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Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Faisal Kapadia - May. 24 (Opinion) - On May 2, 2011, the US SEALs carried out the now nefarious mission to kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad without knowledge of our armed forces or government until what seems like the last moment. We as a nation woke up in an outrage. We were upset because our territorial sovereignty had been challenged, we [...]

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British boy wears skirt to school in protest

Wed, 11 May 2011 10:57:12 -0700

Dawn - By Afp - May. 11 - LONDON: A 12-year-old British boy wore a knee-length skirt to school in protest against a school uniform policy banning boys from donning shorts during warm weather, according to a report Wednesday. Chris Whitehead also addressed more than 1,350 pupils at morning assembly wearing the black skirt, which boys are permitted to wear due to a [...]

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Fear and silence

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Mohsin Hamid - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - To understand what the persecution of Ahmadis achieves, we have to see how it works. Its first step is to say that Ahmadis are non-Muslims. And its second is to say that Ahmadis are not just non-Muslims, but apostates: non-Muslims who claim to be Muslims. These two steps are easy to take: any individual Pakistani citizen has the right to believe whatever they want about Ahmadis and their faith.

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President Zardari under pressure after NRO ruling

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Dawn - Dec. 17 (News Report) - President Asif Ali Zardari faced fresh calls to step down Thursday after the Supreme Court struck down an amnesty that had protected the increasingly unpopular leader and several of his political allies from corruption charges. The decision late Wednesday sharpened political tensions in Pakistan just as the United States and its other Western allies want it to unite and fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants based along the Afghan border.

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Blackwater: Widening the rift

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Sana Saleem - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Conspiracy theories have always had high currency in our part of the world and ritual cynicism towards America is quite usual. Recent reports claiming the presence of CIA’s contractual army – Blackwater – in Pakistan have bolstered concerns within the Pakistani public about US involvement in this country’s affairs. It’s high time, though, that the government came clean with the public about the extent of US involvement in this country’s security affairs.

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The Taliban and music

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Zubeida Mustafa - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - In her latest book, The Case for God, Karen Armstrong describes music as ‘the limit of reason.’ She finds it inseparable from religious expression when religion is at ‘its best.’ We do not get the best demonstration of this connection in the Taliban brand of Islam. The faith practised by the Sufis, however, shows an intrinsic link between the two.

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In the name of religion

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Yaqoob Khan Bangash - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - This month we will be commemorating for the 62nd year running the carnage which engulfed the subcontinent in the name of religion — violence in the name of religion refuses to dissipate.

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Negligence or complicity?

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Naveen Naqvi - Aug. 04 (Opinion) - The lesson is clear; the blasphemy law not only violates fundamental principles of justice, it distorts law into an instrument of sectarian witch-hunts and also of collective and individual reprisal. Its victims have ranged from an innocent Hafiz who was burned to death by a frenzied mob, to Pakistan’s most renowned social engineer Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan who suffered years of harassment, death threats and litigation for unsubstantiated allegations of blasphemy

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Today, I too am a minority

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Nadeem F. Paracha - Aug. 04 (Opinion) - why is the Pakistani media referring to the recent attack by Muslims on the Christian community in the Gojra area as ‘communal riots?’ They were not riots, but an attack. An assault by an arrogant majority on a low-lying minority.

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Pakistani Christians shut schools to mourn Gojra killings

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Aug. 03 (News Report) - Pakistani Christians have closed their schools and colleges across the country for three days starting Monday to mourn and protest the killings of seven of their religious brethren, leaders of the minority community said.

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Supreme Court strikes down Nov 3 emergency

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Nasir Iqbal - Aug. 01 (News Report) - In what has been billed as a verdict that may change the course of the country’s political and judicial history, the Supreme Court on Friday denounced successive military takeovers over the past four decades and their endorsement by the superior judiciary and then went ahead to declare Gen Pervez Musharraf’s Emergency Order of Nov 3, 2007, and most of the actions taken under it, including the appointment of over 100 superior court judges, as illegal and unconstitutional.

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Funds for the Taliban

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Jul. 30 (Editorial) - US special envoy Richard Holbrooke’s statement in Brussels that the Taliban receive more money from their sympathisers in the Gulf countries than they obtain from the illegal narcotics trade in Afghanistan deserves to be taken note of. As we wrote in in our issue of June 29, 'misguided concepts of philanthropy' contribute in no small measure to the Taliban’s coffers.

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‘US wants IDPs settled before action in Waziristan’

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Although Mr Holbrooke said it could be beneficial to have simultaneous offensives -- the US Marines on the Afghan side and the Pakistani army in Fata -- the greater concern is unfinished business elsewhere. ‘Why would I push them to start an offensive when they have two million people they have to protect first?’ the US envoy said.

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Swat — it’s too early to declare victory

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Zahid Hussain - Jul. 27 (Special Report) - Police and civilian administration personnel have started returning to their posts and electricity supply has been restored. The life is slowly returning to normal in the biggest town of the Swat Valley which was a centre of fighting until a few weeks ago. But the situation is far from stable. People are still wary of the situation.

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Three Marriott attack terrorists arrested

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Munawer Azeem - Jul. 27 (News Report) - Security agencies arrested on Sunday three terrorists believed to be of the Qari Saifullah group for their alleged involvement in last year’s blast in Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel.

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A cobweb of myths

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Dr Tariq Rahman - May. 16 (News Analysis) - Nato forces should withdraw from Afghanistan as a matter of principle but this will not end Talibanisation. Indeed, if Nato forces withdraw, parts of Afghanistan will be ruled by the Taliban once again. If Pakistan sides with them it will be isolated by the rest of the world. If it does not, it will have a hostile neighbour. In either case the Taliban worldview will be strengthened in Pakistan.

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Talibanisation and identity crisis

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Huma Yusuf - May. 11 (Opinion) - There has been a flurry of meetings, lectures, candlelit vigils, protest marches and letter-writing campaigns in all major cities. And yet, read through the discussions on local blogs or peruse letters to the editor in various newspapers, and the sense that Pakistanis are doing nothing about the crisis prevails.

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Outraged parliament wants border raids repulsed

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Raja Asghar - Sep. 05 (News Report) - Outraged by the deadly first known ground assault into Pakistanï¿½s tribal belt by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, both houses of parliament on Thursday unanimously asked the government to take measures to ï¿½repel such attacks in the future with full forceï¿½.

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Caravans set off for lawyers' long march

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - By Nasir Iqbal - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Lawyers launched their long march on Monday, with thousands of them proceeding in caravans from Karachi and Quetta on way to Sukkur from where they will move onwards to Multan and Islamabad. They left in vehicles, chanting slogans against President Pervez Musharraf.

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