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Editorial: CNG strike
CNG gas stations remained closed in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Jhelum, Attock and Chakwal districts yesterday as a result of a strike by the All Pakistan CNG Association. The one-day token strike was called to protest against the government’s decision of closure of CNG stations two days in a week under...

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COMMENT: Beirut blues —Munir Attaullah
What is it about the Mediterranean that makes the people who live along its shores so different from us subcontinentals? Why, for example, are the Italians, the French, and the Spanish, not to mention the Lebanese and the Egyptians, world leaders when it comes to creativity in music, art, literature,...

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WASHINGTON DIARY: Their rich and ours —Dr Manzur Ejaz
One can detect the difference of behavioural patterns of the rich and powerful in the western and developing world. It is likely that the members (or their spouses) of the highest legislative bodies of the US would be going to stores for grocery shopping and to take care of other chores. Many of...

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PURPLE PATCH: Acceleration —Henry Adams
Images are not arguments, rarely even lead to proof, but the mind craves them, and, of late more than ever, the keenest experimenters find twenty images better than one, especially if contradictory; since the human mind has already learned to deal in contradictions.
The image needed here is that...

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VIEW: South Korea’s growing soft power —Joseph S Nye Jr
South Korea has the resources to produce soft power, and its soft power is not prisoner to the geographical limitations that have constrained its hard power throughout its history
When the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met in Thailand last month, South Korea was an important presence....

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ZAHOOR'S CARTOON: Today's cartoon

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