opinion
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Do you know your Jinnah?
Ghazi Salahuddin
Just a thought, left for me by a friend: when Narendra Modi and his Hindutva warriors are bent on driving secularism out of Indian politics, can we, in Pakistan, give it refuge?In other words, will...
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Need for economic vision
Foqia Sadiq Khan
One may question the need to debate the economic vision when the country is already under yet another IMF programme and prescriptions for economic management have been handed down to the...
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From Kerala to Karachi: the travails of B M Kutty (Part-I)
Dr Naazir Mahmood
My father knew B M Kutty – who died in Karachi on August 25, 2019 – since the early 1950s. They were not close friends but shared a common streak of left-wing and progressive politics in...
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The great garbage battle
Zaigham Khan
Waseem Akhtar wrote in the official letter that the appointment was made in response to the claim that Mustafa Kamal could clean the city of Karachi within 90 days. Unfortunately, the mayor...
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Electrocuted in Karachi
Dr Farrukh Saleem
There are 4,416 cities in the world with a population of over 150,000. Question: Name the city in which dozens of lives are lost from electrocution whenever it rains. Hint: This city is not in...