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| What Pakistanis think |
| Pakistan’s opinion is divided on all questions facing it |
| The International Republican Institute is located on Washington’s Eye Street; presumably it is an NGO sympathetic to the Republican cause. It commissioned an opinion survey in Pakistan; 3500 adults were interviewed in their homes and places of work i... |
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| Change indeed |
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Sir — The nasty act of a teacher-cum-councillor at the office of the district inspector of schools ... |
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| Way to go |
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Sir — I am a resident of the Bondel Gate area since November 2007. I would like to draw the attenti ... |
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| Shuttlecock |
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Sir — I live near Ruby Hospital, and work in Salt Lake. On my way to office, I have to take a bus f ... |
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| UPS AND DOWNS |
| Indian banks are normal in one respect — they pay their depositors interest rates below the central bank’s reference rates. ...|
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| OMINOUS SIGNALS |
| The fear of a violent death always hangs over the Imphal valley, thanks to an unending insurgency. But the cold-blooded killi...|
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| A party in deep peril |
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It is truly sad to see many prominent leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party so desperately depressed, and in complete denial.... | Read.. |
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| Gettysburg, Cairo and beyond |
| What was so special about Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University that it took the world by storm? It is not as though he is the first ever president of the United States of... |
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| Eloquent communities |
| Kandhamal in Orissa was torn by violence first in December 2007, and again in August 2008. Christians in the state were persecuted on grounds alleging that certain members of ... |
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| Vive la diffÉrence! |
| Identity, national or individual, depends on difference born of, and borne along by, language. When Barack Obama says in his Cairo speech that “Islam is a part of America”, he... |
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I know that two and two make four — & should be glad to prove it too if I could — though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
— LORD BYRON
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