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The imagery of war
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - a place where when lives are lost one can just play again.
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How to improve Pakistani universities
The term university should be reserved for an institution teaching all possible subjects.
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Go get the terrorists
OODA stands for, observe, orient, decide, act.
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A dose of humility
It is time for the US to publicly apologise to Pakistan for greatly aggravating an already dysfunctional situation.
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Pakistan’s tragic flaw
The Pakistani military is in some ways an admirable institution, but it is obsessed with India and Kashmir.
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Security lapses
It is important to note that now is the time to think of greater accountability of the defence sector.
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Budgeting without reform
The political class is supposed to tax those who spend on infrastructure, but it has not understand how to do it.
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All of the same stock
The people have no doubts that it is the military that controls the miserable happenings in the country.
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Time to come down to earth
Information given to us was lacked truth, government and ISPR need to take the nation into confidence on both events.
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Demon-eating saint
Newcomers told of communists’ propensity for virgins coupled with ‘Islam against the rest of the world’ mentality.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Bloody civilians can perhaps bring us out of the morass in which we find ourselves.
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Pakistan’s day of infamy
"Afghanistan is a means to accomplish our top mission, which is to kill al Qaeda and secure Pakistan’s nukes."
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A world lit by lies
This deliberate policy of lying means that we are stuck in war with no clear idea as to who we are fighting or why.
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Please, lie to us
Days of insidious brainwashing by dangerous ideologues now replaced by mediocre polemicists, as subtle as a blowtorch.
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Hope for our survival
I suggest an alternative vision where one is not forced to accept the current situation as an only option.
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Economics: The ‘vacuum cleaner’ effect
Who benefits from the misery and death of millions? The direct beneficiaries are very few who become wealthy.
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Our collective psychosis
Our collective habit of finding bogeys and imagining enemies has turned into a deep psychosis.
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Sing the pain away
Suffering from unique forms of humiliation, Coke Studio has become our only source of pride healing, and punching bag.
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Diplomacy reinvigorated
Pakistan may not be able to react with the required skill and imagination to the emerging challenges.
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Naval base attack — shattering some myths
Rather than blaming others for its own failures, the military should start doing its actual job for once.
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Pakistan’s surreal Urdu media — I
Pakistan has more doctors writing columns than any nation on earth.
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The force is not with us
Spending a few million rupees on security would not be remiss to protect equipment in the billions of rupees.
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Hopes dancing on bald men’s hair
Aunts Agatha and Dahlia are commanding the PN and PNS Mehran respectively.
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Our ties with Russia
It would take time to overcome memories of the past, when Pakistan was a staging area for mujahideen fighting Soviets.
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Thank god for Nawaz Sharif
Nawaz realises that common Pakistanis want peace with India and take advantage of its economic development via trade.
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PNS Mehran attack and after
I don’t think anybody has any doubt that these attacks are a direct consequence of Osama's (supposed) execution.
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The terribly sad state of Balochistan
Worryingly it seems that extremist Islamic forces are being mobilised to quell the secular Baloch struggle.
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A relationship too vital to break
In my view, interests of Pakistan and the United State have great convergence.
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Twentieth-century economics — III
From 1980 to 2006, the richest one per cent of America tripled their after-tax percentage of the nation’s total income
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Reviving the economy
New institutional economics suggests that economic performance is fundamentally determined in the realm of the polity.
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A critical time in US-Pakistan relations
Pakistan has suffered tremendously for 9/11; 30,000 Pakistanis have been injured or killed since 9/11.
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Holier than thou
US intelligence had earlier discovered that watching hard-core pornography is widespread among extremist groups.
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What confuses Pakistanis?
The narrative that television disseminates is based on a travesty of nationalism which blinds the public to facts.
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Pakistan and China — what about India?
India is closely watching but there is a subtle change in Delhi’s reaction to the Pakistani-Chini bhai-bhai bonhomie.
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A conspiracy of silence
Are civilian deaths by GHQ-sanctioned CIA drones worse than those by military’s aerial and artillery fire in Fata?
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Bahawalpur blues
The Nawab of Bahawalpur is more interested in protocol and motorcade than real issue of education, health and economy.
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Permanence in a world of flux
The Chinese promise of eternal friendship is predicated on Pakistan putting its own house in order.
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Making nonsense of Fata
Fata is in need of radical governance, political reforms and economic development to dent the appeal of extremism.
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Primary education in rural areas
The Sindh government has taken bold and innovative steps to improve the state of education in Sindh.
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Let’s dispense with our doublespeak on drones
The military cannot make the kind of requests revealed by the cables and then embark on unsustainable policies.
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Was it really an intelligence failure?
It stretches belief when we are told that the ISI, such is its reputation, was ignorant as to the May Day op.
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A distressing disconnect
What makes the situation more explosive is the ‘disconnect’ is not only between Pakistan-US, but among Pakistanis too.
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Punjab’s ‘no’ to foreign aid
As a government -in-waiting, the PML-N must have alternative economic models ready, of which it has demonstrated none.
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From Kabul to Kolkata, new beginnings
India knows what it wants in Afghanistan, and before anything else, it wants back in.
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US assistance: Differing perceptions
It may sound ironical to suggest that it would be better for both the US and Pakistan if US assistance is terminated.
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The joint resolution and after
Parliament must be careful in treading a course, and may take preliminary measures to shore up civil authority.
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Paying heed to the LHC verdict
Despite the transfer of authority to the prime minister, real power continues to reside in President Zardari’s...
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Might is right
Pakistan should use this opportunity to learn lessons and take action that will put us on a better path.
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A politicised presidency
Our Constitution envisions a president who remains above partisan politics.
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Advances in engineering education in Pakistan — II
Pakistani parents would have been able to save money with the foreign-collaborated university program.










































