous user demands, SNS-based service should occasionally launch new, interesting services in order to attract about-to-quit users as well as new potential users. In other words, SNS-based service needs to keep up with new ideas that match the generation’s flow.

Most graduate students already have a long experience using SNS, which may be one reason why they are negative toward the SNS-based service – especially in regards to the profile service. One administrator of Cyworld supports this idea. He said that, in using the specific hit service such as the Minihompy, users might experience some phenomena like “social network fatigue” suggested by Pasick (2004) after a critical point (Lee, 2008). Thus, it is assumed that the graduate students have quit using the profile service and turned toward the community service. With a moderate experience of using the profile service compared to the undergraduate studnets, graduate students no longer find it entertaining. One possible resolution might be to develop high-quality content, which can be done in several ways, whether in collaboration with other entities or by SNS itself. The direction regarding how and what contents SNS-based service should provide should consider users’ needs as much as possible.

In order to attract faculty users, it seems inevitable that SNS-based service should provide a tailored service to them. However, a trade-off exists in this case, as this would mean the degradation of SNS’s original principles – namely, openness. Despite such an obstacle, some faculty members have an account and have experience using it in the past, which implies that some have realized the advantages of the service. Thus,
SNS-based service should appeal to them by emphasizing the benefits of using SNS in terms of social networking and communication.

One of the attractions in which SNS-based service originally drew people together was the private life exposure by uploading pictures and articles about themselves.However, people later recognized that protecting private information is quite important as they faced cyber-terrorism through the profile pages on which personal information is disclosed. Such cases have become increasingly common recently as it is easy to acquire phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other personal information just by skimming through postings. Consequently, such incidents have led to the eventual decline of SNS-based service’s popularity as more and more users have adopted a secret feature in the guestbook and closed down the photo gallery. Since then, many users have continuously demanded more security.

However, a trade-off exists between attraction point and protection. The primary principle of SNS is self-expression and disclosure to the public. However, if SNS-based service provides further security, its original concept – which significantly contributed to its popularity – will be distorted. As it cannot discard this trait, SNS-based service should implement strategies that would balance the trade-off to draw academic users’ attention.

Although people can form relationships instantly with the help of friendship-making system, online socialization has its limits to which one can develop such a relationship into a real one. It is now a trend among college students to make friends through SNS and keep the relationships by visiting each other’s profile pages and sending messages and gifts. However, unfortunately, they do not know with whom they are socializing inreal life. Hence, it is inevitable that two different social ties exist: one for real life friends, and one for online friends. Specifically, friendship-making system offers a “surfing” feature that allows users to visit other users’ profile pages. Due to this feature, many have experienced people whom they dislike or do not know visiting their profiles and asking to become a friend. When such a situation arises, it is very likely that most users simply accept the offer. Users are free to decline the invitation; however, it is very hard to do so because of self-image. This is another major reason the friendship cannot replace real social relationships as it faces a constraint.

On SNS-based service, especially as a place to reveal self-identity, if one builds a selfish image by not accepting the offer, then such a reputation could affect not only virtual image-making but also real-life self-identification. However, if SNS-based service removes friendship-making system or further limits its features, it will lose a large number of users, as it has been one of the most popular features of the service.Thus, it would be better to allow users to control their relationship boundary, such as grouping friends and granting different status by groups so that each group has different permissions to which the members can access contents on their profiles.

Newspaper Clippings Month of February 2016

Agriculture

Zubair Torwali, Writing a dying language, The News, 20 February 2016, P.07

Ayaz Amir, Who’s interested in agriculture?, The News, 26 February 2016, P.06

Biography/interviews

Agencies, Literary legend Intizar Hussain passes away, The Nation, 03 February 2016, P.12

Samson Simon Sharaf, Questions to Barkha Dutt, The Nation, 13 February 2016, P.06

Aijaz Zaka Syed, An India without Aligarh, The News, 05 February 2016, P.07

S Iftikhar Murshed, Sahabzada Yaqub Khan of Pakistan , The News, 06 February 2016, P.06

