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News for Thursday, 19 Jul 2012

Hate-mongers on both sides

Within hours of the announcement that Pakistani cricket team will tour India for three ODIs (one day international) and two T-20 matches in the coming December, Hindu right wing hardliner...

Whose policy is it anyway?

The recent downgrading of Pakistan’s sovereign debts and bonds to junk level Caa1, is a slap on the economic team and politicised corrupt bureaucracy that dominates our policy making corridors...

The worst form of violence

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” In the resource-rich Sindh province, this violence has raged against millions of people for generations. Disease is spreading. School...

19th July, 2012

Polio setbacks

Not a good day for the fight against polio. Not only could a planned jirga in North Waziristan, one that was supposed to lay the groundwork for the anti-polio campaign,...

Dandy does it!

Hina Khar is one year old today — as foreign minister

Thirty-five-shy Hina Rabbani Khar is one year old today — as a foreign minister....

Creeping Islamophobia

A new kind of McCarthyism

A few weeks back, the sensation-seeking representative Michele Bachmann did her best imitation of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. She...

The doomsaying media

Trapped in a 24-hour breaking news cycle

I was at dinner with successful and important friends. They were gathered, I believe, to generate humour desperately...

Sherry holds Sufi concert to show Pakistan’s ‘softer side’

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman on Tuesday night held a concert to entertain and engage her counterparts in Washington. She said that the event was held to...

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