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The detailed judgment

Hakim Hazik · Jun 23, 2012

Justice Khosa is the last man left standing between edifying culture of high class poetry and the horrid plebeians who occupy the parliament house. If it was not for him, we would all be reading fake speeches of Lord Sahib Macaulay and senile interjections of …

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‘They’ kept a Pakistani from visiting India

Pervez Hoodbhoy · Jun 23, 2012

I do not know how it is from the Indian side. Are the requirements for a visa just as dauntingly obtuse? Do RAW agents harass and insult those Indians applying to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi for a visa? Let the angry Indian speak up from his side of …

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Masoodullah Khan

Adnan Farooq · Jun 23, 2012

Did anybody see Minhaj Barna receiving any award? Did you see Mazhar Ali Khan or Nisar Usmani receiving any benefit? But tell me: was Mazhar Ali Khan not a celebrity of his own kind? These days the concept of celebrity is different: actors and comedians are me …

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PPP: Rescuing Pakistan Army, once again

Mazhar Arif · Jun 23, 2012

Contrary to the steps taken by Junejo and Nawaz Sharif, Mr Zardari and Mr Gilani have come forward to save the face of the army and to rescue the generals caught red-handed. PPP leaders, perhaps, are trying to pre-empt any desperate action by the army Irony of …

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9/11 & conspiracy theories

Ishtiaq Ahmed · Jun 23, 2012

Terrorism as a tool to challenge a state or some social and political order has deep historical roots in the politics of the world but from the late 19 th century onwards it become attractive as an ideology to both extreme right and left wing political forces. …

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The Middle East counter-revolution: Thierry Meyssan

Viewpoint · Jun 23, 2012

Within months, three pro-Western governments have fallen in the Arab World: parliament removed Saad Hariri’s Lebanese government, while popular movements drove out Zine el-Abbidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Husni Mubarak in Egypt. These changes have been followed …

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‘Ousting PM instead of Parliament is the new khaki tactic’

Viewpoint · Jun 21, 2012

It goes without saying that the first thing which the Supreme Court will ask the next PM to do is to write the letter to the Swiss authorities. He will refuse too and the game continues The Supreme Court’s verdict to disqualify Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillan …

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A letter to Gen. Hameed Gul

Farooq Sulehria · Jun 20, 2012

While you and your protégés at the ISI headquarters have been dispatching battalions after battalions of suicide bombers, India has infiltrated Afghanistan by building hospitals, roads, transport and education systems. India has contributed $1 billion to the r …

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Power games

Sher Ali Khan · Jun 19, 2012

While battling the civilian government on an institutional level, the SC has been dependent on the media for sustained popular support. Consequently, when the Familygate gave birth to the Mediagate scandal, a credibility crisis is now facing both What started …

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Et Tu Bootay

Hakim Hazik · Jun 18, 2012

The western civilisation has become hollow from the inside. In the end it is the true message of Islam that will triumph. That is what Dr. Asalan was trying to achieve in the rented Range Rover Sport when he was filmed by the award winning documentaries produc …

Cartoons

Cartoon: 14 June 2012

Sabir Nazar · Jun 14, 2012

Viewpoint editorial cartoon

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A country in search of nation

Arshad Mehmood · Jun 4, 2012

The story of Pakistan is of an “un-organic nation” in constant state of war on itself on the matters of nationhood, identity and its languages Pakistan is neither a historical construct nor a nation. It is ahistorical for it defies the very idea and definition …

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Exorcism of Saudi specter

Jamshed Iqbal · May 27, 2012

It is better to be original native than to be a fake Arab. Let’s unlearn false stories about our forefathers and own ourselves by exorcism of Saudi specter! Within the Cold War, there was inter-Arab war being fought in the Middle East---over the question of po …

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Sethi, Jemima, Galloway: toxic mix of religion & politics

Ayesha Ijaz Khan · May 27, 2012

While it is true that Galloway has used mosques and aroused emotional sentiments of Muslim Britons against British foreign policy to “out-Muslim Labour’s Muslim British-Pakistani candidate,” as Jemima puts it, I couldn’t help but wonder if Jemima had ever hear …

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Decision to rein in Difa-e-Pakistan Council

Mujahid Hussain · May 23, 2012

Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already warned that the Defence of Pakistan Council is harming Pakistan’s interests at external front According to well placed reports, it has been decided at a high-level meeting that the Defence of Pakistan Council [Difa-e-Pak …

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The Punjabi hegemony

Raza Habib Raja · May 23, 2012

The current structure is skewed, whether deliberately or inadvertently, in favour of Punjab. Hence, not surprisingly, the identity of Punjab’s middle-class is strongly reminiscent of official version of what constitutes a Pakistani The selective way of present …

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In search of Seraiki soul

Amjad Nazeer · May 21, 2012

Suitable to the ‘divide and rule’ tactics, now Punjabi establishment is abetting Punjabi and Urdu settlers to stand up for a Bahawalpur province. It holds no support Much has been spoken about the body politic of a Seraiki Province, mostly with reference to po …

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Arab region, autumn of the patriarchs: Aijaz Ahmad

Viewpoint · May 19, 2012

A GREAT wave of anger, frustration, defiance and democratic demand is sweeping across the Arab world, from the Atlantic shore to the Gulf of Aden and from Amman to Khartoum. As I write these lines on Thursday, February 3, the epicentre of this great uprising h …

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The poor against the poor: Owen Jones

Viewpoint · May 19, 2012

The August riots in England may foreshadow far worse: they are the result of almost 30 years of deliberate destruction of a way of life and work that had a place for even the least-educated of young urban men. This August communities across England were terror …

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Who's afraid of Saadat Hasan Manto? Garga Chatterjee

Viewpoint · May 19, 2012

The left-wing student organization I belonged to in my college days in Kolkata used to have a poster exhibition every year. This exhibition has begun to take place every year after the 1992 demolition of the Babri structure. One of them had those memorable wor …

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