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Yes we Khan, but should we?
Imran Khan’s is not the politics of change. It is politics as usual. By Shibil Siddiqi Pakistan is not immune to the insurrectionary air of the Arab Spring or the international “Occupy” movements....
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125 Years of Aitchison College
‘…much, very much, is expected of you. I trust you will use well the opportunities here afforded of you both for your education and for the formation of your character … This is an institution from...
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A Mirror To The Punjabis
Families dream of affording a home in ‘their’ housing societies, students strive to get into ‘their’ educational institutes, patients pray to get admitted into ‘their’ hospitals, farmers struggle to...
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When there is hope…..
Hope?? A friend of mine called me yesterday. An ardent supporter of PML(N), he was extremely upset and heartbroken at the news of Javed Hashmi joining PTI. He blamed the army for its manuevers behind...
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The Hen
As I sit here at work listening to Najam Sethi on his show Aapas Ki Baat, I am reminded of a poem from one of my English classes. It lays the standard by which Pakistanis, churned through the...
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Captain’s innings: The emergence of Imran Khan
From The Economist’s Special Report on Pakistan. It appears in the current print edition. “HE’S THE MAN!” purrs the cosmopolitan young media-studies graduate at Punjab University in Lahore. A group of...
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A moment of glory: 1992 Cricket World Cup
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Let us become — proudly — bayghairat
By Pervez Hoodbhoy in Express Tribune Pakistan’s current and aspiring political leaders can rarely give a public speech these days without invoking ghairat (honour) in some shape or form. Rather than...
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Shaukat Khanum Hospital – Sanity At All Costs, Please!
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital (SKMH) is one of the jewels of Pakistan. It is a story of not just one man but a nation that joined hands to prove what was once unthinkable. Cancer treatment is out of...
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Vote for Imran?
By Hitchens I just saw the footage of Imran Khan’s terrible fall off the stage and cannot contain my anger with the people who organize these rallies without taking proper safety precautions. I’d be...
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