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  • Change crops up again

    What chances do Khan and Qadri have — and more importantly, are they what Pakistan needs?

  • Sink or swim

    The top, all the way along, has been rotten to its core, rot has steadily permeated downwards as deep as it can get.

  • Of its own making

    As things stand, who or what is the alternative? Theories and suspicions are rife.

  • As it is

    Terrorist violence flourishes, as does sectarian violence both senseless and apparently, unstoppable, by ‘agencies’.

  • ‘Tis a pity…

    Imran Khan has blundered badly and the blunders are too well known to bear boring repetition.

  • Down to basics

    The General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani firecracker of Guy Fawkes Day and national reaction — still continuing — tells all.

  • The tussling trio

    Chief justice, president and army; All three lay claim to some sort of divine right.

  • ‘Los desaparecidos’

    The issue of the disappeared involves serious breaches of ‘hallowed’ Constitution of Pakistan, of international law.

  • Needed: a break in the cycle

    October 19 judgment cemented the fact that elections cannot be ‘free and fair’ as long as politicians can be bought.

  • Ignorant and misguided?

    How do Imran Khan’s plans to pacify, deal with Taliban fit in with his thinking on education, role for girls & women?