opinion
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Party games
Kamila Hyat
With thoughts beginning to turn towards an election that now lies just over six months away, the situation of our political parties is naturally something to be contemplated and, perhaps, something...
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A bumpy transition
Imtiaz Alam
The former prime minister had pretty much left the stage, but Nawaz Sharif has staged a dramatic comeback in a rearguard legislative action and re-election as the president of the PML-N. This...
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Sindh’s development vision
Mushtaq Rajpar
Transforming Sindh’s agrarian society into a modern industrial one is a daunting task. Without land reforms, structural socio-economic and political inequality will not end but sadly no one in...
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An end to the darkness
Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
It was the perfect setting. We had gathered on the historic occasion of the contract-signing for the construction of the 1,263 MW RLNG-fuelled Punjab Power Plant. The initiative will be wholly...
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The nuclear taboo
Rizwan Asghar
The US, along with eight other nuclear-armed states, remains unable to reduce reliance on threats to use nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, continued dependence on ‘nuclear blackmail’ or...
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Nightmare in Vegas
Andrew Mitrovica
The latest spasm of ‘record-breaking’ violence occurred on a warm Sunday evening when a lone gunman, holed up in a Las Vegas hotel room with an arsenal fit for a small militia, fired an...
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Difficult diplomacy
our correspondents
Just two days after Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani , a hearing of the US House Armed Services Committee showed just how difficult it will be for Pakistan to...
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Independence for Catalonia
our correspondents
For those of us used to looking at European democracy as a beacon that respects the rights of citizens, the actions of the Spanish police in the province of Catalonia have shocked many. Images of...