opinion
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Plenty of blame
Nadir Hassan
Inquiry reports in Pakistan tend to take one of two forms. They are either suppressed – think Hamood-ur-Rehman or Osama bin Laden – or a whitewash – Saleem Shahzad and Benazir...
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Our days of infamy
Ghazi Salahuddin
It seems this is a very good time to try, in conjunction with some astral signs, to make sense of our national sense of direction against the backdrop of our entire history – starting from...
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Cultural ambivalence in Gilgit-Baltistan
Aziz Ali Dad
Humans are the only living beings that have succeeded in overcoming the limits imposed by instinct. This has helped them develop a worldview that fuels a better understanding of self, society and...
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Hambantota
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion In 2008, the EXIM Bank of China funded Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port. In 2010, the port was completed at a cost of $1.3 billion. In 2010, the Mahinda Rajapaksa National...
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Drama queens and spin doctors
M Saeed Khalid
December 16, 2014 was marked by grief and outrage. In the aftermath of the massacre of innocents at the Army Public School in Peshawar, the nation resolved to take the fight against terrorists to...