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Ardeshir Cowasjee

Hypocrisy compounded

iv id= NOW that the `arranged` cacophony over the Kerry-Lugar affair has subsided — it served no purpose but to ... Published 25 Oct, 2009 12:00am

Powers that be vs environment

iv id= This browbeaten country is haemorrhaging heavily, thanks to the benefits of the disgraceful black NRO. Punjab... Published 18 Oct, 2009 12:00am

Can beggars be choosers?

iv id= THE news as far as our media is concerned has been subsumed by the outcry, somewhat comically national,... Published 11 Oct, 2009 12:00am

The denial of reality

iv id= THE verbal wasteland that largely makes up Pakistan`s media bubbles away with what is taken for debate by us... Published 04 Oct, 2009 12:00am

Is anyone listening?

iv id= `YOU are not really listening`, Mohammad Nasheed of the Maldives told a hundred fellow heads of state and... Published 27 Sep, 2009 12:00am

People must protest

iv id= A SEPT 4 Dawn headline warns us `World heads for climate abyss UN`. After a visit to the Arctic to witness ... Published 06 Sep, 2009 12:00am

Let justice awaken

iv id= THE resurrection on television last Wednesday by the former chief justice of Pakistan, Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui,... Published 30 Aug, 2009 12:00am

Not the business of the state

iv id= It has taken a mere 62 years — a blip in the life of many a nation, many an empire — for those who pass for... Published 16 Aug, 2009 12:00am

A plea to CJ Osmany

iv id= This column being about our courts, justice and equity, it must open with congratulations to Justice Sarmad... Published 09 Aug, 2009 12:00am

Creatures large and small

iv id= In a country in which animals are treated and regarded as inanimate objects for the use and abuse of human... Published 02 Aug, 2009 12:00am

For cleaner waterways

iv id= KARACHI last weekend mirrored the non-functioning of our elected governments in Islamabad and the provincial... Published 26 Jul, 2009 12:00am

The Gizri flyover

iv id= On June 27 a public hearing was conducted by the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) on the... Published 12 Jul, 2009 12:00am

The deprived have been heard

iv id= Praise be to Providence! The honourable chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, has heard the plea of... Published 05 Jul, 2009 12:00am

Spirit of the 1973 constitution

A PROMINENT headline in this newspaper on June 25, 2009 informed us that our powerless prime minister, appointed by... Published 28 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Stand up and fight

iv id= WE are told that the approximate 20-hour blackout gifted to Karachi on June 17-18 by the Karachi Electric... Published 21 Jun, 2009 12:00am

A plea to the Lord Chief Justice

iv id= ACCUSATIONS are often made against me and fellow commentators that we are pessimistic, that we do not give... Published 14 Jun, 2009 12:00am