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Engage or punish?
THE thing about Pakistanis is that we’re too sure of our assumptions. The Americans need us to withdraw from Afghanistan. We’re convinced of it. So…
THE thing about Pakistanis is that we’re too sure of our assumptions. The Americans need us to withdraw from Afghanistan. We’re convinced of it. So…
Smokers’ Corner: Crown of thorns
In countries like Pakistan where democracy wasn’t allowed to properly take root, there is always the threat of it becoming a backdoor for mobs of…
In countries like Pakistan where democracy wasn’t allowed to properly take root, there is always the threat of it becoming a backdoor for mobs of…
View from US: Something to chew like ‘pink slime’
Lady Gaga wears a dress made of meat stitched in ‘pink slime.’ Even the jaunty bonnet on her head is a slab of beef. If…
Lady Gaga wears a dress made of meat stitched in ‘pink slime.’ Even the jaunty bonnet on her head is a slab of beef. If…
Shame in Chicago
WHY did Pakistan’s president attend the Nato summit in Chicago? The US had not met any of Pakistan’s conditions for resetting relations after the Salala…
WHY did Pakistan’s president attend the Nato summit in Chicago? The US had not met any of Pakistan’s conditions for resetting relations after the Salala…
The contest for pre-eminence
MARGINS cannot determine the fate of the text. At the moment, the story of the next elections to Rashtrapati Bhavan is in neither array nor…
MARGINS cannot determine the fate of the text. At the moment, the story of the next elections to Rashtrapati Bhavan is in neither array nor…
How to leave Afghanistan
Last weekend’s Nato summit in Chicago was mostly about how to get Nato troops out of Afghanistan without causing too much embarrassment to the western…
Last weekend’s Nato summit in Chicago was mostly about how to get Nato troops out of Afghanistan without causing too much embarrassment to the western…
Manto and Sindh
SINDH has no equivalent of Saadat Hasan Manto as a chronicler of Partition. And the absence of a Manto-like figure in Sindhi literature on that…
SINDH has no equivalent of Saadat Hasan Manto as a chronicler of Partition. And the absence of a Manto-like figure in Sindhi literature on that…
The fractured Hurriyat
“UNITED we stand, divided we fall’. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) consistently flouted this admonition which is blazoned across the cover of its constitution…
“UNITED we stand, divided we fall’. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) consistently flouted this admonition which is blazoned across the cover of its constitution…
Other Voices
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Editorial
Bus slaughter
FROM the violent stirrings over the ‘Mohajir province’ to Friday’s barbaric bus ambush, Sindh’s fragile…
18 hours ago
FROM the violent stirrings over the ‘Mohajir province’ to Friday’s barbaric bus ambush, Sindh’s fragile…
18 hours ago
Visa liberalisation
THE outcome of the talks between the Pakistani and Indian interior secretaries in Islamabad was…
18 hours ago
THE outcome of the talks between the Pakistani and Indian interior secretaries in Islamabad was…
18 hours ago
Kidney trade
THE illegal kidney trade in Pakistan has reached such dimensions that eliminating it is a…
18 hours ago
THE illegal kidney trade in Pakistan has reached such dimensions that eliminating it is a…
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