opinion
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Lessons from the nuclear holocaust
Abdul Sattar
The writer is a freelance journalist.This month of the year should prompt us into some sombre reflection, particularly in light of recent events and tragedies. On August 6, 1945, the US stunned the...
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Broaden the protest?
Jonathan Cook
Israel is roiling with angry street protests that local observers have warned could erupt into open civil strife – a development Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be encouraging.For...
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Kashmir: an open wound
Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qayyum
After the slaughter of millions of human lives as a result of World War I, the League of Nations was created on January 10,1920 to ensure international peace.Later, Lenin regarded this organisation...
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The world’s biggest land grab - Part III
Ahmed Quraishi
US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate the Kashmir conflict between Pakistan and India marked a turning point. For starters, no American president has come out so strongly in favor of...
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Promises to keep
Kamila Hyat
Does Prime Minister Imran Khan wonder when he looks at all the video clips now constantly played over the media, depicting promises made by him in the past. These promises speak of drastic changes...
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Hunger season
Jonas Ecke
As the moral philosopher Peter Singer asserts, we are just as obligated to save a child half a world away than we are to save a child that is drowning right in front of our eyes.While in the past,...