opinion
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Mainstreaming the Taliban?
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. On Wednesday Amjad Sabri was assassinated on the streets of Karachi in cold blood. The Hakeemullah Mehsud group of the TTP reportedly claimed...
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The new great game
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
The US is back in the Asia-Pacific and plans to remain engaged in the region on a permanent basis. Its rebalance strategy in the...
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Wisdom vs Trump
Ayushman Jamwal
Almost fifty civilians in a gay nightclub gunned down by a man of Afghan descent – this has become the easy recipe for Republican candidate Donald Trump to reboot his hate politics against the...
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Smokescreen in southern Punjab
Fahd Humayun
Back in May the Punjab Assembly unanimously carried a resolution hailing anti-terror operations in the province. On paper, the numbers look impressive: 10,000 intelligence-based operations have been...
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Afghan rulers in the dock
Asghar Khan Askari
Afghanistan has been a theatre of war for the last 35 years. In 1979, the then Soviet Union invaded the country. After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Afghanistan passed through a civil war until...
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Think of the children
Dr Frederica Perera
Children suffer the most from fossil fuel burning. Fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide is the root cause of much of children’s ill health children today as...