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The mystery of change in Pakistan
What Qadri spoke about on December 23 is not about change but metamorphosis in which most people will be blindfolded.
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Catching the fish — small and big — in Pakistan
How do we tell apart the fish when all accountability body has done is to sit by riverbank without catching anything?
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Should Malala get a Nobel Prize?
There is a high probability that once we bag Nobel, our entire focus will shift on the prize rather than the problem.
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Poverty, ideology and resistance — in Balochistan
Poverty-violence linkage ignores the fact insurgents are brutalised middle class forced to take arms against state.
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Pakistan’s unregulated urban expansion
We should seriously look at how land is being used and that it doesn’t get exploited for the interest of a select few.
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Urbanisation in Pakistan and its consequences
Most of the cities developed randomly with no proper planning of infrastructure growth to make it an urban centre.
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The rebranding of Hafiz Saeed
JuD head may not be electable but he could still help in steering public opinion, especially amongst radical element.
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Belling the (Taliban) cat
Pakistani notion of justice, what is right and wrong is so problematic that a battle against terrorism can’t be...
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Analysis: Army chief versus the judge?
There is no doubt that no one would dare to grill the former army chief or DG ISI like common criminals.
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Reading and explaining history
Lums probably didn't think Hoodbhoy would make students think about issues differently than prevalent thinking.