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If ‘con’ is the antonym of ‘pro’, then constitution is the antonym of prostitution. So goes the joke. But in Sri Lanka, since the introduction of…
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Afghans, in general, approach Pakistanis with a bloated sense of the kind of entitlement that children project on their parents. They keep their bar of expectations…
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To solve a global economic unwinding, the world must learn to focus on more than one crisis at a time. Many Western leaders are behaving as…
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AS if closing secondary schools for girls was not enough, the Afghan Taliban issued another order for women to don the head-to-toe burqa when leaving their…
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Last week, a new prime minister of Sri Lanka was sworn in. Ranil Wickremesinghe, from the minority opposition United National Party, has held the post several…
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The citizens right to recall their elected representatives : After 30 days of sustained peaceful agitation led by youth and supported by thousands of ordinary citizens…
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Without a fundamental restructuring of the state, Sri Lanka will simply repeat the past mistakes that got it there. This week saw the most serious unrest…
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To prevent falling back into the same paralyzing debt cycle, it is necessary to move beyond domestic politics Sri Lanka is in the throes of an…
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PAKISTAN’S enduring political fault lines are well known. But newer ones have emerged to make the political environment more challenging if not combustible. Key among the…
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The physical contribution of Tamils in the North and the East seems to be proportionately less, in spite of the majority of them having been against…
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In the absence of Western support, their lives are in danger as they struggle to flee. Azad was working the night before Kabul fell. The 20-year-old…
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With every passing day, the demand for the resignation of the President is gathering momentum, becoming more strident, and more widespread, and echoing even beyond the…
