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Umair Javed

Umair Javed

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Principled objection

ANYONE professing a commitment to ‘principles’ because of their occupation or their stated ideology should not find it particularly difficult to...

20.03.2023 80

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Elections, now

CRISIS is an overused term in Pakistan, but there is little else that can adequately describe the current state of affairs. A long-brewing crisis of...

06.03.2023 100

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Protecting the powerful

LAST week, PTI supporter and 30-year-old resident of Faisalabad Sikandar Zaman was sentenced to three years in prison for a tweet. His Twitter...

20.02.2023 100

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Numb masses?

ANNUAL consumer inflation reached 27.6 per cent last month, the highest level since 1975. Categories that experienced the largest increase in prices...

06.02.2023 40

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Painful for whom?

IN the past couple of weeks, politicians from several political parties have come together in a self-professed nonpartisan attempt to generate...

23.01.2023 80

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Greener pastures

A FEW weeks ago, a news report gave the figure of Pakistanis migrating abroad in 2022 for work-related purposes as 765,000. The bulk of these were in...

09.01.2023 100

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Ignoring the state?

THE notion that state institutions have a part to play in economic and social development is beyond any debate. One can take the minimalist position,...

26.12.2022 100

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Evasion politics

AMONG a litany of economic woes in Pakistan, the narrowness of the tax base and excessive burden placed on citizens through consumption and...

12.12.2022 70

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Campus and tarmac

AT the outset, I should clarify that I did not attend Quaid-e-Azam University as a student. However, as a resident of Islamabad between 2011 and 2013,...

28.11.2022 100

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One-party rule?

GIVEN recent by-election results and a groundswell of support for the PTI, questions around the fate of other parties are more relevant than ever. It...

14.11.2022 80

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A new charter

A MISTAKE that a section of the commentariat continues to make is to painstakingly separate factional/power competition from lofty, ideological...

31.10.2022 100

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Maintaining perspective on class

PAKISTAN’S middle class and its political role is a frequent subject of debate and analysis, especially on online fora. The discussion is usually...

17.10.2022 90

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Alternative futures

AASIM Sajjad Akhtar’s new book The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan is an ambitious attempt at laying out key features that are shaping and will...

03.10.2022 100

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