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Nato routes and our national pride
Is there a lesson in all this for Pakistan? Yes, three lessons.
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Non-Muslims and our textbooks
Non-Muslim Pakistanis contributing to the society have been pushed aside completely — out of thought and out of...
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Well done, CCP!
The CCP must be more proactive rather than acting against cartels long after.
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Make the May 2 report public
Point of setting up commission was to make public security, intelligence lapses leading to the raid, not to cover up.
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Extremism grips the Muslim mind
Al Qaeda is looking for a state that it could run with enough internal revenue to launch its global jihad.
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Pakistanis in Uganda
Five Pakistanis were arrested in Uganda for being members of the al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shaabab rebel group.
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Agreeable times
It is crucial that the person who presides over the general election, due by early 2013, is an unbiased one.
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Adverts on billboards
Educate masses about gender sensitivity, not through billboards that hint towards operating within strictures of Islam
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Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani state
With the failure of the negotiations in Qatar, now might be a good time to rethink our policy towards Afghanistan.
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A landmark US ruling
Judges will do well to study majority opinion in Affordable Care Act, see what role of judiciary is meant to be.
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Another sectarian massacre
The war to fight is the war inside Pakistan — with the help of the outside world we are being taught to hate.
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Dreaming of gold
The Greenshirts have not brought home a gold medal since Los Angeles, in 1984.
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Election rules
An ECP that is not scrupulously fair will ensure that the reforms are not worth the paper they are written on.
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Yet another wait
If Ashraf follows Gilani’s lead and refuses to write letter, he too could be rendered ineligible from office.
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Should we release an Indian agent?
Killing Sarabjeet Singh or letting him rot in jail till he dies will not serve the interest of the state.
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Ominous threat to media
The role of journalists in reporting critically on the Taliban is too important for them to be left exposed.
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A crushing loss
Pakistan continued their less-than-satisfactory sojourn to Sri Lanka, falling to a 209-run defeat in the first Test.
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Attack on Dir checkpost
The govt, military should realise that they need to continue to pressurise the Taliban and launch an operation in Dir.
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Rescuing the Ravi
At present, a shocking 48 per cent of the pollution in the Indus comes from the Ravi, despite its small size.
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Morsi’s win
The biggest challenge he faces is that of uniting the disparate political forces in Egypt to keep the military at bay.
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Eco-friendly toilets
India's green toilet initiative needs to be replicated, expanded even if that means giving up a missile or two.
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Attack outside Kabul
US blamed the Haqqani Network for the attack. The Pakistan military has repeatedly refused to take action against it.
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Not so sorry
Pakistan has no shortage of people for whom ‘sorry’ is a dirty word. Salman Butt is only latest addition to the list.
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After the Egyptian revolution
The omens are not good for Egypt and it risks falling under authoritarian rule again.
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The real enemy
We have to realise that the real enemy is in our guts. It is the Taliban and its master, al Qaeda.
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Choosing the new PM
Ashraf did try to sound all the right notes in his inaugural PM speech despite not being the ideal candidate.
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Googling for good
Even today, language deeply divides Pakistani where many barely-known dialects are spoken, some with no script.
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Change in prime minister
Gilani may claim that he almost completed his tenure, but he left behind the same uncertainty that was there in 1990s.
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Entertaining electricity
It would be tragic if we lose what limited means of entertainment we have left in Pakistan due to power crisis
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Some tolerance, please
The legal fraternity, it seems, would prefer not to extend constitutional rights to those it disagrees with.
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Militancy and polio
Ever since Shakil Afridi episode, Western aid workers have found it even more difficult to gain the trust of locals
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What next?
The new state of instability that has been created, post removal of Yousaf Raza Gilani, will not help us at all.
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A below-par performance
The ODI series loss against an opponent that Pakistan had dominated in the recent past is a worrying sign.
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Solving Balochistan
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry is taking on what may be his greatest challenge yet: the might of the military.
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An ill-considered move
Taking guns out of hands of extortionists would be a more viable policy than putting them into the hands of traders.
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A judicial coup?
Of course, all of this is not to say that Yousaf Raza Gilani or the PPP is without blame.
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RIP Fauzia Wahab
Here was a middle class woman, defiantly and proudly taking centre stage in an arena that was dominated by rich men.
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A community no one cares about
Ahmadis are lambs silently going to their slaughter, its ethnic cleansing that recalls the pogroms of Hitler’s...
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Arab Spring undone?
Shifting to democracy was never going to be easy but the people of Egypt are now finding out it may well be impossible
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Some introspection, please
The reliability of the news we hear and the integrity of those who present it is coming under serious scrutiny.
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An outdated jingoism
Despite possessing the nuclear bomb, we are hardly better off than the non-nuclear neighbours of India.
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Monsoon menace
It is quite obvious that emergency measures need to be put in place immediately.
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Some unanswered questions
Can attorney general, in his investigation of the matter, be expected to re-visit alleged link between Riaz and CJP?
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Revelling in revelations
Hopefully, this will lead to measures by media itself to subject journalist activities to rules, regulations.
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Friendlier words
Simple apology, few words either written or spoken, over what happened at Salala should not be so difficult after all
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Kohistan complexities
It is imperative that we get to the bottom of the matter and discover the whole truth.
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The SC’s short order
Order advises media to ensure that it is not used by elements acting against the state or the Constitution.
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Wasting resources on Siachen
A withdrawal from Siachen would free some of that money to be spent on more worthwhile endeavours.
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Memogate report
Some would also say that the commission’s commentary on Haqqani’s loyalties was unnecessary.
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Mehdi Hassan (1927-2012)
Today, we must ask ourselves if we will ever be able to produce new singers of the same calibre.