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Pentagon wars meant to please military industrial complex
By admin September 11, 2020 | Daily TimesAs Taliban and Kabul government negotiators undergo the compulsory week long Covid-19 induced quarantine, a couple of developments ahead of…
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Status Quo & Absence of durable closure
By admin August 14, 2020 | Daily TimesImmediately after the 2002 elections, General Pervez Musharraf called up the maverick MQM leader Altaf Hussein to request him for…
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A window of opportunity for the Intra-Afghan dialogue
By admin June 26, 2020 | The NewsSince President Trump would ideally want to be able to send the US troops back home before the November Presidential…
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Ugly Racism rears its head – yet again
By admin June 6, 2020 | Daily Times“I can’t breathe.” These final words by George Floyd, before he breathed his last, revived bitter memories of a similar…
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How Bureaucrats Embarrass Political Bosses?
By admin May 21, 2020 | Daily TimesThe constitution of Pakistan is a sacrosanct document which draws its strength from the consensus it enjoys by all and…
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Pakistan’s Sugar Mafia: Is there a long term solution?
By admin April 7, 2020 | Global Village SpaceEvery central govt. has witnessed sugar crisis in past 20 years – and billions have been paid in subsidies. PTI…
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CPEC — overzealous China, hopeless Pakistani bureaucracy
By admin December 8, 2020 | Daily TimesUnder the CPEC, China has taken care of Pakistan’s electricity requirements. Road network has expanded and continues to expand. Free Trade…
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India’s hypocritical ‘exceptionalism’, and Geopolitics
By admin October 26, 2019 | Daily TimesThe Indian media has begun peddling a new negative narrative centred on Turkey. And as usual , though unsurprisingly, they…
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Beware of looming Trump Tweet on Afghanistan!
By admin October 13, 2019 | Daily TimesFollowing release of three Indian engineers in exchange for key Taliban leaders immediately after the Islamabad trilateral contacts – US,…
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Pakistani and Chinese establishments
By admin September 12, 2019 | Daily TimesThe Communist Party of China (CPC) is China’s real establishment. It works with the military discipline but thinks the civilian…
