By Saeed Qureshi
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Summer’s scorching heat and acute power shortage have both peaked in Pakistan. People are frantically running helter-skelter as if the doomsday was at hand. The hapless country is awash with panicked and frenzied citizens driven out of their suffocating dwellings to protest and vent their outrage about the deepening calamity. It is unthinkable to live in a modern age without fuel and modest comforts that come from electricity.
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By D Asghar
It is almost laughable to hear many self-made ‘pundits’ and so-called ‘senior analysts’ opine on the recent conviction of the prime minister. Some are giving their statements on the supremacy of the law, and others are giving the nation lessons about standards of morality. Continue reading
By Shahid Javed Burki
Pakistan is attracting a great deal of academic and analytical interest. That is not surprising. Some have called it the most dangerous place on earth. The titles of a number of recent books on Pakistan throw light on the various aspects of a state and society in deep trouble. Continue reading
I.A Rehman
THE enemy within has been nibbling away at Pakistan’s vitals with vastly increased ferociousness and there is little evidence to suggest that the monster is being tamed.
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Anwar Parveen,
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Majority of us are worried on how to overcome our problems and make ourselves credible and strong. There are slogans and statements from the leadership and increase in sufferings for the common people. The law and order situation, price hike, economic downfall and facing the ups and downs in relationships with other countries. Continue reading
By Farhan Ahmed Shah
We as a nation are obsessed with the concept of messiahs and revolutions. The very fact that we are fixated on such things suggests how deep the rot is. It allows us to think of the misfortune that has befallen us as something which cannot be cured, and which can only be fixed by something like a revolution.
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Iqbal Jafar
WHO are the real rulers of Pakistan? Politicians? Bureaucrats? Feudals? The military? The question is not easy to answer mainly for the reason that none of the nominees for the award accepts being the ruler of Pakistan.
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Ikram Sehgal
The historian Marc Bloch defined “feudal society” as a warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage. A lord was a noble who held land, the land was called a fief. Those granted possession by the lord were called vassals, expected to give service to their lord. Wealth was derived from agriculture organised not by market forces but by customary labour services owed by serfs to landowning nobles.
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By Ahmad Rafay Alam
Water is essential for the survival of all living things. Without water, humans would die in a few days, crops would not grow and food would run short. In Pakistan, due to the increase in population, per-capital water resources estimated at the time of Partition at 5000m3/year are expected to fall below 1000m3/year in the near future. Pakistan will shortly become a water- stressed country. It is crucial, therefore, to consider the state of water quality.
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Syed Moazzam Hai
Misunderstanding writs large all over the place when it comes to talk of foreign influence over Pakistan’s good for nothing politics, ubiquitous blame mostly falls on America followed by the UK and some dozens of other countries in northern hemisphere and the Middle East.
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