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Saad Rashid

This is Saad Rashid, Finance major, runner, swimmer, history nerd, and a fan of FC Barcelona. With interests ranging from Psychedelics in History to sports science, there is nothing that he will not get stuck into.

57 articles published

The People’s Bus Service

Reading Time: 4 minutes The working man requires something that can ease his woes. Pakistan’s People’s Party, quite surprisingly, has come out as a very unlikely hero in this situation. Or have they? The recently started People’s Bus Service has caused a lot of debate in online circles, and within…

BySaad RashidJuly 21, 20220Comments

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The Arrest of Imran Khan Niazi: What Does It Mean for Journalistic Freedom in Pakistan?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Imran Riaz used his platforms to critique the regime change and was quite outspoken on the matter in the time following the unpopular change. He ended up pointing fingers and making remarks that were sensitive in nature. Mainly he openly classified the regime change as an…

BySaad RashidJuly 13, 20220Comments

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The Hajj “Lottery”: What does it mean?

Reading Time: 4 minutes How many quotas are allowed to each country is largely dependent on their Muslim population but the Saudi Government and the various countries allotted these quotas are constantly under a barrage of allegations of being corrupt or mismanaging these quotas.

BySaad RashidJuly 6, 20220Comments

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Tackling the Petro-Crisis

Reading Time: 5 minutes Despite efforts across the world for many years, and there being existing technology that is both cost-effective and good for the environment that can replace tech requiring fossil fuels, we are still very much dependent on the very thing that is killing our planet. Not only…

BySaad RashidJuly 3, 20220Comments

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The Why and How of Becoming a Sustainable Household

Sustainability is the word of the day. Well, more like the word of the century at this point. Short-term economic benefits have seduced most of humanity into shooting themselves in the foot-in the long-term. Cutting down trees, pumping fossil fuel exhaust into the air, burning plastics and petroleum products, dumping micro-plastics into the sea. So…

BySaad RashidJune 22, 20220Comments

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Why Tax dodgers hurt the poor: A look at the reality of Tax evasion

Reading Time: 4 minutes Rs 310 Billion worth of tax dodging occurs in Pakistan annually. And this too, from just five sectors. To put that into perspective, this is three times as much as the total budget allocation to the HEC, both developmental and non-developmental.

BySaad RashidMay 26, 20220Comments

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PIA-Rise and Fall of a Juggernaut

Reading Time: 4 minutes PIA would serve to be a source of pride for the nation, with technological and service developments that would rival those of other international juggernauts while retaining the national roots that gave PIA its flavor. The famous slogan “Great People to Fly With”, the slogan of…

BySaad RashidMay 19, 20220Comments

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How Colonial Era Famines still Effect us

Reading Time: 4 minutes The effects of colonialism on us South Asians has been catastrophic. This is a known fact, and the cultural, moral, material, and even spiritual impact of the white man on the subcontinent has been so detrimental that the effects are being felt to this day.

BySaad RashidMay 11, 20221Comment

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Zakat and Charity Management

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pakistan has a very complex relationship with charity. On one hand, a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. On the other hand, Pakistan is one of the most charitable countries in the world where close to one percent of its GDP is donated…

BySaad RashidApril 21, 20220Comments

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The History and Nature of Bureaucracy

Reading Time: 4 minutes According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Vincent de Gournay coined the term Bureaucracy in the 1700s. The word is derived from the French word for table. So now we know why a Bureau is a Bureau and there is, in fact, a connection between the two seemingly…

BySaad RashidApril 18, 20222Comments

Here’s to understanding the crux of things.

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