opinion
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Fundamental probe
Syed Talat Hussain
The legal parameters for the Supreme Court’s handling of the Panama leaks and other related affairs are shaping up quite quickly. Today is a crucial day; the Supreme Court will receive the...
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Trust – but verify
Syed Mohibullah Shah
The division between rich and poor nations is neither god-given nor does it have divine sanction. It is neither determined by rich deposits of resources nor is it caused by the scarcity of...
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Resistance through education
Shahid Siddiqui
The history of imperialism is ridden with treachery, guile and coercion. To control the colonised, all possible methods are used, ranging from persuasion to coercion. India, under the British rule,...
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Foggy days
Adnan Adil
Winters traditionally begin with foggy days in the plains of Punjab but the fog that enveloped Lahore on November 2 was unprecedented. The smoky haze stayed all day, unlike the past when it...
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Dying many times over
Barrister Mohammad A Qayyum
It is commonplace to hear that the civil adjudication system in Pakistan is broken and makes the litigant die many times over, not just proverbially but also in its delays in that it is a...
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World War III
Jonathan Marshall
If humanity ever suffers a Third World War, chances are good it will start in some locale distant from the United States like the Baltic or South China Seas, the Persian Gulf, or Syria, where...