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Rain, rain go away
Experts say that in the topsy-turvy world of climate change, rainy seasons will get rainier while dry seasons will tend to become drier. Floods and droughts will become more frequent, according to...
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Keeping Pakistan’s high fertility in check
-Photo by Fayyaz AhmedWhile contraceptives do help with family planning, what really helps is preventing women from marrying very young.A survey in Pakistan revealed that women under 19 years of age at...
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The Pakistan Ideology: History of a grand concoction
Most school text books that are called ‘Pakistan Studies’ usually begin with the words, ‘Pakistan is an ideological state.’ Pakistan Studies was introduced in the national curriculum as a compulsory...
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We need to take this light to others
There is light. And there is fire. One illuminates. The other burns. One rejuvenates. The other kills. One fights darkness. The other brings it by releasing soot and smoke.It was a small group of South...
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Zubin Mehta won’t change much
-Photo by Sébastien-GrébilleEhsaas-e-Kashmir, which will see well-known composer Zubin Mehta conduct the Bavarian State Orchestra at Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar on September 7, has been billed as an...
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Bulleh Shah: Neither am I virtuous nor a sinner
The central courtyard outside the shrine of Bulleh Shah in Kasur, Punjab. -Photo by Bushra Shehzad/Hosh mediaBulleh aashiq hoyo rabb da huyi malaamat lakh Tenu kaafir kaafir aakhde tu aaho aaho...
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In Focus: Why does the US want to attack Syria?
The United States is at war once again and in its favorite battleground, the Middle East. This is despite the fact that they are facing a lot of trouble in withdrawing from Afghanistan in a respectable...
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Most wanted terrorist captured from hotel in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: In a daring raid, Saudi Special Forces arrested one of the most wanted extremist leaders, Abu Jarara Al-Yemeni, from a hotel located in one of Pakistan’s most popular vacation spots in...
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Don't you know who I am?
-Illustration by Faraz Aamer KhanWe happen to host some of the most corrupt, uneducated, bizarre and dishonest bureaucrats in the world – yet, it is amazing how they are perhaps some of the most...
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Paupernomics: When economists clash over poverty
Abject poverty has, in the past, led to feuds over food and water. The debate over poverty alleviation has, however, pitched academics of great repute against each other, thus shifting the focus from...
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Notes from interventions past
Like so many other things to fall in its erstwhile lap, the US intervention in Pakistan was a shabby one; without the clamoring drums of a possible US Security Council vote, without debates with the...
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Anything that war can do, peace can do better
“How has September returned? Why has September returned? There was a time when we had flowers in our courtyard in September. But no flowers now. And where are the gardeners? They too are buried under...
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The Delhi Golf Club in the heart of New Delhi is a superb piece of real estate. Dotted with medieval monuments, it’s a defining part of New Delhi. It’s also a hangout of the rich and the powerful – the...
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Imran and Obama: Democracy’s bitter tale of betrayal
So the 90 days have passed and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has not been able to deliver on any of its election campaign promises despite having a stable government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. And guess what,...
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Strange brews
Hip moulvisA reader sent me a link to a video titled ‘Disco Mullah.’ The video showed some members of a ritualistic Muslimi sub-sect, indulging in some kind of a highly animated trance dance.It was a...
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A pie for an eye
Shahrukh Jatoi (R) gestures while his accomplice Siraj Talpur looks on from a court lockup. -Photo by AFPThe story began in the heart of last year’s wedding season, in the lingering end of December,...
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Individually wealthy, yet collectively poor
The living standard of Pakistan’s middle class has improved considerably in the past few decades. While poverty, in its worst manifestations, has continued to affect rural and some urban areas, yet the...
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India and Pakistan cannot hate or love each other, not yet
-Illustration by Khuda Bux Abro“Between two rivers, there was a vast desert. In the middle of that desert there’s a cluster of trees and a well. Beyond that there’s nothing but sand,” said 82-year old...
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The road to power runs through prejudice
By projecting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate last week, the central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pronounced itself irrelevant.Senior...
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The Kot of Kamalia
For whom the bell tollsThe 16th day of April in 1853 is special in the Indian history. The day was a public holiday. At 3:30 pm, as the 21 guns roared together, the first train carrying Lady Falkland,...
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