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Will it be enough to reshuffle the deck?AT PENPOINTIt has generally been assumed that the recent Cabinet reshuffle has been designed to impose penalties on Cabinet members associated with

LAHORE

LAHORE: In this time of lockdown, the police have grown truly active. In the process, they want to bring to an end to civilization as we know it. They put up barricades which stopped the domestic help

Waiting for the summer heat puts off the crisis, not solves itAT PENPOINTThe coronavirus pandemic has created a new reality. And the most salient feature is that the world is heading for a

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Has anyone really worked out what a lockdown really means? Well, there’s social distancing, and that is tough. I wonder how barbers can do their jobs and maintain social distancing. And I’m not ta

The coronavirus is changing the worldAT PENPOINTThere appears to be more debate on whether the country should go into lockdown since Prime Minister Imran Khan ruled it out, than there was

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The coronavirus is spreading all over the world, and the epicentre is now no longer China, but Europe. Especially Italy, where the number of cases is skyrocketing, and there are new records continuall

The coronavirus tightens its gripPerhaps the most remarkable thing about the coronavirus epidemic is that it is named after its cause, rather than its symptoms. The bubonic plague was so named

Pakistan will suffer if the USA pulls out without a political settlement AT PENPOINTThe USA-Taliban peace agreement was heralded as the agreement that would lead to the end of the USA’s

LAHORE

I do not think the comedian Amanullah died because the Aurat March was going ahead. But the fact is that the Lahore and Islamabad High Courts ruled that the March could go ahead, and he gave up the gh

LAHORE

The government has legal troubles aplenty. The new Attorney General has recused himself from the Justice Qazi Faez Isa reference case on the ground that he had expressed himself on it, and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2020/03/01/city-notes-the-lawyers-and-the-law/" title="Read more" >...</a>

A price to be paid for aggressive globalisationAT PENPOINTThe saying ‘If China sneezes, the world catches cold’ is attributed to Metternich, the 19th century Austrian statesman. He wa

LAHORE

The reports of a plague of locusts in Africa made me think of the locusts in Punjab and Sindh. Is something happening to the climate? They say the African locusts got to work because of the greater av