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The symbol of uprising
JUST before 2012 closed its accounts in Egypt, another roar was recorded in the continuing saga of the country’s liberation movement. Having barely celebrated the post-dictatorship freedom, the free...
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NATIONAL: Highlights 2012
January 03 Supreme Court warned the government of action if its verdict on NRO was not implemented by January 10. 05 Taliban kill 15 FC personnel in North Waziristan. 05 ICRC official Dr. Diale...
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Highlights 2012
January 05 Wave of attacks kills 23 in Iraq. 06 Former chief of Turkish Army General Basbug held on charges of coup attempt. ** Suicide attack kills 25 in Damascus. 07 Kenyan jets kill 60 Islamist...
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EUROZONE: A continent in crisis
THE Eurozone sovereign debt crisis is no longer just about the future of Europe’s single currency or about Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, the countries hardest hit by Eurozone economic and monetary...
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Hero … but not quite!
AS the world was canvassing for putting up Malala Yusufzai as a nominee for the Noble Peace Prize, the ever-sharp cyber sleuths of Pakistan were spending hours drawing intricate diagrams and theories...
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Missing in action
AROUND three months after YouTube was officially blocked from Pakistani computer screens, it appears that the authorities are in no mood to restore access to the popular video-sharing website anytime...
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Famous, infamous: The discomfort of home
RIGHT from day one, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had been apprehensive about the Prime Minister House’s closeness to a cold cell inside the prison. That is the fate he would have preferred. Instead, he...
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Just what the doctor ordered
WHEN Sherry Rehman landed in Washington in January 2012, she joined a mixed class of notable (and not-so-notable) figures who had preceded her as Pakistan’s US envoys. Following a scandal that had...
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MIDDLE EAST: The Gotterdammerung
ONE despot fell, an ex-dictator was convicted and a reigning president was fighting to maintain his 40-year-old dynastic rule as the year drew to a close over the Middle East. The one to fall was Ali...
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MIDDLE EAST: In prison for writing about Arab Spring!
Repeat with one voice, for one faith: We are all Tunisia in the face of repressive elites. We are all Tunisia in the face of repressive elites. The Arab governments and who rules them are, without...
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