EDITORIAL: SAARC summit: the same old predictable shuffle?
The opening day of the 13th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Dhaka heard speeches from the seven regional states indicating that nothing had changed since the last summit in the same capital, which no one could attend on account of India’s “security” fears. This... 
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VIEW: Work ethic in Pakistan —Syed Mansoor Hussain
In Pakistan like much of the developing world, the way to expand work is to do nothing and thus let the work pile up. Since no work gets done therefore a lot more work needs to be done
In the US, Wednesday is called a hump day. What that means is that the day falls exactly in the middle...
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VIEW: A Maulvi that mattered —Saleem H Ali
Instead of championing a progressive imam such as Maulvi Abdul Razzaq, the secular elite of Pakistan remained quiet. Instead of being applauded, the imam was accused by the village police of being a terrorist — to discredit his support for Mukhtar Mai
Last week in New York’s Lincoln Centre,...
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VIEW: A profitable political statement —V Krishna Ananth
It is strange that sections of Indian media are refusing to view Natwar Singh as they would any other individual guilty of wrongdoing. Instead, they are bent upon describing him as a victim of a US-inspired conspiracy. The Left parties are also supporting him
According to the Volcker Committee’s...
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KARACHI DIARY: Jet-lagged and confused —Irfan Husain
According to dark rumours, some survivors are not burying their dead, or getting their wounds treated because they are afraid they might not be entitled to government compensation without physical evidence
I have seldom missed a newspaper deadline, and my only excuse for not appearing...
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VIEW: Is Azerbaijan next? —Alexander Muzykantsky
The West appears to be hedging its bets by sustaining contacts with the opposition. If it decides that the government has become unreliable, television shots of demonstrators’ weekly clashes with the Baku police, Ilham’s refusal to hold televised debates, and the confiscation of all orange objects...
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