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Breaking the chain of corruption: Part – II

The late prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, largely eliminated corruption from Singapore and thereby transformed it from a third-world to a...

05.04.2024 60

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Breaking the chain of corruption — Part – I

Anti-corruption measures can only have cumulative success if they are part and parcel of good governance. In the absence of good governance,...

04.04.2024 100

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Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – III )

In Chinese thinking the strategic discourse is more holistic and integrated than segmented just as is the case with its medical, political and...

11.03.2024 30

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Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – II )

In a talk at the National Defence College, Kissinger likened strategy to a chess game in which each player seeks to control the maximum number of...

10.03.2024 50

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Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – I )

For Pakistanis in their present condition, it would be irrelevant to discuss strategic leadership and statecraft without reference to the realities...

09.03.2024 50

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Stabilizing the economy

[This is based on a talk by Mueen Afzal, former secretary of general finance, a prominent philanthropist and chairman of several national...

25.02.2024 40

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The people have stood up

Haal-e-chaman par talkh nawai/ Murgh-e-chaman, kuch iss se ziyada (A bitter song on how the garden is/ Oh nightingale, say more than this!) – Faiz...

11.02.2024 20

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A long and graceful life

These were originally remarks at a recent memorial meeting: a galaxy of Pakistani luminaries have paid truly exceptional tributes to the late Sartaj...

22.01.2024 30

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Facts, questions & solutions

‘Asbahna wa asbaha-lmulku lillahi rabb-il’alameen’ (We awake and the country awakes to Allah the Lord of the Universe) — Hadith Sharif ...

22.12.2023 100

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Zakaria, brilliant, wrong

IN a seminal article in the latest issue of the US establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, under the caption ‘The Self-Doubting Superpower’,...

16.12.2023 100

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India’s Muslim precariat

“Jaag mere Punjab ke Pakistan chala” — Habib Jalib RECENTLY, Prof Christophe Jaffrelot, an authority on India’s Muslims, spoke on ‘The...

08.12.2023 100

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Sachs on Pakistan’s economy

‘Koi khwaab na ho to bataen kya?’ (When no dreams stay what can one say?) — Athar Nafees (sung by Farida Khanum) ON Nov 21, Dr Jeffrey Sachs,...

25.11.2023 100

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Jabalia

Who is Hamas? Any child who hasn’t run away THE Jabalia Camp massacre changes everything. We are dealing with a criminally insane entity called...

04.11.2023 100

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‘Ana Dammi Filasteeni’

Palestinians breed and bleed and advertise their misery — Ruth Wisse, Harvard Professor SUPPOSE an enemy country were, God forbid, to besiege...

20.10.2023 100

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Never despair

La Taqnatu min-Rahmatullah — (Do not despair of Allah’s Mercy) — Al-Quran EXPLANATIONS of human behaviour — whether individual, group or...

06.10.2023 100

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A patriot turns 100

“In the end, no matter what one does, a great army in the middle of a democratic nation will always be a great peril, and the most effective means...

29.09.2023 200

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