opinion
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A tale of two teens
Hana Kiros
I remember being thirteen and staying up to see if Trayvon Martin’s killer would be convicted. The announcement of the verdict kept being pushed back, but I kept watching – hoping that the...
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Energy mega scams
Atta-ur-Rahman
Pakistan’s exports have stagnated at $25 billion while Bangladesh, Vietnam while many other Asian countries have forged ahead. A key factor in our industrial collapse is the element of mega...
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On polygyny
Munazza Siddiqui
The Muslim Family Laws Ordinance of 1961 is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation to come out of that era in Pakistan. It was decades later that other Muslim countries were able to...
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Foreign policy tragedy
Saleem Safi
Politics and governance are as poles apart as cricket and politics. Like cricket, which cannot be mastered without hard practice and vast experience, politics too needs hard struggle and practical...
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Covid-19 and the US
Juan Cole
The US reported its sixth million coronavirus case, and deaths are headed toward 200,000. It is hard to explain just how bad the US death rate under Trump from the novel coronavirus is.It isn’t...