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Blurred Red Lines

Hammad Ghaznavi — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 08:14:20 +0000

Numerous indicators suggest, finally, the Establishment has decided taking on former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Having been ousted from the office, Khan and his party, many thought, was treated ‘politely’ by the Establishment, despite their unsheathed assaults on the Army Chief. Lest it be construed as a personal vendetta, the Chief did not react to […]

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NEPRA raises power tariff by rs4.74/unit to extort rs60 billion from consumers

Javed Mahmood — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 07:14:00 +0000

A few days ago, NEPRA had already notified another hike in the price of electricity for Karachi, increasing the rate by Rs3.75 per unit.

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PTI Govt can facilitate one million+ youngsters to start mining of cryptocurrency to generate $1 billion a year

Javed Mahmood — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:37:05 +0000

Details gathered by TTI revealed that one million crypto-miners can generate up to $1 billion in a year with average $85 million mining in a month. This amount will further increase when more and more youngsters join the cryptocurrency mining in the country.

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On a self-destructive course?

M. Ziauddin — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 09:51:00 +0000

It was purely a slapstick comedy that the PTI-led coalition government’s legal team had enacted in August 2019 while attempting to extend the services of COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa for three more years. It was touch and go, indeed. Had the other party not shown extreme composure, the one-page mantra would have gotten torn […]

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No surprises

M. Ziauddin — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:50:13 +0000

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists comprising hundreds of journalists are said to have spent 18 months trawling through the nearly 1.2 crore files to come up on October 3, 2021 with what are being called the Pandora Papers. However, the big picture is not particularly surprising. Tax evasion or avoidance via offshore “havens” is hardly a […]

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Art of possible turned into war of attrition

M. Zuauddin — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:25:22 +0000

he performance of our political parties has remained too far from the ideal since Independence. The ruling political parties have tended to behave like elected dictatorships treating the opposition as criminals and on occasions maligning them as traitors. On the other hand the opposition has tended to challenge the very legitimacy of the ruling parties […]

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Taliban in the saddle

M.Ziauddin — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:18:48 +0000

Switching roles is never easy. More so, if it is a switch from a 20-year long role of waging a resistance carried out almost with bare hands against the occupying troops of world’s sole superpower armed to teeth with the most sophisticated weapon systems to the role of running a government without money and civil […]

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Between hope and despair

M.Ziauddin — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 06:00:00 +0000

For twenty long years, American led NATO occupied Afghanistan under the guise of peace, nation-building, democracy and strategic harmony. But having miserably failed in any of these challenging endeavors, the US very sensibly decided in February 2020 to stop what was seemingly turning into a ’forever’ war and entered into peace negoti- ations with the […]

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Will he return, or won’t he?

M.Ziauddin — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:40:00 +0000

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s application for visa extension has been turned own by the United Kingdom’s Home Office, but with the right to appeal allowed against the decision. Since he has already lodged the necessary appeal at the Immigration Tribunal ‘for the time being’ his visa to stay in the UK, nevertheless, remains valid. […]

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Investigating the Pegasus Project

M.Ziauddin — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:56:00 +0000

Spying and espionage are practices as old as human history itself. The need to know the enemy’s strengths/weaknesses and the secret shadow weapons it wields has driven nations to think of ever more innovative methods. The cold war that had lasted for nearly 50 years ended with the Soviet Union disappearing from the face of […]

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Region is holding its breath

M.Ziauddin — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 06:42:00 +0000

America’s forever war has suddenly turned into a long suspension of uncertainty for countries in the neighborhood of the war torn Afghanistan. A civil war is waiting to happen inside. And outside, terror-filled air seems lurking over the region, far and wide. Almost about 85 percent of Afghanistan has already fallen to Afghan Taliban virtually […]

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It is just not cricket!

M.Ziauddin — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 10:09:39 +0000

What had happened in the National Assembly on three consecutive days mid-June (June 15-17) was, to say the least, an un-parliamentary episode. Such in-House uproars do occur not infrequently in Parliaments the world over. In a parliamentary system of governance, it is routine for the Opposition to kick up the ruckus at the slightest provocation. […]

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