opinion
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Are we all not refugees?
Aijaz Zaka Syed
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a young and upcoming American writer and author of the bestselling novel, ‘The Sympathizer’. He landed in the ‘land of the free’ with his family in the summer of 1975...
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Smog, air pollution and oil
Syed Akhtar Ali
Autumn has come and smog is in, more intensely in northern and central Punjab and especially in Lahore.Smog, although short-lived, and causing invisibility and immediate health issues, brings into...
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Democracy and street protest
Khalid Bhatti
As mentioned in the first part, most of the democratic, political and economic rights and freedoms that we enjoy today in the liberal democracies have been the result of mass actions, movements and...
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Requiem for Peshawar
Shakil Durrani
Peshawar needs to be pitied. In truth, every city in Pakistan is similarly choking. Western Peshawar was amazingly well-planned, , by the British till irresponsible ‘democracy’ arrived in the...
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Nationalism over economy
Patrick Cockburn
Britain is becoming more and more like Northern Ireland. This should be a comfort to Arlene Foster and the DUP as they rue their betrayal by Boris Johnson over the Irish border.Northern Irish...
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Against imperialism
Ajamu Baraka
Global dominance has been the centerpiece of US policy in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union when the US suddenly found itself without a counter to its global imperialist...