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A matter of interpretation
Qasmi traces how women of the Subcontinent were denigrated to pre-Islamic status, violating rights accorded by Islam
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Two opposites: hate and culture
Every time you hate someone who is culturally coextensive with you, you end up hating a part of yourself.
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Is there life after a US withdrawal?
Hegemons taken down by an inferior civilisation end up giving us a worse world to live in.
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Aminullah Chaudhry’s ‘unputdownable’ memoir
Reading Aminullah Chaudhry's memoir I can say he may have been harmlessly ‘uppity’ but did not deserve to be despised.
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A scary uniformity of mind
When state becomes shy about regimentation, it raises flag of ‘unity’, a coercive need of scared or aggressive state.
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Can Pakistan understand China?
A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution.
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Going ‘dutt’ against America
Musharraf had gone dutt in the beginning only to see the world willing to take out Pakistan, the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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Time to look beyond our crisis?
Pakistan’s problems are almost always blamed on invisible external hands, opposed to real internal decline and decay.
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People are always wrong!
In today’s democracy, people are dangerous elements, even their representatives have to be muffled.
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Who killed Saleem Shahzad?
Saleem Shehzad could have been killed by army and intelligence officials who have crossed over to the militants.