opinion
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India’s pretensions
Mir Adnan Aziz
The British Empire had a penchant to view everything, including colonization and the mechanizations involved, as a game. It was Captain Arthur Conolly, a British intelligence officer, who coined the...
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The Assange case
Patrick Cockburn
Allegations against Assange put forward by the lawyers for the US government are flimsy or demonstrably false, yet he is still in real danger of being sent to a maximum security prison in the US...
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The whole of the nation
Ahsan Iqbal
COAS Gen Bajwa in his remarks to the Corp Commanders Conference has once again reiterated that 5th Generation Warfare and hybrid application against Pakistan’s vital interests must be...
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Language of instruction
Anjum Altaf
Almost every account of colonialism describes how the colonists planned to use education as a means of stabilizing and strengthening their rule. There was one system of education for those who were...
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Revamping the bureaucracy
Iftekhar A Khan
The government has decided to reform the bureaucracy. Far-reaching changes in the structure of bureaucracy would be incorporated to make it efficient and responsive to public needs. While the...
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Women in politics
Foqia Sadiq Khan
One field where the women’s movement has succeeded in Pakistan to a large extent is women’s political participation. Ayesha Khan’s perceptive book, ‘The Women’s Movement in Pakistan:...