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It’s all in the mind
The gentleman who occupies the presidential mansion in Islamabad has so far played his cards admirably.
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Zia’s pernicious legacy
Jinnah’s Pakistan has virtually ceased to exist, but a few still hope it has not yet been interred forever.
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The inglorious Eighth
The greatest polluter of the constitution (Ziaul Haq’s 8th amendment) remains very much a part of this nation’s...
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Allah ki marzi
The nervousness exhibited by the establishment towards the mullah fraternity is not understandable.
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Skewed priorities
Priorities in this Islamic Republic tend to be wonky. There is little concept of what should be first and last.
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Exposed — to the elements
Ramazan was not observed - the usual greed and selfishness that afflicts the nation from top to bottom prevails.
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A perfect recipe for brutality
Floods, shoe pelting, Sialkot, cricket criminality, bomb blasts – Pakistan’s crises are legion, but hardly legendary.
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Hardly surprising
The media-venting of ire against the head of state of this Islamic Republic continues, like the floods, unabated.
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Independence Day blues
Independence Day 1947, 63 years ago, was fraught with violent birth-pangs, death and destruction.