opinion
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Whataboutery vs sober introspection
Mosharraf Zaidi
After the trauma of the 1971 partition of Pakistan, it would have been useful to engage in a process of brutal introspection. Realistically however, the kind of shock 1971 represented meant that,...
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The end of the world as we know it
Khayyam Mushir
On the eve of the new millennium, at a New Year’s party, I recall the frenzied atmosphere in the countdown to the year 2000. Apocalyptic predictions for the turn of the century had littered...
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No time for war
Abdul Sattar
The recent statement made by Indian Army Chief Bipin Rawat regarding a possible two-front war with Pakistan and China is quite unfortunate. Speaking at a seminar in New Delhi, General Rawat said...
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Random thoughts: A matter of give and take
Dr A Q Khan
There has been a great deal of sabre-rattling after North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test. The first reaction, with an aggressive rhetoric, came from US President Trump. The North Koreans are a...
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The festering wound
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Speaking at the General Assembly in a debate on the Culture of Peace, Maleeha Lodhi, the permanent envoy of Pakistan at the UN, said that the situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir was a travesty of...
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Weapons of disaster
Robert Dodge
The world watches as the natural disasters of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the earthquake off Mexico wreak their devastation, waiting for their final tolls of death, destruction and devastation....