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  Safeguarding Lanka from recurrence of bombing

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on June 11, 2019

  SRI LANKA is still trying to emerge out of its three-decade ethnic war that ended in 2009. Unfortunately, the Easter Sunday bombings linked to the...

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  The geo-port-politics of Gwadar and Chabahar

  Salman Rafi Sheikh | Updated at 12:00am on June 10, 2019

  IN A highly surprising move, Iran’s foreign minister, on an unscheduled and unannounced visit to Pakistan on May 23, announced the proposal to link Pakistan’s...

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  A chilling sign of global Islamophobia

  Peter Oborne | Updated at 12:00am on June 10, 2019

  The spectacle of the Myanmar Nobel laureate’s meeting with Viktor Orban highlights the monstrous threat posed to Muslims around the world, writes Peter Oborne FOR...

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  Pakistan and Sino-US cold war

  Munir Akram | Updated at 12:00am on June 10, 2019

  AFTER the secretive Bilderberg meetings in Switzerland last week, Martin Wolf, the respected Financial Times economic columnist, wrote an op-ed entitled: ‘The 100 year fight...

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  The symphony of our times

  Dr Mizanur Rahman Shelley | Updated at 12:00am on June 10, 2019

  More on Ministry of Women Affairs creationThe curious relationship between the chief executive and head of the state president General Ziaur Rahman and me only...

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  Britain in crisis and going further downhill

  Brian Cloughley | Updated at 12:00am on June 10, 2019

  NO, BRITAIN’S crisis isn’t the result of Trump’s recent and highly unpopular visit to that haywire country (with Newsweek reporting that ‘only 21 per cent...

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  Language, the opening move

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 09, 2019

  LANGUAGE makes us human. During the process of natural evolution, the human brain acquired the ability to engage with the world primarily through linguistic transactions....

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  Corporate media will regret abandoning Assange

  John O’Day | Updated at 12:00am on June 09, 2019

  AFTER British police arrested Julian Assange on April 11, the first instinct of corporate journalists was to perform a line-drawing exercise. In so doing, corporate...

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  The immediate neighbourhood

  Suhasini Haidar | Updated at 12:00am on June 08, 2019

  THE government has shown its commitment to its strategy of ‘Neighbourhood First’ by inviting the leaders of neighbouring countries for the second time...

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  Own the defeat and regroup

  Jawed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on June 08, 2019

  THERE’S good chance there was big corruption in the Rafale warplanes deal. Do you have the resources to pin down the guilty and put them...