opinion
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The Pope in Iraq
Amanat Ali Chaudhry
The four-day tour of war-torn Iraq by Pope Francis is a significant event at several levels. Undertaken amidst serious security concerns and at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the first-ever...
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Victory for workers
Rebekah Entralgo
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is more than just a response to the coronavirus. It’s also one of the largest anti-poverty measures in US history.Provisions in the...
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The masculinity of power
Amir Hussain
History, in a patriarchal society, is all about romantic indulgence with the past which is full of demons, fairies and witches to be overpowered by brave men ultimately.Bravery is exalted as a...
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Arabic as panacea?
Anjum Altaf
How convenient it is for people to earn brownie points at the cost of others and with no cost to themselves. The Senate approved, with just one dissenting vote, the Compulsory Teaching of the Arabic...
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China’s fight against poverty
Shah Fahad
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping has claimed that his country has completely eradicated extreme poverty. China faced many vicissitudes in the forms of back-to-back revolutions, civil war and economic...
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Racial justice
rob urie
The racial justice protests of the summer of 2020 tied to four years of #Resistance, but more precisely to the unresolved Black Lives Matter protests of 2014 – 2015 that preceded it. What both...