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Pakistan At The Hague

Pakistan at The Hague

The third Nuclear Security Summit is taking place at The Hague. This summit is the third of its kind. The nuclear security summit process was born out of President Obama’s…

An Avoidable Crisis

An avoidable crisis

Contradiction and conflict between the military on the one hand and the political government and judiciary on the other are unavoidable in this transition to a fully democratic constitutional state.…

Bhagat Singh: For The Deaf To Hear

Bhagat Singh: for the deaf to hear

Though it keeps resounding with “Inqilab Zindabad,” the film does little to explain the slogan that Bhagat had raised with unprecedented vigour. The most politically important scene in the movie,…

Stories So Ordinary

Stories so ordinary

The first time I faced a gun menacingly pointing at me it was held by a boy barely in his late teens. The inexperienced hand that clutched the pistol was…

National Hush-up

National hush-up

In his racy debut novel, The Prisoner, Omer Shahid Hamid provides an insider, fictionalised, account of the workings of the Karachi police. A few of the most engaging passages in…

Climate Change Is Serious

Climate change is serious

Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in a lab, test tube or computer programme as it does in the real world, scientists and engineers have come up with ideas…

Nightmare Scenario

Nightmare scenario

As the country’s right goes further down the path of a dialogue or appeasement with the terrorist Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), no player is looking pretty. Well, almost no player. In…

Securing Islamabad

Securing Islamabad

The recent news of the government’s decision to call up the Rangers for law and order duties in Islamabad is depressing. Rangers have in the past been called out in…

Feeding On Hope In Exile

Feeding on hope in exile

Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. Exile is a ball hurled…