opinion
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Ali – a life less ordinary
Aijaz Zaka Syed
Dubai eye The writer is a Middle East based columnist. Ali’s boxing career had been over by the time I grew up. We did not even have a television then; so there was no question of watching...
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Pakistan…confused and rudderless
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary The contrast could not be more glaring. Since we must compare ourselves with India, that being our eternal yardstick, we must take this in: the Indian prime minister addresses the...
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South Asian dynamics
Shahzad Chaudhry
Narendra Modi addressed the US Congress this Wednesday. He is not the first Indian prime minister to do so but at a moment when India’s own profile is rising for the better in South Asia, it...
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Ironic India
Muhammad Umer
Prime Minister Modi arrived in the US earlier this week for his seventh meeting with President Obama in the last two years. There are a lot of routine things in his schedule. But in the midst of all...
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The peace gambit
Ramzy Baroud
If you have been following the Middle East ‘peace process’ business in the last quarter of a century, you are certainly aware that the ‘negotiations table’ is nothing but a...
