Stories from Amina Jilani
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Optimism versus reality
Mr Sharif has not only made the right noises but has done what democrats claim to be the right and proper things.
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Slowly, slowly …
Sharif is a known figure to the Indian elite and Delhi knows it can do business with him.
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Of particular concern
Pakistan was designated as a "country of particular concern" by a US report on International Religious Freedom.
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Home truths
We must hope that justice coupled with common sense will prevail and that an even keel will be found.
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The wages of democracy
The nonsensical bigoted kerfuffle raised by Articles 62, 63 of the multi-mess made of the Constitution has retreated.
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The too-large glass
The half-full or half-empty metaphor does not appropriately apply to Pakistan.
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Righteous indignation!
We hope that candidates can be honest and ameen, but to expect them to be righteous is akin to asking for the moon.
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At what cost?
Politics, the famous ‘system’, has been saved at the expense of the state.