Opinions
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Silencing the disappeared
THE news item was splashed across newspapers and websites because it took to task a man in the limelight —…
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A warning to rights activists
IT took the US supreme court about half a century to overturn its own ruling on the abortion rights of…
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Election: early warnings
GENERAL elections may be 16 months away if the existing legislatures complete their full five-year term but election season seems…
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Wrong experts, wrong focus
FOR the last many decades, we learn, Pakistan has continued to face the same issues — current account deficit, barely sufficient…
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Promises to keep
ON June 17, 2022, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari addressed the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad. As foreign minister, leader of…
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Pakistan’s changing heat map
THE scorching temperatures and prolonged heatwave in several parts of Pakistan are a reminder of what lies ahead for the…
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Everything for sale
CONSCIENTIOUS intellectuals of the modern world would feel no hesitation in admitting that the original sin of the New World,…
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Politics of establishment
THERE was an element of inevitability about Imran Khan’s outburst against the security establishment. He feels dejected at being left…
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Fear of oil prices
THE government has finally mustered the courage to raise oil prices in the country. The first hike was announced in May, more…
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After the march
IT was an abrupt end to the much-hyped ‘freedom march’. Imran Khan’s threat to storm the capital with over a…
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