opinion
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Rule of law – but who rules?
Imtiaz Alam
When we met him in Islamabad last Saturday, he looked quite sombre with a sense of disappointment about him. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seemed to be weighing his options either to...
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The path to energy security
Awais Anwer Khawaja
Energy security is one of the hallmarks of success for any economy in the present times. The paucity of energy has haunted the economy of Pakistan for a decade now. Severe shortages and intermittent...
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The same old Pakistan
M Saeed Khalid
Over two weeks have passed after the country’s most durable politician was disqualified from office and it seems that nothing much has changed. True, within hours of the judgment, Muhammad...
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Where the real paradox lies
Talat Farooq
On Saturday, US National Security Adviser Gen McMaster said in a radio interview that President Trump wants Pakistan to change its ‘paradoxical’ policy regarding militant proxies. He...
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A maze to the start
Raja Omer Shabbir
In a recent newspaper column in the Turkish daily, ‘YeniSafak’, a Turkish columnist called former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s ouster as a ‘judicial coup’ in...
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A creeping threat
Robert Hunziker
“In the next few decades we’ll be driving species to extinction a thousand times faster than we should be,” Dr Stuart Pimm, conservation ecologist, Duke University. “It is...