Posts by Rafia Zakaria
The world of secret wars
From the Newspaper
ON March 27, 2012, a hearing was held in Brussels before the Civil Liberties Committee of the European...
April 4, 2012
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The legality of sanctions
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LAST week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a list of 11 countries that had been exempted...
March 28, 2012
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The begum’s burka
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THERE are those who wear the burka for purely pragmatic reasons: to ward off the catcalls of men loafing...
March 21, 2012
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The honour problem
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ON International Women’s Day, while the world was spending time ruminating on all the evils one half...
March 14, 2012
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Our private histories
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OUR discomfort with history is well known. As a country and society, we squirm against the turbid facts...
February 29, 2012
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The women’s vote
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HAD you been to Bagh-i-Quaid on Sunday a couple of weeks ago, you would have believed that Karachi was...
February 22, 2012
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Life after America
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THE morning was bright and clear. Sunlight streamed into the windows of the prime minister’s secretariat....
February 15, 2012
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The banned outfit
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IT has been a decade of bans and lists. As the world of terror revealed itself to be more and more amorphous,...
February 8, 2012
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Public spaces, private lives
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A FEW weeks ago, a television talk-show host spawned by one of Pakistan’s many news channels ventured...
February 1, 2012
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Empowerment or xenophobia?
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IN the hysteria of near-coups, almost-wars and December weddings, you may have missed the news of Saudi...
January 25, 2012
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The beggar, thief & clerk
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IN the beginning there were beggars, one or two or four folded on sidewalks at traffic lights or lingering...
January 18, 2012
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Invention or custom?
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The basic premise was that growing urbanisation, migration and other pressures have transformed familial...
January 11, 2012
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After the revolution
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THE temperatures plummeted to sub-zero in Anchorage, Alaska, in November 2011, but that did not deter...
January 4, 2012
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A human hero
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ALMOST exactly in the middle of Freedom at Midnight a detailed history of the Partition of India, Dominique...
December 28, 2011
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More smiles than frowns in NA despite Musharraf exit row
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: It was more smiles than frowns in the National Assembly on Tuesday despite a recent...
December 21, 2011
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: It was more smiles than frowns in the National Assembly on Tuesday despite a recent...
December 21, 2011
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