Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur |
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 05.09.2010 - ANALYSIS: A tragedy within the tragedy (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The adverse consequences of frequent natural disasters compounded...) details >>
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 29.08.2010 - ANALYSIS: Indecent proposal (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The MQM has lost all moral ground, if it ever had any, to continu...) details >>
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 22.08.2010 - ANALYSIS: Homeless, hapless and helpless (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Sindhi politicians have failed the people of Sindh and the presen...) details >>
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 15.08.2010 - ANALYSIS: Old saga: dangerous new dimensions (Sunday, August 15, 2010
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Settlers’ deaths in Balochistan evoke wi...) details >>
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 08.08.2010 - ANALYSIS: Sarmad lives on (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Sarmad lives on as the epitome of an ind...) details >>
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 01.08.2010 - ANALYSIS: Dara Shikoh: still persecuted (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
History’s false and biased version has fully been exploited for t...) details >>
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 25.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Penchant for self-destruction (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
History is replete with instances of genocides, murders and atro...) details >>
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 18.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Resenting the yoke (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Surprisingly, and unfortunately, all those confronted with nation...) details >>
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 11.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Small mistakes (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The expectations are that the 18th Amendment will prove most effe...) details >>
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 04.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Whose progeny? (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Envisaging the emergence of a new Islamic identity from the ruins...) details >>
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 28.06.2010 - ANALYSIS: Whose progeny? — II (By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Objectives Resolution was aimed at creating a new ethos fo...) details >>
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 20.06.2010 - ANALYSIS "WHOSE PROGENY?" PART -I (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Zia became Zia because that inherent quality of hate and hypocris...) details >>
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 13.06.2010 - ANALYSIS: Lackadaisical urgency (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The claims that the army’s replacement by the FC has eased the ‘s...) details >>
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 06.06.2010 - ANALYSIS: Survival of the fittest (By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Societies that reward fraudsters, cheats and bullies are prede...) details >>
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 23.05.2010 - ANALYSIS: The charge of the Chainsaw Brigade (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The present Sindh government under the slogan of serving the peop...) details >>
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 09.05.2010 - ANALYSIS: The bridge of indignities (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Leaders, both good and bad, have a direct relationship to the lev...) details >>
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 02.05.2010 - ANALYSIS: Two wrongs never make a right (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The state and media in Pakistan seem to suffer from the ‘Ga...) details >>
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 25.04.2010 - ANALYSIS: Winning the Battle of Algiers (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
If brutal crackdowns and search operations of suspected areas had...) details >>
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 18.04.2010 - ANALYSIS: Conned again (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The rural-urban divide intensifies and deepens by the passing min...) details >>
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 11.04.2010 - ANALYSIS: Wilful discrimination (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The present WAPDA policy unjustly deprives its teaching staff of...) details >>
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 04.04.2010 - ANALYSIS: Qu’ils mangent de la brioche (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
In just four months in 2009, senators’ foreign trips cost the exc...) details >>
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 28.03.2010 - ANALYSIS: Assessing Article 370 (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The question is, will Article 370 be acceptable to those who call...) details >>
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 21.03.2010 - ANALYSIS: Masters, not friends (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The countries that survive on arms, hand-outs, cheap oil and aid ...) details >>
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 14.03.2010 - Analysis: Phony pilots (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Nationalities are denied rights in the name of religion and state...) details >>
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 07.03.2010 - ANALYSIS: Malthus’s disciples (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
There are some 23,300 nuclear weapons, made and maintained at eno...) details >>
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 07.03.2010 - analysis: Midas’s gold (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The powerless provincial government in Balochistan, if it has a m...) details >>
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 14.02.2010 - ANALYSIS: Musings on Pakistan (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Here mobsters like Tipu Truckanwala and Abdul Rehman Dakait have ...) details >>
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 07.02.2010 - ANALYSIS: Buy land — they’re not making it anymore (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Instead of using the begged $ 2 billion to create another repress...) details >>
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 31.01.2010 - ANALYSIS: ANTI-BALOCH CLIQUE?" PART II (BY Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The rulers should understand that lip service does not soothe ...) details >>
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 24.01.2010 - ANALYSIS: Parallel government (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The problem with the FC does not merely lie in its ethnic makeup,...) details >>
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 16.01.2010 - analysis: Anti-Baloch clique? I (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Khan affirmed his intention to build Balochistan as a prospe...) details >>
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 10.01.2010 - ANALYSIS: Luckless Gwadar (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The people see Gwadar’s so-called development and the VVIP fanfar...) details >>
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 06.01.2010 - analysis: Balochistan: Ground Zero (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Figures prove that Balochistan has perpetually suffered from negl...) details >>
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 26.12.2009 - analysis: Forced or volitional? (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Saturday, December 26, 2009
The problem of missing persons and t...) details >>
