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General reprieve – Mir Jamilur Rahman
It is now evident that former dictator Musharraf would not be tried for annihilating the constitution. Saudi Arabia, the US and the UK have rescued him from the clutches of the Article 6. In fact, Prime Minister Gilani’s condition of unanimous parliamentary vote to prosecute Musharraf was an admission that [...]
Evaluating the Swat test – Dr Maleeha Lodhi
The writer is a former envoy to the US and the UK, and a former editor of The News
Has the military operation in Swat to regain control of the area delivered a decisive blow to militancy in Malakand? Has it just dispersed or irreversibly weakened the Taliban there? [...]
Let us not beg anymore – Tasneem Noorani
Going by the statements of our leaders, it seems that Pakistan is begging for resumption of the so-called composite dialogue, while India is arrogantly rejecting requests and repeating the ‘do more’ advice on the Bombay incident.
In mid-July, at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Manmohan Singh, apparently having been charmed by Prime Minister [...]
Role of remittances – Dr Ashfaque H Khan
Remittances constitute one of the largest and more resilient sources of foreign exchange earnings for developing countries including Pakistan. The flow of workers’ remittances to developing countries has grown steadily over the past three decades – rising from $18 billion in 1980 to $328 billion in 2008; approximately [...]
The Kunduz carnage – Rahimullah Yusufzai
The ongoing debate in the US and other Western countries about the NATO mission in Afghanistan is all about avoiding their own soldiers’ deaths and cutting losses. The growing demand for withdrawal of American forces is primarily based on the argument that, the eight-year-old war against the Taliban being unwinnable, [...]
A criminal conspiracy —Ijaz Ul Haq
Ten months after the crash, an FBI team arrived, comprising only three members and without any assistance from an air-accident or forensic expert. The team only recorded verbal statements of a few concerned individuals without any worthwhile effort to conduct a detailed investigation
21 years ago, on August 17, a [...]
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