opinion
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Pakistan’s awesome Generation Z
Mosharraf Zaidi
The wonderful Kamal Siddiqi has just written a fabulous piece about post-millennials titled ‘Behold, Generation Z’ that everyone should read. As a proud, but aging member of Generation X, it is...
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Democracy on the march
Ammar Ali Jan
Over the last few months, we have witnessed a plethora of long marches and square occupations in the country. The TLYR-led long march, which resulted in a spectacular capitulation of the government...
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Economic reforms: Part - XV
Waqar Masood Khan
The disappointment with the fate that PIA’s privatisation plans met pales in comparison to what happened with the plans to privatise the corporatised entities of Wapda.As we briefly discussed in...
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Beyond the Senate polls
Abdul Sattar
During the 1990s, when a bill against floor-crossing was passed in parliament, the late Benazir Bhutto threw her weight behind this legislation.The daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto also extended her...
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Trump’s war on the environment
Mel Gurtov
As has been widely reported, the resignations, retirements, and constraints placed upon government scientists crimp the executive branch’s preparedness for what is to come. As just one example,...
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Guns aren’t the answer
Mitchell Zimmerman
After the massacre of kindergarteners at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the gun lobby offered its usual blame-the-victims, good-guy-with-a-gun excuse: If only the teachers had been armed!This...