Abid Aman Burki
The writer is an adjunct Professor of Economics at LUMS CNM Department of Economics, where he was a regular faculty member from 2002 to 2021, most recently as a Professor of Economics.
Opinion
How To Improve Pakistan’s Crop Agriculture?
In the late 1960s and the 1970s, the Green Revolution in Pakistan increased agricultural production by introducing hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides. In the 1980s and the 1990s, further gains were made through the extension of the cultivable land area, mainly due...
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Features
In Karachi, Deadly Manholes...
For children, 14 August is all about flags on the rooftops, shops adorned with fairy lights, and waving the...
News
Pakistan Decides To Launch...
Nine years after Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that displaced millions of people and claimed...
Election series
Explainer: Why Is Every...
This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here. With Pakistan’s general elections...
Features
Over 2 Years In...
It has been five years since Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shehzadi was released after more than two years of enforced...
Features
Growing Up Hindu In...
The negation of Hindu identity by using the prefix “non” is so normalised and internalised by the State...
News
Govt To Get Content...
The federal government has said that it will get content on "same-sex family" removed from the O Level syllabus...
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Death Toll From Kurram Sectarian Violence Rises To 124
Pakistan - The number of deaths from the sectarian conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram district...
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Journalist Matiullah Jan Abducted By Unknown Men In Islamabad
Pakistani journalist Matiullah Jan was abducted by unidentified individuals outside Pakistan Institute of Medical...
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Police Demolish Minaret of 70-Year-Old Ahmadi Worship Place in Sialkot
The Punjab police demolished the minaret of a 70-year-old Ahmadi worship place in Kot...
Features
A Baloch Mother’s Agonizing Quest To Reunite With Her Missing Son
A four-hour journey from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, to the...