opinion
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Blunders from across the Durand Line
Saleem Safi
The writer works for Geo TV. A rare opportunity for both Afghanistan and Pakistan to remove all hurdles in mutual relations is lost. The first year of the Ashraf Ghani government in Afghanistan, and...
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NPT rules
our correspondents
When all is said and done, what the recently-approved Iran nuclear agreement is all about is ensuring that Iran honours its commitment under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty not to develop...
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Not a coup but filling a governance vacuum
our correspondents
With an increasingly public persona of the COAS, many are referring to a ‘soft’ coup having taken place – some gleefully, others with a woeful shrug of inevitability. After all, there has been...
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Shahab Ahmed: a brilliant scholar
Beena Sarwar
Prominent Islamic scholar Shahab Ahmed, originally from Pakistan, was laid to rest last Saturday morning at the Mt Auburn cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his adopted home. Born in Singapore on...
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Politics of the disenchanted
our correspondents
The Guardian journalist Seamus Milne hailed it as ‘a political eruption of historic proportions’. Prime Minister David Cameron claimed it represented a threat to Britain’s national security....
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For a presidential democracy
Atta-ur-Rahman
In a handwritten note dated July 10, 1947 Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah wrote: “Dangers of Parliamentary Form of Government: 1) Parliamentary form of government – it has worked satisfactorily...