China invites UN observers to restive region of Xinjiang, but with ‘conditions’
AFP China said on Monday it would welcome UN officials to the restive western region of Xinjiang with the condition
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Politics: Empire’s racketeers
Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of
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Global justice: How to think about Empire
Boston Review speaks with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term ‘postcolonialism.’ In her second novel,
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Toward changing the language of creative writing classrooms
Praise, like criticism, can make us forget what art is for By Helen Betya Rubinstein I open the creative writing courses
Read MorePakistan in 2019: Recommendations for navigating change
To mark the New Year, we asked a group of senior and emerging thought leaders and policy practitioners to list
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Over 500 child sexual abuse cases surfaced in Islamabad in 5 years
News Desk Child sexual abuse cases are on the rise in Pakistan. In Islamabad only, 300 cases of child sexual
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Welfare state: Easier said than done
WILL the PTI’s model of a welfare state serve as a catalyst to laying the foundation of an egalitarian society
Read MoreBritish PM May faces uphill battle as MPs gather for debate
Martin Farrer brings the best news from the Guardian this Monday morning. It might be the new year, but it’s
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Sonia Peak: Our attempt to tire the mountain-I
My father would tell me: don’t tire yourself, tire the mountain with your patience, writes Osman Ehtisham Anwar Mountains are
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Sonia Peak: Our attempt to tire the mountain — Part II
Omar Ehtisham Anwar “If it were not for the Divine Beauty everything that lay before my eyes would vanish in
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Federer claims record third Hopman Cup title in dramatic fashion
AFP PERTH: Roger Federer has become the most successful player in Hopman Cup history after leading Switzerland to a 2-1
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The year in patriarchy: from Kavanaugh’s fury to Serena Williams’s catsuit
Arwa Mahdawi From pop culture to politics, 2018 was a year of extraordinary firsts for women. But the past year
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Modern technology is akin to the metaphysics of Vedanta
Akhandadhi Das Courtesy Wikipedia You might think that digital technologies, often considered a product of ‘the West’, would hasten the
Read MoreTerrorism bogey
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT has been almost two decades since the ‘war on terror’ exploded into the public consciousness. Today,
Read MoreAre jokes dangerous?
Zahid Ali The new man in town told Mullah Nasrudin, “I have come out there to make an honest living.”
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