Editorial: Welcome change of guard at ISI
In a “major” reshuffle in the Pakistan Army, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Nadeem Taj has been replaced by newly promoted Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. The change of guard at the ISI will attract attention because it formally required the approval of Prime Minister Yousaf... 
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analysis: Crises and leaders —William B Milam
Historians sometimes debate whether it is the leader that finds the crisis or the crisis that finds the leader. Pakistan is rich in crises right now. Whether the restored democracy will be rich enough in leaders to prevent those crises from overwhelming the state is yet to be determined
How...
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WASHINGTON DIARY: Marriott and Ms Writ —Dr Manzur Ejaz
You mean the state cannot control honour killings, burying women alive, creating economic equity so people do not despair to commit suicide or provide better roads and monitor public transportation vehicles to minimise fatal accidents but it can stop the proliferation of extremists
Akko,...
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view: Capitalism in crisis —Brian Cloughley
Capitalism is in crisis, courtesy of greedy amoral American bookies and their evil associates around the world. Let them be the ones to be penalised. Why the blazes should anyone else suffer?
Capitalism is wonderful, or so we are told by those who prosper mightily by using other people’s...
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Opinion: Mental workout —Munir Attaullah
Should we indeed be trying to work out anything at all — let alone the methodology of how to set about that elusive search — when the right doses of jazba and vulvula (combined, as always, with eeman), will suffice to suitably prick the sides of our intent?
I have it all worked out. At...
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view: The Dragon and the Bear —Dmitry Shlapentokh
In the wake of the dismemberment of Georgia — and with Russia claiming a zone of “privileged influence” throughout the former Soviet world — China clearly views Russia as an emerging strategic threat
Second honeymoons rarely, if ever, recapture the zest of lost love. Yet ever since the...
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