opinion
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Facts and malice in law
Abdul Moiz Jaferii
The writer is a lawyer.Eight out of 10 members of the Supreme Court have finally detailed the reasons due to which they declared the reference sent by the president, accusing Justice Qazi Faez Isa...
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Trump’s tax cuts
Sarah Anderson
“We gave you the greatest, biggest tax cut in history!” crowed President Trump at a recent rally in Prescott, Arizona.If that rally crowd had been packed with billionaires, they would’ve had...
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Banking on Biden
Abdul Sattar
Democratic-minded people all over the world are pinning hopes on American presidential candidate Joe Biden who has vowed to defend democracy, human rights, freedom of the press and independence of...
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Uprooting corruption
Atta-ur-Rahman
Pakistan was on the brink of becoming a failed state when Prime Minister Imran Khan took over. The courts had been compromised; the bureaucracy too has been similarly corrupted, making it very...
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Not to question why
Anjum Altaf
As an academic, I welcome the defence of the Single National Curriculum offered by Zulfiqar Ali Shaikh from the Ministry of Education. It provides a ‘teaching moment’ illuminating not just the...
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A pandemic pivot
John Feffer
If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time.It has done just about everything wrong, from the failure to contain the...