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The entire country seems to be seized with the issue of whether dual nationality holders should be allowed to hold public office in Pakista...

The hue and cry over the 33-year sentence handed down to Dr Shakil Afridi , the doctor who may have aided the CIA in tracking down Osama b...

I don't watch Kamran Shahid 's show. I really don't. That's why I had to be told by another Pyala that I should probably se...

We have been frequent critics of Imran Khan the politician in the past and with very good reason. I still hold that his prescriptions for ...

So, most of our readers have probably already heard about the advertisement that the Government of Pakistan took out in the Wall Street J...

Consider the following lines from an AP  distributed article published in Dawn today: "With... government all but paralysed by scan...

I have been greatly amused by some of the speculation around the reasons for our blog being untended for the past couple of weeks. Unfortuna...

I never expected, when I wrote this small post challenging one by-the-way assertion of The Express Tribune 's publisher about ET 's...

There were some funny murmurings on Twitter about us not having commented on The Express Tribune 's one-year anniversary issue . I reall...

DISCLAIMER: This piece was written yesterday, and then languished overnight due to a PTCL outage. It contains emotion and other profanity. ...

Much can be said - and is being said - about the latest Wikileaks saga. Around the world, the two biggest issues being grappled with are th...

Run for your lives, art vultures! Picasso 's still alive, he's cloned himself into a small army, and all of them are mighty pissed a...

Isn't is quite remarkable that almost none of the major newspapers in Pakistan thought that the 'leader of the Muslim Ummah' Kin...