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Vajpayee and the BJPFormer Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s ashes would be ritualistically immersed in the Mandovi and Zuari rivers of Goa on Thursday, eight days after he passed

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‘Oil is always the answer’ Not that oil is ever not smack at the centre of global politics, but three recent developments serve as a crude reminder of the underground puppeteer’s clout.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/08/14/crude-weaponry/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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A little insightOn Sunday, Saudi Arabia called back its ambassador in Canada, giving his counterpart in Riyadh 24 hours to pack up his bags, following Canadian foreign ministry’s statement o

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How the Middle Kingdom reaches out in the modern day In his formal victory address prime minister in waiting Imran Khan underlined a progressive foreign policy that is being lauded in many<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/31/eying-the-chinese-wallet/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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About the immediate future… If the result of today’s polling is anything but a hung parliament, it will be one of the greatest electoral shocks in the history of Pakistani politics. Perhaps<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/24/how-hung-will-the-parliament-be/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Not much to write home about While everyone would be out to pin them on someone else, but the fact of the matter is that the next government is going to inherit<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/18/monetary-mess/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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One look at the ensemble cast Jackpot and you begin to convince yourself that there might be a few laughs in there to be had. For, almost every name in the lineup has the ability to make one laugh on

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Beyond the World Cup The FIFA World Cup that would conclude in Russia this week has been a major success story outside the football field as well. While this is true for<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/11/the-off-field-success-story-for-russia/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Of the four films that came out this Eid-ul-Fitr, Na Band Na Baraati appeared to be the underdog among the lot in the lead up. Of course, this is before the films actually came out and hindsight had b

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The bigger they are… There would obviously be biased in play, but the sentiment in Russia is that the ongoing FIFA World Cup is the most exhilarating one in recent memory. At<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/04/giant-killing-in-russia/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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When we – repeatedly, painstakingly, relentlessly, on a loop – talk about the revival of Pakistani cinema, the only thing that Wajood appears to have revived is Javed’s Sheikh movie-making count. What<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/06/30/criminal-filmmaking/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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More to follow?That the Kremlin State Palace was chosen in December as the scene to draw teams into eight groups in the ongoing FIFA World Cup was perhaps a sign for things to come. Vladimir P