Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur |
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31.07.2011 - COMMENT: Saggaan ra kushaada-and, ‘o’ sing ra basta
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Half-hearted denials and condemnations are not going to appease t...) details >>
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24.07.2011 - COMMENT: Aung San Suu Kyi: the beacon — I
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Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and ha...) details >>
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24.07.2011 - “COMMENT: Rolling back the tsunami
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The state, its institutions and luminaries here are complicit in ...) details >>
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03.07.2011 - COMMENT: The judge, jury and the hangman
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As long as the politicians cherish their perks more than the righ...) details >>
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03.07.2011 - COMMENT: Not crazy, courageous
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The fact that the people in Balochistan and Kurdistan are increas...) details >>
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19.06.2011 - “COMMENT: Bridging the Rubicon
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Why is it that the armed forces and the government disregard the ...) details >>
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14.06.2011 - “COMMENT: Shame on you America!
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The crimes of Israel against the Palestinians, in comparison to a...) details >>
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02.06.2011 - COMMENT: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
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In mainstream media and civil society there is, with a few except...) details >>
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02.06.2011 - COMMENT: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Abu Ghraibs do not happen in a vacuum; there is a lot that is hid...) details >>
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10.05.2011 - COMMENT: The last rites administered? Not yet!
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The jubilations, the triumphalism and the joy expressed by the US...) details >>
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17.04.2011 - COMMENT: Grand reconciliation?
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Here we have charlatans, scoundrels, rogues, racketeers, rapscall...) details >>
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10.04.2011 - COMMENT: For he, that once hath missed the right way
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Combined expenditure on health and education in 30 years is littl...) details >>
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03.04.2011 - ANALYSIS: Angry Baloch people
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Only collaborators can present eulogies and excuses in return for...) details >>
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03.04.2011 - COMMENT: When small men cast long shadows
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Brutality is the hallmark of small men with large influence. Hist...) details >>
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13.03.2011 - COMMENT: Symbiosis
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The intricate relationships within the establishment are lucidly ...) details >>
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06.03.2011 - COMMENT: Who can check them?
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No one bothers to mention the fact that the higher the economic s...) details >>
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13.02.2011 - ANALYSIS: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The use of force in conflict resolution seems to be more closely ...) details >>
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07.02.2011 - ANALYSIS: Apathy and rage
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The surviving Arab rulers and their western mentors will certainl...) details >>
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25.01.2011 - ANALYSIS: Artful Dodgers
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Our leaders profess liberalism but when one of them dares to take...) details >>
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16.01.2011 - ANALYSIS: Lest we forget
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Zakir Majeed, Abdul Hamid Jamal, Mehboob Wadhela, Faiz Mohammad M...) details >>
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09.01.2011 - ANALYSIS: Colonial prejudices
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Unfortunately, the ‘establishment’ and its supporters with their ...) details >>
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26.12.2010 - ANALYSIS: Ganging up
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States with resisting minorities have found it convenient to labe...) details >>
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22.12.2010 - ANALYSIS: A new social contract?
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The Baloch have suffered immeasurably for their rights and there ...) details >>
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12.12.2010 - ANALYSIS: Spurious symbols
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
I do not understand why pieces of apparel have to be given the st...) details >>
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05.12.2010 - ANALYSIS: Schamlosigkeit!
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The respect that the Arab princes and rulers accord to the rulers...) details >>
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28.11.2010 - ANALYSIS: A deafening silence
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The atrocities in Balochistan are just as bad as Indian atrocitie...) details >>
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24.10.2010 - ANALYSIS: An ass it was and an ass it will always be
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Unfortunately, the horizon is bleak and the situation across the ...) details >>
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17.10.2010 - ANALYSIS: The camel’s lip
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Sardar Raisani deludes himself so often that it is difficult to t...) details >>
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10.10.2010 - ANALYSIS: A forsaken place?
(Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Most people live in a make-believe world of their own in which a ...) details >>
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03.10.2010 - ANALYSIS: It’s a mad, mad, mad world
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India has an acute narcissistic personality disorder, which makes...) details >>
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26.09.2010 - ANALYSIS: Timeless tactics
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Any self-respecting government would have resigned long ago but t...) details >>
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19.09.2010 - ANALYSIS: A thoroughly bogus ‘revolution’
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A revolution is a revolution only when it is thorough, otherwise ...) details >>
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13.09.2010 - Wronged souls don’t vanish: an obituary of Zaman Khan Marri
(By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Zaman Khan Chalgari Marri, a practicing lawyer, was kidnapped ...) details >>
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05.09.2010 - ANALYSIS: A tragedy within the tragedy
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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
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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
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History is replete with instances of genocides, murders and atro...) details >>
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18.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Resenting the yoke
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Surprisingly, and unfortunately, all those confronted with nation...) details >>
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11.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Small mistakes
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The expectations are that the 18th Amendment will prove most effe...) details >>
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04.07.2010 - ANALYSIS: Whose progeny?
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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
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Zia became Zia because that inherent quality of hate and hypocris...) details >>
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13.06.2010 - ANALYSIS: Lackadaisical urgency
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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
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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
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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
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If brutal crackdowns and search operations of suspected areas had...) details >>
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18.04.2010 - ANALYSIS: Conned again
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The rural-urban divide intensifies and deepens by the passing min...) details >>
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11.04.2010 - ANALYSIS: Wilful discrimination
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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
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In just four months in 2009, senators’ foreign trips cost the exc...) details >>
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28.03.2010 - ANALYSIS: Assessing Article 370
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The question is, will Article 370 be acceptable to those who call...) details >>
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21.03.2010 - ANALYSIS: Masters, not friends
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The countries that survive on arms, hand-outs, cheap oil and aid ...) details >>
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14.03.2010 - Analysis: Phony pilots
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Nationalities are denied rights in the name of religion and state...) details >>
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07.03.2010 - ANALYSIS: Malthus’s disciples
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There are some 23,300 nuclear weapons, made and maintained at eno...) details >>
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07.03.2010 - analysis: Midas’s gold
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The powerless provincial government in Balochistan, if it has a m...) details >>
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14.02.2010 - ANALYSIS: Musings on Pakistan
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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
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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
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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
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The Khan affirmed his intention to build Balochistan as a prospe...) details >>
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10.01.2010 - ANALYSIS: Luckless Gwadar
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The people see Gwadar’s so-called development and the VVIP fanfar...) details >>
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06.01.2010 - analysis: Balochistan: Ground Zero
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Figures prove that Balochistan has perpetually suffered from negl...) details >>
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26.12.2009 - analysis: Forced or volitional?
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
The problem of missing persons and t...) details >>
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19.12.2009 - analysis: Terra nullius
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The non-local rulers not only refused to integrate with locals bu...) details >>
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12.12.2009 - A meaningful amnesty
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At present the Baloch naturally ask the question: an amnest...) details >>
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07.12.2009 - The Saindak Saga
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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
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By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
REKO Diq, an ancient volcano in Chaghi...) details >>
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13.06.2008 - Will history absolve them?
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By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
THE transgressions of the civil-military elite...) details >>
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13.05.2008 - Testing times
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IT is said that ‘common sense’ is not as commo...) details >>
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08.04.2008 - Essentially bogus
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… Each, though there was more than enough for all,...) details >>
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24.03.2008 - Is a rollback possible?
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ALL apologies whether personal, political or nat...) details >>
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03.03.2008 - Living up to the billing
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Whenever and wherever civilian governments have been o...) details >>
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08.02.2008 - "Can we be Sovereign?"
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Civilized life is well nigh impossible wit...) details >>
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27.01.2008 - "MEGA-FOLLIES"
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Politics is all about perceptio...) details >>
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16.01.2008 - Defying logic and reason
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MULLAH Naseeruddin, the sardonic sage, once decided that he co...) details >>
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01.01.2008 - Dereliction of duty
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No tragedy, be it personal, national, international or political ...) details >>
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15.11.2007 - Mirror, mirror on the wall…
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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
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The elite and the rulers here are socially, politically, economic...) details >>
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09.10.2007 - The hybrids
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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
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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
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The adage that 'Marriages are made in heavens and suffere...) details >>
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05.09.2007 - "Freebooters' Paradise"
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Sheikh...) details >>
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28.08.2007 - The velvet glove...
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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
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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
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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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