opinion
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Grading Pakistan’s August 5 gestures
Mosharraf Zaidi
Some of the public-facing symbolic gestures that Pakistan is making in solidarity with Kashmiris to observe one year since the annexation of Occupied Kashmir on August 5 are being criticized. It is...
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Banning books - Part II
Dr Naazir Mahmood
Of the 100 books recently banned by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, 65 are from the discipline of social studies. A majority of these books are banned on issues such as maps or...
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The world’s biggest land grab - Part I
Ahmed Quraishi
India’s credentials as a responsible member of the international community faced a serious challenge in 2019, and continue to do so into 2020. New Delhi, long seen as a possible anchor for...
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Year of tyranny
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Veteran Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gilani has called for a complete strike on August 5 in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, urging people to observe the days as ‘Awareness Day’.The Pakistan...
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Consequences of inequality
Richard D Wolff
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent tendency is only occasionally stopped or reversed when...
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Wrong message
Cesar Chelala
Public health messages addressed to the general population should be clear and unambiguous. This is particularly important in times of a pandemic like that caused by the coronavirus. Millions of...