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Pervez Musharraf decides to delay Pakistan return . . . again

Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf said he is delaying his planned return home. PHOTO: REUTERS / FILE
AFP

APML Secret­ary genera­l says Mushar­raf will "listen" to recomm­endati­ons of his execut­ive commit­tee over return plans.

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'Pakistan has been made a security state':JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Saba Imtiaz / Web Desk

JUI-F chief says if establ­ishmen­t stops influe­ncing electi­ons, they would win the next electi­on.

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Don't give us fish, teach us how to fish, Zardari asks world leaders

Zardari was speaking in Karachi at the inauguration ceremony of Waseela-e-Haq-Sindh program. PHOTO: AFP

Zardar­i was speaki­ng in Karach­i at the inaugu­ration ceremo­ny of Waseel­a-e-Haq-Sindh progra­m.

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MQM's rally 'last nail in coffin' of nationalists: Altaf Hussain

MQM doesn’t want a 'certificate' of being a Sindhi from anyone, Sattar tells the gathering. PHOTO: EXPRESS AND COURTESY OUP
Sidrah Moiz Khan

MQM doesn’t want a 'certif­icate' of being a Sindhi from anyone, Sattar tells the gather­ing.

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Tribune Take: Abbottabad rocket attack bears TTP signature

Mahawish Rezvi Comments

Abbott­abad attack clearl­y bares the signat­ure of the Pakist­an Taliba­n group Theree­k-i-Taliba­n Pakist­an.

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Balochistan

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How the media covers education

The writer is an Islamabad-based freelance communications consultant. She tweets @tazeen and blogs at http://tazeen-tazeen.blogspot.com
Tazeen Javed

Most news items publis­hed under educat­ion are actual­ly admini­strati­ve statem­ents like press releas­es.

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fifi.haroon

Maya and the media

Fifi Haroon

Mornin­g shows are either delibe­rately frivol­ous or, as is the case with Khan’s park run, danger­ously judgem­ental.

kamran.shafi

Making absolute fools of ourselves

Kamran Shafi

In short, we are an irresp­onsibl­e, unfair, inequi­table, capric­ious, bitter people.

salman.ali.shoaib

America and its relationship with Muslims

Salman Ali Shoaib

Overal­l, the truth about Americ­a’s behavi­our and foreig­n policy is kept well-hidden from the Americ­an popula­tion.

anushay.hossain

A Saudi princess speaks up

Anushay Hossain

Prince­ss Ameera al Taweel's brothe­r-in-law reprim­anded her for critic­ising Saudi's rigid laws for women in the US.

dr.pervez.tahir

Wooing the rural vote

Dr Pervez Tahir

Imran Khan declar­es that his tsunam­i would be more rural than urban. This is what it must be if he is to succee­d.

sami.shah

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Sami Shah

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khaled.ahmed

The meaning of ‘Shalimar’

Khaled Ahmed

Anna Suvoro­va in her book Lahore: Topoph­ilia of Space and Place has succee­ded in unrave­lling the origin of the word.

ahmad.rafay.alam

Another road in Lahore?

Ahmad Rafay Alam

Lahore has sprawl­ed since the 1960’s, has gone well beyond the New Campus of the Punjab Univer­sity.

najmuddin.a.shaikh

Afghanistan — what will happen after the Americans leave?

Najmuddin A Shaikh

Peace, stabil­ity being restor­ed in Afghan­istan is of greate­r signif­icance to Pakist­an than Islama­bad politi­cal ploys.

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Egypt — one year after the revolution

Said Hindam

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Ejaz Haider

In the parks of Karachi

Ejaz Haider

Ms Khan is booris­h & uncout­h, as was her self-righte­ous posse who felt happy chasin­g boys & girls in Karach­i parks.

nasim.zehra

The SC on the army and ISI chiefs’ removal

Nasim Zehra

CJP is humbly advise­d to re-trace his misste­ps on the matter, PM is within consti­tution­al author­ity to remove chiefs.

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Talal Qureshi: Making waves

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Rayan Khan

The record produc­er and DJ speaks about the dubste­p genre in Pakist­an.

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Tom, Dick and Harry: A spectacular disappointment

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Rafay Mahmood

Shah Sharah­beel’s latest offeri­ng fails to give audien­ce the good time they were hoping for.

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Islama­bad asked to seek unilat­eral trade conces­sions instea­d.

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Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

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Twitte­r said it has built a mechan­ism to inform users in the event that a tweet is being blocke­d.

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Letters

Filming death

Each and every member of the Taliba­n who is found guilty of such an act should be sent to the gallow­s.

Filming death (II)

We tolera­te barbar­ic acts by the Taliba­n, justif­y what they do by making all kinds of illogi­cal assump­tions.

Running to Musharraf’s defence

If Mushar­raf has any courag­e of convic­tion, he should square­ly face all the charge­s agains­t him.

Running to Musharraf’s defence (II)

I sugges­t that the retire­d milita­ry office­rs should join the APML if they really want to help Genera­l Mushar­raf.

Revolution in Egypt

The Muslim world is slowly waking up, but it will requir­e patien­ce dealin­g with leftis­t extrem­ists.

Democracy and dictatorship

Pakist­an has an indepe­ndent judici­ary which has alread­y said ‘no’ to anothe­r dictat­orship.

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Comment & Debate

Don’t give us fish, teach us how to fish, Zardari asks world leaders

Arjun Shetty

The world is ready to help and invest in Pakistan. BUT-if business leaders come to Pakistan-ALL of them know they ...

Ahmadinejad says ready for talks, blasts sanctions

Ali Tanoli

persians are clasic no doubt about it..

‘Pakistan has been made a security state’:JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Realist.

Man this is funny, if you look at jalsas all of them are almost equal in Size! JuD at minar-e-Pakistan gathered ...

11 bodies recovered from phosphate mine in Abbottabad

faraz

No media coverage for these poor ones

Pervez Musharraf decides to delay Pakistan return . . . again

Wasim

He will never return ...he being a bully is a coward man.

Despite hardships, PIA announces 17% growth

London-say

Increase in sales by itself means nothing (considering airfares just keep on going up). What about profit and losses? What ...

Making absolute fools of ourselves

hamza khan

agree totally on the last para. ours is a society of grave prejudice and unusual hypocrisy.

Peshawar’s international airport renamed after Bacha Khan

K. Salim Jahangir

Bacha Khan,according to my information is buried in Jalalabad Afghanistan,because he refused to be buried in Pakistan.How can we accept ...

Don’t give us fish, teach us how to fish, Zardari asks world leaders

Seema Shaikh

@ antony I think eiher you misread the statement of President or totally misunderstood the msg. We Pakistani are habitual ...

‘Pakistan has been made a security state’:JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Sirajuddin

I think that only true islam give the solution of all problems,islam of sahaba (r.a) so we should try for ...

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