opinion
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Remember the motorway rape
Mosharraf Zaidi
It is not yet a full two weeks since the gang-rape on the motorway that purportedly shocked Pakistan. Then again, it is over eighteen years since the gang-rape in a village that purportedly shocked...
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Challenging US unilateralism
Abdul Sattar
The great Greek philosopher Thrasymachus once opined that justice is nothing but the advantage of the stronger party. Historians have come up with various interpretations of this saying. It seems...
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Fair and fluent
Anjum Altaf
Neelam Hanif has mounted a passionate defence of English as the medium of instruction but I fear the passion is misspent.Look at the beginning: “English… is part of the colonial baggage we...
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Romanticizing industrialization
Dr Khaqan Hassan Najeeb
An economic growth of 1.9 percent in FY19, a contraction of 0.4 percent in FY20 and estimates of a muted growth of 2 percent in FY21 for Pakistan would have any policymaker rethink the strategy at...
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Wildfires and politics
Kumar Venkat
As the US West Coast struggled to contain unprecedented wildfires, Donald Trump maintained that science really doesn’t know the root cause of this devastation. Before we dismiss this as another...
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Options for schooling
Chandra Whitfield
This novel coronavirus still stumps world-renowned epidemiologists. How can parents adequately ascertain what’s best? My kids have tearfully intimated on more occasions than I care to acknowledge...