opinion
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Curse of non-state actors
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. No one said making peace between India and Pakistan would be easy. The two countries are sitting atop a reservoir of painful history, bitter...
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Another Kalabagh?
Sanaullah Baloch
Increasing concerns over the mysterious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor are making both the public and political parties nervous about the secretive nature of the $46 billion ‘deal’ that hands...
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CPEC: time to reflect
M Saeed Khalid
Rigging has come down several notches in the PTI’s list of charges against the PML-N. But there is never a dull moment in the country’s politics, and Imran Khan has just found something to hit...
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The Fata conundrum
Raashid Wali Janjua
Pakistan’s tribal areas have been crying out for attention since Independence. Sir Olaf Caroe’s limpid prose describes Fata as “a prickly and untrimmed hedge between Rawalpindi and Kabul”....
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Numbers matter
Rutaba Tanvir
We grow up being conditioned on the fact that numbers are important. We are trained to have a quantitative outlook. We breathe in measurements. We are told that being calculated helps in the real...
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DHS raids
Hassan Ahmad
The Department of Homeland Security has begun launching raids against undocumented immigrants with recent orders of deportation. This reversal of prioritisation shifts the DHS’s focus to those who...