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A country is supposed to feel like home, where one feels safe and secure, and most important of all, free.
However, more so than before, Pakistanis are increasingly facing rising levels of insecurity and blood pressure.
There is currently yet...
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Today marks the 55th birth anniversary of slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination in December last year left the world shocked.
How do we remember Benazir? As the young girl who was not allowed to be present at her father’s...
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Militants in Pakistan executed a woman after accusing her of being a spy for the U.S. and a prostitute, and said others would face the same fate, a government official and villagers said on Wednesday.
(Reuters)
As I have mentioned before, vigilante...
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Renowned author Ahmed Rashid says Pakistani President Musharraf has allowed the United States to open a secret CIA base in the Federally Administered Tribal Area.
It has been over a year since the legal fraternity in Pakistan has been at odds with the establishment. First, it was the Chief Justice reference, then it was the Presidential elections [which the lawyers’ community vehemently opposed], then the...
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A robber being beaten by the mob before he was burned to death.
If the current plethora of crises wasn’t enough, Pakistan is now facing a new problem altogether: mob justice. In the past week alone, there have been three instances of the...
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Today is an anti-climax to what could have been a historic day. Instead of being elated at PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif’s announcement that the pre-November 3 judiciary will be restored in Pakistan on May 12, many new questions are now being...
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Yet another suicide attack has taken place in the troubled NWFP province, putting the spotlight once again on the volatile security situation in the NWFP province of Pakistan. It also highlights the challenges that lie ahead for the newly sworn-in...
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As Pakistani politicians thrash out the details of whether to restore the pre-November 3rd judiciary in Pakistan or not, they seem to have lost sight of a more pressing issue at hand - food, one of the basic needs of all human beings, and one of the...
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He may have only been hit by a shoe, but the MQM boycott of the Sindh Assembly proceedings after ex-Chief Minister of Sindh Arbab Rahim was assaulted by an alleged PPP worker has highlighted a bigger problem: the air of national reconciliation which...
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