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[16 Mar 2011 | One Comment | Sujoy Dhar]
India’s Red Card

Indian communism has acquired its own indigenous identities – some that threaten the very existence of the nation.

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[5 Mar 2011 | Comments Off | Shaheen Buneri]
Reviving Swat, Stitch by Stitch

Saidu Sharif played a vital role in the spiritual growth and socio-political awakening of the people of the Himalayan region. But that seems like a long time ago.

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[28 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | Dr Khalid Zaheer]
Reconciliation, Not Intimidation

Reconciliation, dialogue and enlightenment are the need of the hour, not intimidation and coercion.

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[25 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | Fouzia Saeed]
Divided We Fall

With civil society divided into two extreme groups, is it possible to achieve a unity of purpose among the citizens of Pakistan?

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[25 Feb 2011 | 2 Comments | Khaled Ahmed]
I Could be Killed too…

What strategy should the liberals adopt when extremists are adopting intimidatory tactics to stop civil society from confronting them?

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[23 Feb 2011 | 3 Comments | Sujoy Dhar]
Corruption Inc.

One scam a day, keeps India’s arrival story at bay.

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[10 Feb 2011 | 4 Comments | Aqil Abdul Razzaq]
The Revolution of Education

After watching the revolution unfold in Tunisia firsthand, one Pakistani wonders why Pakistan has failed to achieve the real change that the people of Tunisia achieved in such a short time?

Opinion, Sports, Viewpoint »

[31 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | Malik Arshed Gilani]
The Root Cause of Corruption in Cricket

The cancer that afflicts cricket today is global not localised – and India may well be the root from where it springs.

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[14 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | Mahir Ali]
Home Truths: Wikileaks and Pakistan

As a detailed picture of how the world is run emerges from the WikiLeaks cache, the main players in the embarrassing revelations cry “foul” and go after the whistleblower Julian Assange.

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[14 Dec 2010 | Comments Off | Kayhan Feroze Qaiser]
The Other Side of the Spectrum

If the floods were an unmitigated disaster, the unstinted, overwhelming response by Pakistani citizenry was nothing short of heroism.