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Displaying the unity of purpouse that has made this country what it is today, Pakistan will be celebrating Eid on two different days. In parts of the NWFP, the first day of Eid is already winding down; the rest of the country will binge on rice-and-milk-based desserts tomorrow.
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A three-minute segment from a recent episode of Kal Tak, a talk show on Express News hosted by Javed Chaudhry, has been making the YouTube rounds. A discussion, if the television equivalent of a bar-room brawl can be termed as such, between the PPP’s Firdous Ashiq and the PML-Q’s Kashmala Tariq ensures, with newly-appointed Nation editor Shireen Mazari playing the role of a bystander.
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A politician claiming that his words have been taken out of context is like a schoolchild using the dog-ate-my-homework excuse. But former president Pervez Musharraf’s anger at the international media for distorting his words is, in fact, justified.
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One current and one former head of state try their hand at telling jokes.
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The death of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, on September 12 has generated an outpouring of grief and praise. Could it be that the man widely feted for saving a billion lives is responsible for Pakistan’s current food crisis?
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Every Sunday, The Water Cooler will give a run down of the week’s oddest, funniest and most interesting stories from and about Pakistan.
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Defining 9/11 simply by the number of people it killed is both reductive and misleading. For the day to serve as a useful analogy, writers must be more specific when they invoke it. Apart from the tragic deaths, 9/11 also caused, however short-lived, a unity of purpose among Americans.
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Pick a name that sounds like a parody of those terrorist organisations in James Bond movies bent on world-domination, and chances are that you will constantly be dogged by controversy. The charge-sheet against the military company Blackwater, founded by Erik Prince (or Blofeld if you want to take the 007 analogy any further), is impressive . . .
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Readers tend to find redesigns annoying and inconvenient, akin to your favourite television programme being shifted to a new time slot. But in the case of Newsline, this is as much a reinvention as a redesign. Think of this new site, with its user-friendliness, additional content and interactive nature, as an essential accompaniment to the monthly magazine.
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