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 19.12.2009 - analysis: Terra nullius (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The non-local rulers not only refused to integrate with locals bu...) details >>
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 12.12.2009 - A meaningful amnesty ( Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
At present the Baloch naturally ask the question: an amnest...) details >>
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 07.12.2009 - The Saindak Saga (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Rs 18 billion (US $ 297 million) Saindak copper-gold project ...) details >>
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 07.10.2009 - Will TRC work? ( By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur Wednesday, 07 Oct, 2009
TIME and again, well-me...) details >>
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 09.09.2009 - DEDICATED TO ALL BALOCH WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF EXTRA-JUDICIAL MURDERS AND THEIR RELATIVES (By Mir Mohammad Ali TalpurSept 1, 2009The brutally blatant murders of the Baloch National ...) details >>
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 19.07.2009 - PROUD TO BE A PAKISTANI! (by Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur Note: I remembered a couple of years back I wrote a piece for '...) details >>
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 24.06.2009 - MEMORIES OF ANOTHER DAY (by Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Baloch resistance to the unwa...) details >>
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 31.01.2009 - Addiction to War (By Mir Mohammad Ali TalpurTando Mir Mahmood Hyderabad Sindh, Pakistan
This year'...) details >>
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 30.09.2008 - Requiem for Reko Diq (
By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
REKO Diq, an ancient volcano in Chaghi...) details >>
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 13.06.2008 - Will history absolve them? (
By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
THE transgressions of the civil-military elite...) details >>
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 13.05.2008 - Testing times (
By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
IT is said that ‘common sense’ is not as commo...) details >>
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 08.04.2008 - Essentially bogus ( By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
… Each, though there was more than enough for all,...) details >>
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 24.03.2008 - Is a rollback possible? ( By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
ALL apologies whether personal, political or nat...) details >>
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 03.03.2008 - Living up to the billing (By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Whenever and wherever civilian governments have been o...) details >>
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 08.02.2008 - "Can we be Sovereign?" (By: Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Civilized life is well nigh impossible wit...) details >>
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 27.01.2008 - "MEGA-FOLLIES" (By: Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Politics is all about perceptio...) details >>
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 16.01.2008 - Defying logic and reason (By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
MULLAH Naseeruddin, the sardonic sage, once decided that he co...) details >>
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 01.01.2008 - Dereliction of duty (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
No tragedy, be it personal, national, international or political ...) details >>
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 15.11.2007 - Mirror, mirror on the wall… (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Sheikh Saadi Shirazi in a hikayat in Gulistan says, “A dervish wi...) details >>
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 30.10.2007 - Expecting berries from acacia trees (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The elite and the rulers here are socially, politically, economic...) details >>
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 09.10.2007 - The hybrids (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
This blighted place has been run like a personal fiefdom by delus...) details >>
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 02.10.2007 - The shape of things to come (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The General and his band of supporters, or is it brigands, who ha...) details >>
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 20.09.2007 - Abdication of responsibility (
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The state and the government here have become so obsess...) details >>
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 15.09.2007 - Watta-satta: a soap opera (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The adage that 'Marriages are made in heavens and suffere...) details >>
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 05.09.2007 - "Freebooters' Paradise" ( Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Sheikh...) details >>
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 28.08.2007 - The velvet glove... (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
In my life I have often come across warped, self-serving politica...) details >>
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 14.08.2007 - Every thirty seconds a child? (
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The mindless and at times promiscuous rush for weapons an...) details >>
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 07.08.2007 - Curzon?s curse (Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
August 7, 2007
A hundred years ago Lord Curzon bequeathed this r...) details >>
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 31.07.2007 - Grisly foundations (Grisly foundations
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July 31.2007
The US Secretary of Defence Rob...) details >>
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 19.07.2007 - The lost years (The lost years
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19.07.2007
Indisputably a very high level of exp...) details >>
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 09.07.2007 - Violence in Balochistan (Violence in Balochistan
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09.07.2007
The specter of violence loom...) details >>
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 26.06.2007 - The Kaisers of today (
The Kaisers of today
26/06/2007
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I always wonder at the fact ...) details >>
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 19.06.2007 - Plebeian states (Plebeian states
19/06/2007
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The people of the world are segregat...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Sheikh Saadi on autocracy (Sheikh Saadi on autocracy
12/06/2007
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There are lessons in histo...) details >>
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 07.06.2007 - The armed forces are in the barracks (The armed forces are in the barracks
07/06/2007
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The General-Pre...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Serious repercussions (Serious repercussions
22/06/2007
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In these wonderfully free time...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Human rights (Human rights
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Dear readers, kindly take a moment to ponde...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - The human bomb enigma (The human bomb enigma
22/05/2007
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Suicidal attacks have played a...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?I am responsible? (?I am responsible?
