Stories from Yaqoob Khan Bangash
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Parliament on snooze
Everyone knows it is important, every one gives it lip service, but it comes alive only occasionally
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Imagined history
The fabrication of history is not new and is not limited to any one country — it is omnipresent
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The past as present
The paucity of good History scholars and scholarship in Pakistan are evidence of a lack of interest and engagement
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The first wife syndrome
Pakistan won't develop as a country, become a stable member of world comity unless it sheds its India-centric policy
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Eating grass
40 years after that, we have the bomb — with power, gas, petrol, other shortages — are on the verge of eating grass
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‘What is it to you?’
We are now clearly in a battle for our survival and there are simply no two ways about it
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Our ideological education
Truth is that ‘ideology’ of Pakistan being stringently preserved in universities, clearly etched in students' minds
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Remembrance
While there is no harm in commemorating the 1965 war, the discontinuation of Remembrance Day observation is a loss
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