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What profits a man?
What are the key strengths of the democratic order and why would a bureaucrat prefer it over a dictatorial one?
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Whodunnit
In the long tragic tableau of Pakistani politics, we have arrived at another heartbreaking moment
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Explaining gravity to a chicken
The country’s permanent institutions seriously need to revise their criteria meant to separate wheat from chaff
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Bipolar disorders
The country has developed a soft underbelly of toxic if populist religiosity
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The writing off the wall
Another government is about to fall under the weight of its contradictions and that of the system
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Pointless!
A journalist must avoid becoming a part of the story
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Whither proactive foreign policy
When your citizens instinctively know that the country is exceptional they expect exceptional results
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The Red Queen is laughing
Technology that makes these visual sensations possible seems to be failing to provide mankind with antidotes
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Pious greed
Where the rich get richer and the poor do not realise things are being taken from them, religious manipulation works
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Why we can’t have nice things
Those responsible for failures often usurp the talking points of their critics and weaponise against them