Friday, April 19, 2013
Talat Farooq
There is renewed interest in questions of Islamic ideology and the ideology of Pakistan following the implementation of the concepts of ‘sadiq’ and ‘ameen’ as per ROW (returning officers’ wisdom). In this regard one would like to ask ...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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Days before it completed its five-year term the PPP coalition government authored a series of anti-terror laws subsequently passed by parliament. The Anti-Terrorism (Second Amendment) Bill, 2013 remained pending with the Senate for ...

Saturday, March 09, 2013
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Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s sudden gush of ‘peace-mongering’ and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and the PML-N’s support for the same is one of those absurdities of life that are too deep for tears and too shallow for laughter. Politicians ...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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Gen (r) Shahid Aziz’s effort to ‘disclose’ an open secret has brought the Kargil conflict back into focus. Finding out who knew what and to what extent is certainly important. However, it is equally important to ask whether the ...

Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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A series of crises in 2011 set the tone for US-Pakistan interaction in 2012; these included Raymond Davis’ shooting of two Pakistanis and Bin Laden’s killing. However, it was the Salala tragedy that proved to be the final straw with ...

Friday, December 14, 2012
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There were significant moments in the 20th century when heightened awareness of major human values – freedom, justice, order, security etc – forced American, and other western thinkers and academics to review the human condition and ...

Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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And just when one’s defence mechanism had kicked in and one could hear about (other) people dying in terror attacks without losing one’s sleep, Malala decided to shake us to the core of our beings. Malala is the mirror in which we ...

Friday, September 28, 2012
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International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic) have conducted research into the trauma suffered by ...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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Today is the 14 of August and just for today I want to indulge in the willing suspension of cynicism. I can perhaps return to it tomorrow and continue to resort to it throughout the year, for anger and a deep sense of injustice finds ...

Thursday, August 09, 2012
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Over the last few weeks one of the main news items in the UK pertained to the trial of the Pakistani born Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and his wife Farzana, 49. On Friday, August 3, Chester Crown Court in Cheshire found them guilty of ...