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News for Thursday, 14 Apr 2011

Mysterious mission

If the idea was to seek an end to the drone attacks, ISI DGs meeting with the CIA Chief in Langley ended up in total failure. This raises a number...

No system is born perfect

"Will Arabs be able to form real democracies?" (or some variation on that theme) is a question I am frequently asked these days. After several exchanges with those who ask...

Rime of the ancient mariner

April, said T S Eliot, was the cruellest month because it bred lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory with desire. He was right. April can be deceptive. As...

Pause to consider

Shobo NobhoBorsho or Happy New Year as they say here in Bangladesh. Strangely for someone who had never been here before two and a half years ago, it is the...

MQM to the hustings

Last week was one of double triumph of sorts for the MQM. First, it had the scalp of its nemesis, the PPPs belligerent Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza last Friday....

Police-public relations

So far, there is no department within the police which gauges the public opinion of a certain area regarding the police. The public have numerous complaints related to the police....

Housing for the poor

A housing scheme for the poor classes of the nation is badly needed keeping in view the growing population. Accommodation conditions in the country are not at appropriate levels. There...

The fate of HEC

The government has finally taken a step to dissolve the HEC and transfer its authority to the provincial governments. This includes planning, curriculum, policy making and quality control. Provincial governments,...

Gang wars

After Karachi, it is now Lahore where there has been a rising trend of gang war related violence. The recent being when two people were killed in a firing incident...

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