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Recipe For Obscurantism

Recipe for obscurantism

The new National Education Policy released last week needs a careful and clear-headed national debate. It was intended to be a first step in the long overdue process of reforming…

For A Common Destiny

For a common destiny

The election of 1926 was the first occasion when India’s Muslim masses voted in large numbers according to the rule of separate electorates for Muslims and non-Muslims. However, in the…

Limits Of Monetary Policy

Limits of monetary policy

The Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) has released inflation numbers for the month of November 2010 and for the first five months (July-November) of the current fiscal year (2010-11). CPI-based…

The Burden Of Bans

The burden of bans

As September gasped its last, something unprecedented happened in the French town of Meaux, located about 25km from the heart of Paris. In this town, whose previous claim to renown…

Indifference To War

Indifference to war

Even confirmed democracies recognise wars as a phenomenon that upsets the schedule of events. There was no election in Britain for 10 long years (1935-45). A general election was held…

Weakness As Power

Weakness as power

This country’s record regarding its treatment of women is so shockingly abysmal that on occasion, talk of ‘women’s rights’ seems to me to be based on a somewhat mistaken premise.…

Anti-Corruption Day

Anti-Corruption Day

9th December 2009 is the seventh anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Convention against Corruption UNCAC, which Pakistan has ratified on 11th August 2007. On his election as…

Playing Both Sides?

Playing both sides?

We do get confused when it comes to understanding our war against terrorism and the goals that the establishment has set in this multifaceted venture. We have ample evidence that…

How Goldman Sachs Sees 2012

How Goldman Sachs sees 2012

Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, one of the world`s biggest commodity trading firms, has issued its predictions for 2012 as markets brace themselves for a new year slump. Goldman`s…