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An awkward regional situation or a comfort zone for the governmentAT PENPOINTGeneral Bajwa’s extension is not a surprise, though the duration might be, because there was the idea floated

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If you ask me, the real revelation was not that Maryam Nawaz Sharif was arrested for money laundering.That was to be expected. You don’t go around the country saying things about the p

There may be more aheadAT PENPOINTThe only people who would be made happy by the abrogation of the special status Jammu and Kashmir had in India would be property dealers. The fact is, Aza

At Penpoint Everybody lost. Except Sadiq Sanjrani The opposition tried to replace Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani, but failed to do so. However, the means used to keep him i

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It’s nice to see Right triumph, and Evil defeated. It’s not a guilty verdict in any case, but the victory of Sadiq Sanjrani. It was victory enough for him to be elected Senate chairman last year.

The first step in crushing dissent is to tame the pressFirst they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a CommunistThen they came for the SocialistsAnd

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Perhaps the most important thing Imran Khan found out about Donald Trump was that he doesn’t bite.Apparently, Trump was deeply impressed. At last a world leader who could talk at his level. The

AT PENPOINTThe meeting saw an advance made on AfghanistanThe most anticipated meeting in Washington for Pakistanis has taken place between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Imran

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Shahid Khaqan Abbassi should thank his lucky stars that NAB arrested him, and not the ANF.At worst, they could have recovered case documents from him, as opposed to the several kilos of

At Penpoint The politics of the game England managed to win the World Cup, marking the third time that a host has won, and the fourth time that it had hosted the tournament

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Well here we had Imran Khan trying to set out on a career of quoting an author when a judge’s video exploded in his face, and distracted everyone from how he had quoted Ayn Rand recently.We have

At Penpoint Drugs are in the equation now The arrest of PML-N MNA and former Punjab minister Rana Sanaullah on a heroin possession charge indicates a new departure for the