opinion
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Mind control gone foul?
Babar Sattar
Legal eye Here is one version of how private media emerged in Pakistan under Musharraf. After Kargil, private TV channels in India spoke with one voice claiming that Pakistan was a terrorist...
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From Moscow, with love
Fahd Humayun
As Islamabad grapples with the uncertainties of a new Trump administration, a recent timeline of Russian advances to Pakistan is not inconsequential. In 2016, Pakistan and Russia reached a price...
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The myth of a post-racial America
Rizwan Asghar
Over the past few decades, scholars and political pundits have debated whether race and ethnicity matter to American politics. During this period, we have witnessed the election of an...
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Old questions, old answers
Hussain H Zaidi
The question remains the same, albeit the people at the helm who will be answering it have changed: How to deal with ‘an errant boy’ in the comity of nations called Pakistan? The country...
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Language and identity
Kahar Zalmay
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his mother language that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela The age of...
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Fidel’s legacy
Arnold August
On December 27, 2016, the Cuban National Assembly of People’s Power held a debate on how to legislate the will of Fidel to reject any tendency toward the ‘cult of personality’. The...