opinion
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When outrage is not enough
Babar Sattar
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.As a man one can’t possibly relate to the horror endured by the woman who was raped in front of her kids on the Motorway this week. And what one can’t...
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Life in post-9/11 America
Braxton Haake
A seismic shift befell American politics after the September 11 attacks, and 19 years later, Muslim Americans are still dealing with the aftershocks.Most people are familiar with the so-called war...
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Yearning for straight talk
Dr Ayesha Razzaque
A BBC report on September 4 describes one of the great mysteries of the Covid-19 pandemic: the African continent was bracing for waves of hospitalizations and deaths that never materialized and a...
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Kashmir and the UN
Malik Muhammad Ashraf
The Indian government, after ending the special status of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and its subsequent annexation to the Indian Union in blatant violation of the UNSC resolutions, has been...
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SNC and the language question
Neelam Hanif
Imagine reading a book where you understand only 50 percent of the content due to lack of competence in the language the book is written. Would you enjoy that reading experience?Now, imagine...
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Finding freedom
Aimen Siddiqui
In 2016, I took my first international trip to Dubai and felt liberated in the city. People who are close to me may find this statement to be an exaggeration – I have been quite an independent...