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Education Inequality: Why Those Who Are Born Poor Die Poor
Written by Shahzeb Younis
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Trade, Poverty, and Inequality.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. In my dictionary, poverty and inequality go side by side. Poverty is defined as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support. Educational inequality […]
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Shahzeb Younis
A business student, an amateur photographer & videomaker, and a Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program Alumnus. I love to show my opinions through pictures rather than writing them in blogs. Travelling and getting to know new people is the latest thing in my bucket list. Vintage stuff is the new awesome.
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The 2013 Pakistan General Elections: Democracy wins the day
Written by Shahzeb Younis
Right after the 2013 general elections ended in Pakistan, people took to the streets and social media with slogans like: “Where are our free and fair elections?”, “We want new elections in Karachi”, and the most popular one, “They told me to go home because my vote was cast already!”. […]
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Job vs. Business – Where does your future lie?
Written by Shahzeb Younis
In one of my previous articles, I presented the lives of street vendors in the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. The pictures gave a graphic description of the conditions in which lower class uneducated Pakistanis work, and what they think about unemployment and job conditions can easily be imagined. […]
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The Monsoon in Karachi: Natural Beauty and Man-Made Chaos
Written by Shahzeb Younis
While we talk about the “new” challenges that the megacities of the world are now facing, the ultra-megacity of Karachi in Pakistan stands helpless in front of problems other of the world’s megacities have learnt to cope with. Karachi – the largest city in Pakistan and the industrial hub of […]
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Death Threat on the Roll – Shisha Culture in Pakistan.
Written by Shahzeb Younis
There has been a sudden rise in the number of patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Pakistan and other Middle East countries in the last few years. The reason behind the sharp increase of such diseases is mostly related to tobacco smoking – usually through Shisha, which, according to the teenagers, […]
