opinion
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The curse of resilience
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. We have become a strange people. Over 60,000 civilians, who never signed up for any war, have had their lives claimed by terrorism while...
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Redistribution and unequal societies
Shahid Mehmood
This is the year of the Olympics, and Brazil is the proud host of this event. It won this right in 2009 and Luiz Inacio Silva de Lula, Brazil’s popular president of the time, vowed to...
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The Kalam festival
Zubair Torwali
Few in Pakistan are unaware of the beauty and bounty of Swat and its idyllic heavens like Kalam. Kalam is a name in Gawri, the native language of the area, meaning ‘village of Ka’....
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The state of Pakistan
Ayaz Ahmed
A thorough analysis of Pakistan’s chequered past makes it abundantly clear that the country has spent much of its history in political instability, a downward economic trajectory, educational...
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Beyond winning and losing
Robert C Koehler
It’s the smallest thing in the world. Does the tennis ball land inside the line or outside? But somehow, as I watched this 60-second YouTube clip of an Australian tennis match last January,...
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No icon
Hamid Dabashi
What do we exactly do with such ‘iconic’ images? What did we do with that other “iconic” image of the lifeless Syrian boy, Aylan Kurdi, found dead by the...