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  How much of Venezuela’s crisis is Maduro’s fault?

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2019

  THE recognition by US House speaker Nancy Pelosi and former vice-President Joe Biden of Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan president is the latest demonstration of the consensus in Washington over the nefariousness of the Nicolás Maduro government....

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  What’s the hitch in Congress leading post-poll coalition opposite BJP?

  by Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2019

  THE ghastly news from Kashmir did cast a shadow, otherwise Lucknow has had a festive February....

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  Evil of transfers

  by AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2019

  THE vice of transfers of police officials and civil servants has for long plagued public life and administration in India....

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  How come the world is suffering from Stockholm syndrome

  by Andre Vltchek | Updated at 12:00am on February 17, 2019

  IT MAY sound incredible, but it is true: in countries that have been damaged, even totally robbed and destroyed by the west, many people are still enamoured with Europe and North America....

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  Myanmar plays unmeaning, offensive trick again

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2019

  MYANMAR has once again claimed that St Martin’s Island, a small island in the Bay of Bengal which forms the southernmost part of Bangladesh,...

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  Steps needed to stop Rohingya trafficking

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2019

  MANY Rohingyas, mostly women and children living in camps at Ukhiya and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar, are lured by traffickers to travel to Malaysia or Thailand by boat for a better living....

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  An exhausted revolutionary?

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2019

  IF WE are to look at Venezuela from Cuba, and at Venezuela together with Cuba, we should go back to December 1994, when Hugo Chávez,...

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  Luring readers

  Zubeida Mustafa | Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2019

  A DISCUSSION on libraries always leads to the chicken-and-egg debate. We have few libraries because there are no readers. Or people do not read books as there are no libraries. In Karachi, both are in inadequate numbers....