opinion
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Turkey and Pakistan
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. Since last weekend there has been much excitement in Pakistan over the botched coup attempt in Turkey. This wasn’t because the Turks...
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Celebrating failure
M Zeb Khan
The cheers of jubilant crowds across Turkey have reverberated here in Pakistan. The Turkish republic was saved from falling apart by not falling once again into the hands of military dictators. The...
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Clinton and Trump: a media critique
Andrew Stewart
Media studies can sometimes be the annex of the most self-aggrandising nonsense, particularly when one enters the realm of post-structuralism of the most incoherent sort, when it is not coming from...
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A nuclear future?
Rizwan Asghar
As the bipolar nuclear order in South Asia is headed in an uncertain direction, too many questions remain unanswered. What is the future of continued expansion of nuclear power in the region? Would...
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The threat to democracy
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Those who were thrilled by the emergence of the PTI on the political horizon of Pakistan in the wake of the Lahore rally addressed by Imran Khan in 2011, and heralded his entry as a revolutionary...
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Healthcare and the census
Waqas Younas
We are a developing country whose healthcare system is in a deplorable condition; and the lack of updated census data makes it even worse. For accurate data we need to conduct a census –...