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[4 Mar 2004 | Comments Off | Sherry Rehman]
Women in the House

Women are as much part of the party system as their male counterparts, and will rarely act outside the governing rules of their party, says Sherry Rehman, former Editor of the Herald and current President of the Pakistan Peoples Party Women’s Parliamentary Policy Committee and Member of the National Assembly.

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[6 Feb 2004 | Comments Off | Pervez Hoodbhoy]
For God and Profit

From the inception of the nuclear bomb programme, the Pakistani establishment has sought to turn its nuclear ambitions and success into larger gains, argues Pervez Hoodbhoy, professor of nuclear physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

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[15 Jan 2004 | Comments Off | Siddharth Varadarajan]
Peace in Our Time?

Siddharth Varadarajan in New Delhi believes that India and Pakistan have been following self-defeating policies. However, the recent confidence building measures indicate that the two countries might yet find peace.

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[14 Jan 2004 | Comments Off | Ayaz Amir]
Grow Up, Pakistan

The hawks in Islamabad are learning to fly like doves, but in the absence of a clear-cut flight plan, will they be able to glean any advantage from their change of attitude, asks Ayaz Amir.

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[8 Oct 2003 | Comments Off | Kalpana Sharma]
Distorted View

Mumbai-based Kalpana Sharma closes in on the role of the media in exacerbating tension between India and Pakistan.

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[2 Sep 2003 | Comments Off | Javed Jabbar]
To Ban or Not to Ban?

“Let viewers choose to see or switch-off Indian channels,” says pioneering adman, author, social activist and former minister for information and media development, Javed Jabbar.

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[3 May 2003 | Comments Off | Ghazi Salahuddin]
Tales from the War Room

Eminent journalist, Ghazi Salahuddin, talks about his experience in Geo’s ‘War Room’ and of how impossible it was to remain objective in the light of the sufferings of the Iraqi people.