opinion
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Mob violence and political will
Aijaz Zaka Syed
And so it goes on and on. If a widely respected 80-year-old public figure and civil society activist like Swami Agnivesh can be brutally beaten up – and nearly killed – in full view of the...
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The legal dimension of empowerment
Amir Hussain
There are visible gaps in the policy, discourse and practice of social development vis-a-vis the legal dimension of empowerment in Pakistan. Most of the social-mobilisation programmes have not...
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Predicting the unpredictable
Khalid Bhatti
It is not easy to predict an election in Pakistan. But the upcoming July 25 general elections have become even more difficult to predict. A lot has changed within a year; Pakistan’s politics is as...
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Our new old war
Shahzad Chaudhry
I served in London as a military attaché in the high commission between 1992 and 1996 when the IRA – the militant wing of the breakaway Sinn Fein of Northern Ireland – had laid siege to...
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A series of follies
Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani
What happened with former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif is quite unfortunate for the entire political arena. On various occasions, I tried to discuss with my former party leader the possible...
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Immigration chaos
Andrew Moss
If you scan the Internet for immigration-related news stories following the Trump administration’s May 7 announcement of its ‘zero tolerance’ border policy, you’ll find the word ‘chaos’...