Anti-imperialism and the night in which all cows are black
By Ayyaz Mallick Imran Khan’s anti-American rhetoric is not anti-imperialism. It is part of Imran and, preceding him, the Pakistani
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A remarkable verdict
By Naazir Mahmood It feels good when the apex court of your country delivers a verdict that fulfills the aspirations
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Five takeaways from SC’s landmark judgment
By Safi Ghouri I’m writing this because I am getting a lot of questions regarding Thursday’s landmark judgment by the
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The new media conundrum
Social media has profoundly damaged society. If I wrote those words a decade ago, few people would have agreed, but
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Imran Khan’s undemocratic action deepens Pakistan’s political crisis
By Zahid Hussain Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government has been floundering, but the speed at which it unraveled in
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Monika Ertl: The avenger of Che Guevara
On April 1st, 1971, Bolivian army officer Colonel Roberto Quintanilla Pereira ordered the execution of Che Guevara and allegedly cut
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An open letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan
Prominent academics, citizens and opinion makers of the country have called upon the Chief Justices of Pakistan to burry the
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Constitutional frauds
By Faisal Siddiqi “Pity the nation that is led by those who laugh at the law little realising that the
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Pakistan’s Khan dilemma
By Kamran Asdar Ali This morning (April 3rd) Maureen Dowd in her column in the NYT, on the by now
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Report Card: PTI government and women’s rights
By Benazir Jatoi With the PTI good as gone from power, have Pakistan’s women fared worse or better under PTI’s
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Democracy subverted
The nation is stunned. Ahead of the vote of no-confidence, the prime minister had repeatedly hinted that he had a
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Democracy is dead: Long live the prime minister
The Deputy Speaker’s actions in the National Assembly on Sunday may have put a damper on the opposition’s attempts to
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What lies ahead?
By Huma Yusuf Two hundred and thirteen. That’s the number of times that Imran Khan referred to himself in his
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The rot at core
By Asim Sajjad Akhtar Imran Khan believed himself to be a virtual messiah who would cleanse Pakistan of ‘corruption’ and
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NA’s dissolution: AWP condemns govt’s move
The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has strongly condemned the ‘arbitrary and entirely unconstitutional’ decision by Prime Minister Imran Khan to
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