opinion
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Covid-19, Kashmir and us
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.No one knows how long the Covid-19 pandemic will last. Or if it will be followed by sequential...
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How to protest
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Coronavirus and quarantine measures have posed significant challenges for social movements at a time when governments are taking important decisions on people’s lives as well as living...
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What lies ahead
Humayun Akhtar Khan
There is an overload of talk about the pandemic but not too many answers or even the right questions being asked. The lifting of the lockdown was imminent even as cases are on the rise.In Pakistan,...
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Review the dam
Suleman Najib Khan
An elementary question, as the Diamer-Basha dam makes headlines this week: Why is Pakistan off to make the world’s tallest Roller Compacted Concrete dam – an unmoving, inflexible, rigid...
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Blaming China
Shah Fahad
In an attempt to find a scapegoat for the failures of the US health system, American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other right-wing politicians of the country have pointed their guns towards...
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Conquest of Makkah
Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani
So many hundreds of years ago, Muslims entered the holy city of Makkah – with dignity, glory and pride – from where they were forced to migrate.The holy Prophet and his companions had to...