Culture/ Society/ Women/ Human Rights

Mina Malik-Hussain, On our Culture, The Nation, 15 February 2016, P.06

Zainab Zeeshan Malik, NCHR: Clipped wings, The Nation, 19 February 2016, P.06

Adan Abid, The journey of a child, The Nation, 20 February 2016, P.07

Zahaid Rehman , An end to abuse , The Nation, 27 February 2016, P.07

Gul Bukhari, a glimps into the gutter, The Nation, 28 February 2016, P.07

Harris Khalique, Power to the girls, The News, 03 February 2016, P.07

Anees Jillani, Children at kilns, The News, 05 February 2016, P.06

Shahzada Irfan Ahmed, Bond worth breaking , The News, 17 February 2016, P.06

Economics

Dr Ahmad Rashid Malik, The CPEC booms up, The Nation, 08 February 2016, P.06

K. Iqbal, Balochistan takes lead in CPEC, The Nation, 08 February 2016, P.07

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, A better economic future, The Nation, 12 February 2016, P.07

Samson Simon Sharaf, The politics of loot sale, The Nation, 20 February 2016, P.06

Zain Haider, I, consumer, The Nation, 21 February 2016, P.07

Khalid Jamshed, The year of the great wizard, The Nation, 24 February 2016, P.06

Sikander Ahmed Shah, CPEC challenge, Dawn, 22 Feb. 2015, P.09

Sanaullah Baloch, The Gwadar deal, The News, 13 February 2016, P.06

Danish Khan, The economics of land reform, The News, 22 February 2016, P.06

Education/Language & Literature

Hina Butt, ‘Teaching’ them a lesson, The Nation, 12 February 2016, P.06

Maiza Hameed, Leading from the front , The Nation, 27 February 2016, P.06

Syed Saadat , Ineptitude in CSS, Dawn, 24 Feb. 2015, P.09

Dr Akmal Hussain, The idea of a university, The News, 04 February 2016, P.06

Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, Invest in education, The News, 10 February 2016, P.06

Iftekhar A Khan, Phony degrees, The News, 18 February 2016, P.06

Environmental Issues and Health Issues

Fatima Arif, Ideas that spread, wins , The Nation, 29 February 2016, P.06

Rukhsana Shah, Health education, Dawn, 25 Feb. 2015, P.09

Janette D Sherman & Joseph Mangano, The invisible epidemic, The News, 06 Feb-ruary 2016, P.07

Bill Laurance, Start saying ‘no’, The News, 10 February 2016, P.07

Anees Jillani, The status of health, The News, 11 February 2016, P.00

Dr Arshad Rehan, Healthcare reform in KP, The News, 16 February 2016, P.06

International Relations

Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Sino-Pak friendship: Explaining the variable, The Nation, 07 February 2016, P.07

Iftikhar Ahmad, Afghan peace process, The Nation, 10 February 2016, P.06

Mohammad Hossain Bani Asadi, Message of peace and friendship, The Nation, 12 February 2016, P.07

Lt Gen (retd) Naeem Khalid Lodhi, The future of Indo-Pak relations, The Nation, 15 February 2016, P.07

Afzal Hussain, Obama’s message to the Arab world, The Nation, 16 February 2016, P.06

Dr Ahmad Rashid Malik, Opening Belt and Road, The Nation, 24 February 2016, P.07

Huma Yusuf, Pak-US equation, Dawn, 15 Feb. 2015, P.09

Asad Munir, For a stable Afghanistan, The News, 13 February 2016, P.06

Kashmir

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Solidarity with people of Kashmir, The Nation, 05 Feb-ruary 2016, P.07

Marvi Sirmed, Kashmir solidarity, The Nation, 09 February 2016, P.06

Law

Adnan Randhawa, Transparency in judicial appointments, The Nation, 09 February 2016, P.07

Zeenat Hisam, Misrule of law, Dawn, 23 Feb. 2015, P.09

Asad Rahim Khan, Burdens, reversals, and the Kayani Court, The News, 04 February 2016, P.06

