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Who was Jinnah?
Our habit of mythologising Jinnah may be forgivable but it hides important facts.
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Scientists, our kind
Making Dr AQ Khan our president will be like India making Dr Kalam its president; only our Dr Khan will have ghairat.
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Ideology as ‘false consciousness’
Pakistan is an ‘incomplete’ ideological state, a hybrid distasteful to the Islamists.
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Kayani’s doctrine of escalation
It is time we changed the paradigm of defence in Pakistan and returned to the normalcy of trade and trade routes.
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Nawaz Sharif’s new charter
There are two kinds of consensus that Nawaz Sharif can lean on: national economy and civil-military relations.
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Have Greeks become like us?
In Greece, protesting crowds pack steel clubs they can hurt the police with and they set buildings on fire.
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Can we be like the Chinese?
Pakistan is doing very well with its strategy of being friends with both America and China.
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How reliable is ‘voice of the people’?
Powerful states can survive after following popular trends, but others can only get into trouble.
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Musharraf’s confession of Kashmir terror
Terrorists are killing innocent Pakistanis. And they can kill army chiefs too, as Jaish nearly did Musharraf.
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Allama Iqbal and Abdolkarim Soroush
The clergy and the state in Pakistan have had problems with Allama Iqbal’s view of the state in his Sixth Lecture.