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Fatal decisions

Fatal decisions

Palestinians have lost both their lives and land.

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Lebensraum

Lebensraum

Russia, China, and the US pursue interest in Greenland for its strategic location, mineral resources, and unexplored Siberian potential.

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Turn far right

Turn far right

Today, we are again caught in the middle.

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Moaning myrtles

The ThinkFest began with stirring presentations.

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Parts of a jigsaw

Our country’s visual history is a scattered puzzle.

09.01.2025 100

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NON-FICTION: THE COURAGE TO STAND ALONE

A Maverick in Politics 1991–2004 By Mani Shankar Aiyar Juggernaut ISBN: 978-9353457679 495pp. Mani Shankar Aiyar is a human Wagah/Attari gateway, a...

05.01.2025 10

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Faith in himself

TO remember Sardar Manmohan Singh is to recall an age when principles were practised, ideals realised, and self-effacement was not a defect. Those...

02.01.2025 10

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Reparations

ONLY mankind is brutal to its own species. A passage from Mani Shankar Aiyar’s latest book A Maverick in Politics (2024) scrapes the scab of...

26.12.2024 20

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Germinating seeds

EVERY country is a continuum — even one as comparatively young as Pakistan. In 1947, Pandit Nehru cannily chose India, leaving the Quaid to grapple...

19.12.2024 10

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Shadow president

THE Greek King Croesus has been reincarnated in president-elect Donald Trump, except that in Trump’s case, every friend he touches carries a...

12.12.2024 8

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The big fish

GWADAR has been a fishing village since history began. Its location on the southern coast of modern Balochistan meant that its inhabitants had to...

05.12.2024 10

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Upward mobility

THE main title is misleading: Dear Mr Jinnah. It implies a familiarity between the book’s author Salman Faruqui and the Quaid. In fact, Faruqui was...

28.11.2024 5

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Romancing the word

COULD this space be better used than to pen a requiem to a fellow writer and columnist? Khaled Ahmed passed away last Sunday, in Lahore, just as...

21.11.2024 10

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Time to find out

HOW could 74.5 million Republican voters in the US have got it right, and the rest of the world got it wrong? Nothing in recent history can match...

14.11.2024 7

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A single life

HOW many deaths give a single life meaning? In Pakistan, even the massacre of 150 APS students and teachers in Peshawar in 2014 was not enough....

07.11.2024 6

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The third pillar

ONE would need more than 10 fingers to count the number of lawyers who have governed Pakistan since its inception. Our founder was a lawyer; our...

31.10.2024 7

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Milk the public

PERHAPS the inspiration came from milking the buffalo his father-in-law gave him. Or the hardships he endured during his training for the Olympics...

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Hope triumphant

SOMEONE in the IMF is not familiar with Dr Samuel Johnson’s witty definition of a second marriage: “a triumph of hope over experience”. The IMF and...

17.10.2024 4

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Stressed hospitality

IN Pakistan we plan with finesse, and then execute in distress. Some still recall the obstacles placed by the then chief minister Punjab in the way...

10.10.2024 9

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Modern facsimiles

MUSTAFA Kemal Atatürk was born in Turkey, in 1881. Since then, facsimiles have been spawned many times: Soekarno in Indonesia, Lt-Col Rawlings in...

03.10.2024 10

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On thin ice

PAKISTAN skates too dangerously on thin ice. Despite the blunt-bladed incompetence of its governments, it has managed to wobble and stumble for 77...

26.09.2024 10

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The other love

BUREAUCRATS wed twice — to a natural spouse, and also to an extracurricular distraction. One was reminded of this intellectual infidelity when...

19.09.2024 4

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‘Lamboo’ Nayar

NO one stood taller among the pique of Indian political columnists than Kuldip ‘Lamboo’ Nayar. Ironically, he received that nickname from the...

12.09.2024 10

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Wordsmiths

IT is flattering to be recognised in a library. Two students — one of them a police SHO anxious to become a DMG officer — asked me for advice on...

05.09.2024 10

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Pax Atlantica

FEW know that following the defeat of Hitler’s Germany in 1945, Great Britain, which had ridden to victory on America’s shoulders, made a furtive...

29.08.2024 4

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A golden buffalo

THE Summer Olympics 2024 are over. The victors have returned to savour their spoils, the vanquished to count their losses. These Olympics had...

22.08.2024 4

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The lone ranger

IT took our solitary Olympic gold medallist Arshad Nadeem to remind us of the old adage: Success has many fathers but Failure is an orphan. No...

15.08.2024 10

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Heart drops

READERS and Leonardo da Vinci are owed an apology. The tableau at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics that caused such offence was not a...

08.08.2024 30

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Raining athletes

THE opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris was like baking a soufflé in the rain. Even French expertise could not make it rise. The French,...

01.08.2024 10

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Jailhouse rockers

IF 2024 will be known as the year of seismic general elections, it will also be remembered as the one of unforgettable weddings. In India, Mumbai...

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