opinion
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Celebrating the year 2016
Mosharraf Zaidi
As the calendar year comes to a close, there is a narrative about 2016 being a very bad year. Lots of important people died during 2016, and many terrible events took place. As the year ends, there...
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Nuclear wars
Melissa Batchelor Warnke
The week before, Trump’s people requested the names of all department officials who worked on the Paris climate change accords. Man, do you think Trump is making a list of State and Energy...
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Pakistan’s problem is moderation, not extremism
Ayaz Amir
Islamabad diary Extremism, hate speech and sectarianism – the ills we are familiar with – are products of Pakistani moderation. The maulvi, the cleric, the doctor of the faith did not...
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The commando speak
M Saeed Khalid
Pervez Musharraf is in the news again but, first, the story. While in school, Pervez got lower grades than his studious brother, Javed. Their mother judged that Pervez would do well in the army....
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There will be no consent
Emily Johnston
On November 9, like a lot of people around the world, I was stunned and devastated. In the days and weeks afterward, I was hit by new waves from that same feeling, worrying in turn about Muslim...
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Whither public goods?
Dr Raashid Wali Janjua
What happens when a society sets itself upon a course to self destruction without understanding the consequences of its actions or – in a situation that is more germane to the Pakistani...