Babar Sattar, An anti-Chaudhry court?, The News, 06 February 2016, P.07

Umer Gilani, No more judges, please, The News, 09 February 2016, P.06

Miscellaneous

Irtiza Shafaat Bokharee, Songs of yesteryear, The Nation, 07 February 2016, P.07

Askari Raza Malik, After the General’s announcement, The Nation, 09 Febru-ary 2016, P.07

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Union Busting, Dawn, 12 Feb. 2015, P.09

Fahmi Zaman, Delayed census, Dawn, 18 Feb. 2015, P.09

D. Suba Chandran, IPL lessons, Dawn, 19 Feb. 2015, P.09

Bina Shah , Art identity, Dawn, 21 Feb. 2015, P.09

Imran Masood, Professionalising the security industry, The News, 08 Febru-ary 2016, P.06

Politics/International Politics

Dr Farid A Malik, Incompetency: Innocent or deliberate?, The Nation, 03 Febru-ary 2016, P.06

S Tariq, Integrity and patriotism, The Nation, 04 February 2016, P.06

Jalees Hazir, Neo-liberal fascism as democracy, The Nation, 04 February 2016, P.06

Samson Simon Sharaf, Getting to grips with dysfunction, The Nation, 06 Febru-ary 2016, P.06

Najma Minhas, Small chance of peace, The Nation, 06 February 2016, P.07

Hassan Javid, Privatising PIA, The Nation, 07 February 2016, P.06

Mohsin Raza Malik, The PIA conundrum, The Nation, 10 February 2016, P.07

Jalees Hazir, Imam Putin and Islam’s custodians, The Nation, 11 February 2016, P.06

M A Niazi, Death in the clouds, The Nation, 12 February 2016, P.06

Dr Farid A Malik, From Jinnah to Sharif, The Nation, 17 February 2016, P.06

Jalees Hazir, Democracy’s soft spot for corruption, The Nation, 18 February 2016, P.06

Atle Hetland, American presidential pretenders, The Nation, 18 February 2016, P.07

Iftikhar Ahmad, Reinventing PIAC – the public enterprise, The Nation, 19 Febru-ary 2016, P.07

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, Politics sans sanity, The Nation, 19 February 2016, P.07

Afrasiab Khattak, Woes of the Republic, The Nation, 20 February 2016, P.07

Saad Rasool, Fearing accountability, The Nation, 21 February 2016, P.07

Dr Farid A Malik, Political cleansing through accountability, The Nation, 24 Feb-ruary 2016, P.06

Mohsin Raza Malik, The anti-NAB bandwagon, The Nation, 24 February

Religion

Javid Husain, The crisis of Islamic civilization, The Nation, 16 February 2016, P.07

Tabinda M Khan, The FSC in our hybrid society, The News, 10 February 2016, P.07

Science & Information Technology

Ahsan Kureshi, The global media monster, The Nation, 13 February 2016, P.06

Muhammad Umar , A Responsible Nuclear Pakistan, The Nation, 26 Feb-ruary 2016, P.06

Zamir Akram, Nuclear myths and realities, The News, 11 February 2016, P.00

Malik Muhammad Ashraf, India and the NSG waiver, The News, 16 Febru-ary 2016, P.06

War/Terrorism

Air Marshal (R) Khurshid Anwar Mirza, Restructuring the armed forces, The Nation, 03 February 2016, P.07

Iftikhar Ahmad, How to survive with dignity, The Nation, 05 February 2016, P.06

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Obituary: National Action Plan, The Nation, 11 February 2016, P.07

Sehar Kamran, Putin’s Parliamentary Diplomacy, The Nation, 13 February 2016, P.07

K. Iqbal, Countering terrorism: A multidimensional review, The Nation, 15 February 2016, P.07

Mohsin Raza Malik, On policing terrorism, The Nation, 17 February 2016, P.07

Saqlain A Shah, Fighting terrorism, The Nation, 22 February 2016, P.07

Iftikhar Ahmad , Understanding terrorism , The Nation, 26 February 2016, P.07

Afrasiab Khattak, The Forgotten Fata, The Nation, 27 February 2016, P.07

A . Rauf K . Khattak, What NAP missed, Dawn, 17 Feb. 2015, P.09

Faisal Ali Raja, Terror and the youth, The News, 09 February 2016, P.06