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[28 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Fakhr Ahmad]
A Case of Exploding Cargo?

What is the real story behind Transport Canada’s secret and hasty decision to search all PIA flights landing in Toronto last year?

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[28 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | Amir Zia]
The Battle for Karachi

Are the criminalisation of politics and politicisation of crime the biggest problems in Karachi?

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[28 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Amir Zia]
Interview: Waseem Ahmed

“Criminals have entered every political party,” says Waseem Ahmed, Capital City Police Officer in Karachi.

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[28 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Amir Zia]
Interview: Abdul Qadir Patel

“There is no den of heroin or of weapons in Lyari,” says Abdul Qadir Patel, MNA, Pakistan Peoples Party,

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[28 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Amir Zia]
Beyond the Grave

Rehman Dakait may have been killed last year but his legacy remains in the shape of the Peoples Amn Committee.

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[28 Feb 2010 | 10 Comments | Shanaz Ramzi]
Interview: Reema Khan

“Shaan was most unprofessional. He went off to do an ad for a diaper company, giving me the excuse that his mother was ill!” says Reema, when talking about the filming of her latest movie.

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[28 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Talib Qizilbash]
Interview: Tazeen Qayyum

“Maybe a venue like the Olympics compliments my work, where the obvious rosy picture of perfection exists superficially,” says contemporary miniaturist Tazeen Qayyum.

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[27 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Salwat Ali]
The Master of the Grid

The strength of Imran Mir’s Eleventh Paper on Modernism resides in the quality and range of his work.

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[26 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
The Carbon Scam

The biggest polluters on the planet have managed to legitimise their “right to pollute” more than they are entitled to via carbon trading.

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[26 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | Najma Sadeque]
Smooth Operator

Neither government nor polluter, the World Bank has managed to worm its way into the carbon trade.