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  Remembering victims of Sri Lankan massacre

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2019

  ANOTHER dark day that has scarred the wits out of our troubled existence. The evil in our lives touched us again, with its vicious and...

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  Hazaras and the absent state

  Faizaan Qayyum and Muhammad Aman | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2019

  Non-Hazaras still refuse to share vehicles with Hazaras because doing so could make them collateral damage in the next terrorist incident. The gap between the...

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  Lanka govt’s message to people in time of tragedy

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on April 23, 2019

  THE series of bombings that took place in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday in the morning hours as the Christians prepared to celebrate this day...

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  Brexit delay: the Soviets would have understood it

  Seth Ferris | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2019

  SO THE Brexit saga has taken another twist, and become even more confusing and uncertain. All we can predict is that whatever the UK government...

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  Either way, the news is bad

  S Akbar Zaidi | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2019

  WHEN Asad Umar, the finance minister of Pakistan, returned from Washington after attending the Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank...

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  View from sanctum sanctorum

  Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2019

  THERE was a singular absence of frenzy last week in Ayodhya on the occasion of Ram Navmi. As the campaign for election 2019 rose to...

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  Deceptive IRRI strategy to get Golden Rice approved

  Farida Akhter | Updated at 12:00am on April 21, 2019

  ON MARCH 7, 2019 the director general of the International Rice Research Institute, Dr Matthew Morell visited Bangladesh Rice Research Institute....

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  Battle for Tripoli: what awaits Libya?

  Yuriy Zinin | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2019

  THE sound of machine gun fire in Tripoli after the start of Khalifa Haftar’s military campaign to ‘liberate the city’ is accompanied by a bitter...

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  US out of everywhere

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2019

  TRUMP’S December 19 announcement of troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan led to immediate opposition not only from the Right but also from liberal commentators,...

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  Politics of adjustment in Pakistan

  Khurram Husain | Updated at 12:00am on April 20, 2019

  The government is now having a difficult time managing the very beginnings of the adjustment process. Once in an IMF programme, it will have to...