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The past, present and future of land reforms
Land reforms and bringing down feudalism are popular ideas, but very few understand the legal hurdles the state must overcome to implement change.
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Medal of Honor: Killing people is fun, mostly
I like my virtual gore as much as the next video game player but a commercial game that allows players to slaughter the Taliban is pushing it a bit.
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Nobel peace prize hijacked by the West
Nobody has heard of Liu Xiaobo, the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace. He never really mattered. The prize was all about what Europe was saying to the US.
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The Microsoft phone: Just not good enough?
Can the Windows Phone 7 help Microsoft rise to the top of the market once again? Considering, you can't even copy/paste - probably not.
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I’m from KGS and I can’t study next to… a big building?
The parents of Karachi Grammar School are protesting against a high rise being built near their children's school. The
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This is the place you die (and we are the ones to kill you)
Three prisoners were yanked from their cells stripped, beaten and subjected to horrifying torture in Toba Tek Singh. Are we a society that allows prisoners to be treated this way?
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Dr Aafia, Faisal Shahzad are not Pakistan's heroes
We have personified mortals like Aafia Siddiqi and Faisal Shahzad into mythological figures simply because they were confronted by external forces - this is pseudo-patriotism.
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Didn’t you know everyone hated you?
An Indian school suspends 16 students for starting a Facebook thread containing vile remarks against a teacher. Are social networking sites becoming battlefields with no rules?
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The lonely death of the protest song
For a country plagued with war, terrorism, social uprisings and natural disasters, our music industry remains oblivious to the genre of topical songs.
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The ghairat brigade
They harass women, but when their victims speak out against them, they will be the first to say "What has this nation come to?" Welcome to the Ghairat Brigade.