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Beyond the disease – Mahir Ali
STOP the world — I want to get off’ was a mildly amusing meme some decades ago. In recent weeks, the world has indeed...
Infected by us By Fahd Husain
STATUS QUO has gone viral.
Pakistan is slowly and grudgingly waking up to a pandemic. Soon we shall be told by the governments to do...
The AG controversy By Abdul Moiz Jaferii
WHEN a judge of Pakistan’s superior courts is considered mentally or physically incapable of performing the duties of office, or may be guilty of...
India burning By Fahd Husain
“Illuminated by the bright, shining red of blood is an India with a blind right eye: gazing terrified at the carnage all around —...
When China sneezes – Mahir Ali
BEYOND the inevitably immediate concerns about the steadily rising death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus infection and the prospects of a worldwide pandemic, crucial...
Vanishing consent By Fahd Husain
ASK yourself this: do you genuinely and deeply believe in the concept of freedom of speech and the press? Ask yourself this too: do...
Curse of the big office. By Fahd Husain
GLOOM is also an infectious virus.
People in Pakistan are talking about the PTI’s policy prescriptions and related problems; they are talking about the PTI’s...
Never again? – Mahir Ali
IT will be 75 years ago next Monday that soldiers from the Red Army entered Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous of the extermination camps...
Ten reasons why….. By Fahd Husain
EXTENSION done. What’s the lay of the land? Here goes:
1- The empire/umpire always strikes back. The temporary hitch in the system has been corrected...
Republic of fear By Fahd Husain
SMELL the dread. Inhale the disquietude. Absorb the angst. Something rumbles on the horizon.
Welcome to the republic of fear.
The Judge demands a corpse to...