opinion
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The corruption card
Kamila Hyat
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor. Corruption has played a significant role in our history. It has come up again and again at critical times, at moments which mark...
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When will we say no to the arms race?
Imtiaz Alam
India has further escalated the arms race in the Subcontinent – first, by testing the nuclear capable K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile last month and now with the successful launch of...
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Legitimacy undermined
Dr Akmal Hussain
Once again, Pakistan is at a turning point in its political history. Yet again the institutional structure of politics is threatened by the pursuit of power by individuals unconstrained by...
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For a tax-clean Imran
Salman K Chima
Part - II It was January 4, 2012 when Part I of this article was published. I did not anticipate then that Part II would also be written but, thanks to Imran, here it is. What inspired Part I...
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Whither National Action Plan?
Raashid Wali Janjua
The National Action Plan was a hasty reaction to a national emergency that forced a sleeping state to finally shake off its ambivalence to talk or fight. There was a compulsion to craft an action...
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Obama and war
Trevor Timm
Barack Obama has now been at war longer than any president in United States history, as the New York Times pointed out recently. Barring some sort of peace miracle in the next six months, he will be...