18/05/2007
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The tragic events of cold-blooded...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Balochistan is up for grabs (Balochistan is up for grabs
10/05/2007
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Balochistan is on the au...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - The Chernobyl syndrome (The Chernobyl syndrome
01/05/2007
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Dictatorial and unrepresentat...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - The colonial armies (The colonial armies
24/04/2007
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The British occupation and rule ...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - The victims of cultural genocide (The victims of cultural genocide
17/04/2007
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In a world where th...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - The 72 million rupee question (
The 72 million rupee question
10/04/2007
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The 72 million rupee...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Reko Dik (Reko Dik
March 3.04.2007
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The resources of Balochistan are being...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - This land is my land (This land is my land
27/03/2007
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Josef Stalin, being briefed abo...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Balochistan: the reality ? IV (Balochistan: the reality ? IV
27/02/2007
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Thanks to the arrogant...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Balochistan: the reality ? III (Balochistan: the reality ? III
20/02/2007
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A sense of desperatio...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Balochistan: the reality ? II (Balochistan: the reality ? II
13/02/2007
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Injustices by the stat...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Balochistan: the reality ? I (Balochistan: the reality ? I
06/02/2007
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Balochistan with a geog...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?The mother of all solutions? (?The mother of all solutions?
February 2007
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All my life I have ...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Militarization of Balochistan (Militarization of Balochistan
01/02/2007
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The Baloch people cann...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - We are facing a credible threat (We are facing a credible threat
23/01/2007
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No state, individual...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?No regrets? ( ?No regrets?
28/12/2006
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The subcontinent has a long histo...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Silence is golden (Silence is golden
06/11/2006
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Though a lot has been said and wri...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - In the line of ire (In the line of ire
09/10/2006
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When an ordinary individual becom...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?Head butt? (?Head butt?
26/09/2006
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The response of the Muslim world leaders...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?Of the? By the? For the?? ( ?Of the? By the? For the??
19/09/2006
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?A people living un...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?Fixing up? (?Fixing up?
12/08/2006
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Force has been called ?the midwife of hi...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - The lukewarm charter (The lukewarm charter
12/07/2006
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Balanced civil-military relatio...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Proud to be a Pakistani! (Proud to be a Pakistani!
19/04/2006
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The worsening of the situat...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Who calls the shots here? ? III (Who calls the shots here? ? III
28/03/2006
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It is the corrupt an...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Who calls the shots here? ? II (Who calls the shots here? ? II
21/03/2006
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The British had fully...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Who calls the shots here? ? I (Who calls the shots here? ? I
14/03/2006
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No entity, group, nati...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Tribal system to be strengthened (Tribal system to be strengthened
03/05/2006
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A headline in a nat...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Collateral damage (Collateral damage
29/01/2006
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The news of the death of 12 Bugti ...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - David and Goliath (David and Goliath
08/01/2006
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The title of this piece risks invi...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - ?Oh, I see? ( 18/12/2005
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Renaissance is a much cherished and consequentl...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Social meltdown (Social meltdown
08/12/2005
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Dayaks, the head-hunting tribe of Bo...) details >>
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 30.11.1999 - Violence in Balochistan (Violence in Balochistan
22/11/2005
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The specter of violence loom...) details >>
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 13.08.2019 - THE GULF OF KOHLU INCIDENT (THE GULF OF KOHLU INCIDENT
August.2005
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On August 4th 1964 two U...) details >>
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