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A decisive moment |
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Arif Nizami
As the Obama administration has reached the final decisive moment about sending more troops to Afghanistan as a result of a much-debated new US strategy, pressure on Pakistan to do more has also increased incrementally. In the aftermath of the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's high-profile visit
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O Peshawar! |
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Basil Nabi Malik
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live. – Thomas Brown, Sr.
Without a shadow of a doubt, Peshawar is facing an unprecedented wave of terror. It has been reported that Peshawar has encountered six terrorist attacks in the last 11 days, and this at
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America's Afghan strategy |
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Bassam Javed
The air over Afghanistan's elections is finally cleared. Consequent to the withdrawal of Dr Abdullah from the runoff elections, for which he had worked so hard, the Independent Afghan Election Commission declared the incumbent president as having been re-elected on the basis of the Aug 20 elections
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A dictator's 'akhri mukka' |
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Shamshad Ahmad
In our country, the combative politics is no less than a boxing bout with winners and losers both playing the game of power and intrigue and sharing the bounty together through wheeling and dealing with the collusion of match fixers. In an apocalyptic war of one against all since March 2007, surely
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An inept response |
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Babar Sattar
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.
The Pakistan-based Taliban's indiscriminate religion-inspired war against the state in concert with other terror groups poses a threat that no one really knows how to deal with. The war raging in our tribal areas as well as our cities is multi-pronge
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End in 2012? |
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Anjum Niaz
Yellers like the 'sky is falling' or words like apocalypse or Armageddon are metaphors, worn-out and so very boring. Whenever something terrible, in our eyes, is about to happen, we toss in these tropes. Indeed, the hacks keep handy such infuriating ruffle to use repeatedly, often mindlessly. Do par
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