opinion
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Mossack Fonseca and Pakistani democracy
Mosharraf Zaidi
The writer is an analyst and commentator. Prime ministers of countries of two hundred million people should never put themselves in a position to have to field questions about why their wealth, or...
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Legends of the mandate
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary So someone has blown the whistle on high-flying beneficiaries of offshore companies/holdings. And among the lucky souls are our very own scions of the Mandate: the two sons,...
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Progressive Pakistan
Adnan Randhawa
Has Pakistan finally set sail towards a bright future? Some recent trends have shown more acceptance for liberal policies and leftist politics, coupled with an increasing pressure on the extremist...
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Pak-Iran relations
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
The two-day visit to Pakistan by Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani was very significant because of the emerging geopolitical situation in the region. Opportunities have opened up because of the...
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Our travel footprint
Naeem Sadiq
Pakistan may be a minor defaulter in creating the crisis of climate change. Of the 32,100 million tonnes of deadly Carbon Dioxide emitted globally every year, we can only be blamed for some 200...
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Arming the rebels
Kevin Schwartz
Reliance on proxies in the pursuit of policy goals is nothing new for the US, recurring as an element of policy through successive Cold War and post-Cold War administrations – from South...