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When rickshaws turn jihadi
Lahore’s rickshaws have gone from displaying poetry to advertising burnt bodies of Gujarat, Samjhauta express...
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Myths about the Urdu language
64 years after creation of Pakistan, we have not arrived at any conclusion about our ‘national’ or cultural identity.
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Situationer: Coups are not easy anymore
The civil-military faultline has been compounded by the addition of two new power-brokers – the courts and the media.
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Has anything changed since Taseer’s murder?
One year on, the judge who sentenced Qadri, the cleric who led Taseer's funeral prayers have fled the country.
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When are we going to open our eyes?
Believing conspiracy theories is a serious state of collective denial, needs rectification for stability, survival.
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Disasters, dengue and local government
The net effect of collapsed local administration is that we can neither manage disasters nor fight epidemics.
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Some sobering lessons
If Islamism was meant to suffer a defeat in the quasi-ideological battle, then the West should be worried.
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Hoping for Shahbaz Taseer’s early recovery
Taseer's abductors have sent a powerful message that they are stronger than the state, can pick up targets at will.
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Sixty-four years of failure?
Each year August 14 generates empty rhetoric by ruling classes and corresponding cynicism by shrinking intelligentsia.
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Lahore’s growing Talibanisation
Police behaviour is reflective of how state functionaries are radicalised or helpless before rising tide of Islamism.