opinion
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Truth shall prevail
Syed Talat Hussain
Bow to the truth for its buoyancy. It pops up from strange locations, at odd times, in the weirdest ways possible – to the embarrassment and humiliation of those who attempt to kill and sink it. A...
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Markhors and haraamkhors
Zaigham Khan
My Lord, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, is not impressed by the goatly charm and manly posture of the markhor, our national animal, that found its place recently on the tail of the national flag...
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The lure of the city
Mubarak Ali
Oswald Spengler, a German historian, was working as a teacher at a school when the idea to write a book on the rise and fall of civilisations cropped up in his mind.He resigned from his job and...
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Ramazan: blessings and obligations Part - I
Dr A Q Khan
The blessed month of Ramazan has come. Those with meagre or no resources will once again face the daunting task of increased prices and struggle to put food on the table for iftar and sehri.For...
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A legacy of deficits
Fahd Humayun
The odds that the PML-N was going to be remembered for having contributed meaningfully to Pakistan’s foreign policy and reputation-building abroad were never high to begin with. But Nawaz...
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Immigrants’ plight
Samantha Krop
The United States of America’s Declaration of Independence states “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain...
