opinion
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An anti-Chaudhry court?
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. After the expansion and contraction of the Supreme Court’s moral authority under Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s watch, there...
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Sahabzada Yaqub Khan of Pakistan
S Iftikhar Murshed
In the passing of Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, the country has lost a statesman of towering international stature. The New York Times described him in 1999 as “the most skilful diplomat of the world...
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NAP in southern Punjab
Fahd Humayun
Two developments in early 2016 – the Punjab government’s move to detain Jaish operatives, and a high-profile Taliban attack on the Bacha Khan University – have worked to refocus...
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Symbolism of the CPI score
Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
Berlin-based Transparency International launched its annual Corruption Perception Index 2015 on January 27. The index ranks countries on the basis of perceptions regarding incidence of corruption...
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The blasphemy laws
Peter Jacob
Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, the chairperson of the Council of Islamic Ideology, has offered to look into the possible doctrinal inconsistencies in the blasphemy laws, “should the government...
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The invisible epidemic
Janette D Sherman
Is it possible for an epidemic to be invisible? Since 1991 the annual number of newly documented cases of thyroid cancer in the United States has skyrocketed from 12,400 to 62,450. It’s now...