opinion
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Schizophrenia and the courts
Barrister Mohammad A Qayyum
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the managing partner of Qayyum & Associates at Lahore. The recent judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, declining to...
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The general’s farewell service to the nation
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary Maulana Fazlur Rehman doesn’t realise the debt of gratitude he owes Imran Khan. If it weren’t for Khan would Nawaz Sharif bother about the Maulana and put up with his...
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How not to legislate
Asad Jamal
Part - II The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2016 draws a lot from the draft bill presented by former senator Sughra Imam and passed in the Senate in 2015. The same bill was taken up in the...
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The October itch
Shahzad Chaudhry
Nawaz Sharif has them coming from three directions, four if some pending issues of Model Town are to be included too. But when the Panama leaks first hit, he was defiant, then tentative, and then...
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CPEC imperilled
Iftekhar A Khan
Fleeting moments The old comrades-in-protests Chairman Imran Khan and Sheikhul Islam Tahirul Qadri have agreed to join hands once again to stage another show in Islamabad. A show that’s...
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The Afghan war
Rupert Stone
The US is still at war in Afghanistan - not that you’d know it from the presidential election. While the campaign against ISIL in Iraq and Syria or the 2011 intervention in Libya have been...