opinion
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Compromise or catastrophe?
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
The writer is a former ambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.In memory of Zainul Abedin, whom I got to know without ever having met. I knew him for his...
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The big lie
Yannick Giovanni Marshall
Joe Biden says we must listen to each other, stop the shouting, lower the temperature and end this uncivil war. As if the problem between the two camps is not that one has been killing the other but...
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The prime minister of debt
Bilal Kayani
Say the word U-turn in any political discussion and everyone immediately knows who is being referred to. That is how integral the word has become to Imran Khan’s identity.Whenever Khan makes a...
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Dwindling public spaces
Mansoor Raza
A lot many public spaces in Karachi have vanished away and succumbed to the pressures of elite-steered real-estate development.The causes of the phenomenon are highlighted by civil society...
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Towards knowledge
Atta-ur-Rahman
Prime Minister Imran Khan is leading a historic effort aimed at developing a strong knowledge economy. Projects worth about Rs120 billion are in various stages of approval. Some have already been...
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After the fight?
Farhan Bokhari
As Prime Minister Imran Khan and his PTI square off with the country’s opposition parties in the lead up to this year's Senate polls, the two sides face the risk of eventually facing an...