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Things added in July, 2008

A nation’s hero

July 31st by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
WHAT with things rising that should not be rising and other things falling that should not be falling, combined with the lack of any form of governance, the Islamic Republic ...

Books are talking

July 31st by Farooq Qaisar.
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A failed civilian coup [English]

July 31st by Ikram Sehgal. %
Timed to go into effect before the prime minister reached the US, the bizarre government notification at nine pm on July 26, putting both the ISI and the IB under ...

Mysteries of our times

July 31st by Kamila Hyat.
Rather inappropriately, for a country known as the 'Land of the Pure', Pakistan's history – both recent and past – throws up chapter after chapter of dark mystery. Many of ...

Pacifying the Baloch

July 31st by I A Rehman.
THE relative quiet with which Balochistan’s militant nationalists had been watching political developments in the country has been broken by Brahmdakh Bugti’s strident call for a sovereign Balochistan. Before rushing ...

Buffoonery with a sinister intent?

July 30th by Shireen M Mazari.
Is the new political setup really so naïve and clumsy as we are being made to believe by absurd acts of bungling, such as those relating to the prime minister's ...

The ISI flip-flop

July 30th by Nasim Zehra.
Prior to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's departure for the US, a detailed meeting on Pakistan-US relations covering security matters was at the Prime Minister's House and it was attended ...

Obama and Pakistan

July 30th by Prof Khwaja Masud.
MR Obama’s ‘tough’ remarks about Pakistan delivered during his recent visit to Afghanistan, the ‘tone’ of the remarks, and his subsequent flip-flopping on the issue have been meticulously parsed in ...

A troubled partnership

July 30th by Rasul Baksh Rais.
Pakistan and the United States have entered into a strategic partnership for the third time, and it obviously lacks the charm and excitement of the first one. But the current ...

The remains of the day

July 29th by Anjum Niaz.
"The prime minister is here," announced an American protocol officer in a flat voice. We made a spirited dash outside. Up in the sky that sunny afternoon in June, our ...

The ISI demoted

July 29th by Ahmed Quraishi.
It's not democracy's fault. So something has to be wrong with Pakistani politicians. Consider the magnificent blunder of removing an army chief midair and ordering the pilot to land in ...