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Prepare to be criminalised
Yes, we need legislation aginst cybercrime but that does not mean we sign up to yet another layer of state censorship
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A Yemen explainer
Yemen has been in dire straits for a very long time, and its recent troubles are deeply rooted in a colonial past
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Not quite The Great Game
Whether Pakistan has the heft to pull off something as complex as that is the great unanswered question of the day
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Cutting the crap — again
NAP's 20 points are desirable, but beyond the competencies or will of those tasked with finding ways to make it work
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A shared anniversary
In Pakistan my advancing years work to my advantage rather than vice versa, as my knowledge and experience is valued
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The destructive urge
Both Christians, Muslims have capacity for extremes of cruelty and violence, with faith least of the determinants
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Sometimes it all clicks
This was the most concrete of realities, not aerie-faerie nonsense that disappears in a puff of smoke
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Bubbles, frocks, and real life
The bubble the fashionistas live in carries an illusion that it is expanding. Time for a reality check, methinks
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Politics and lying
Common between discussion in Islamabad, cruciation in Westminster was that in neither self-evident truths were owned
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How does it feel for you?
Anybody feel easier walking around? Less likely to get blown up? Nope… did not get an affirmative