EDITORIAL: Toppling again in the air?
An air of crisis has permeated the national horizon in recent days. Starting with the furore over the Kerry-Lugar bill and extending into the fracas over the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), the feeling is irresistible that moves are afoot to destabilise the democratic system, in the process... 
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COMMENT: Attack on Fort Hood <—Rafia Zakaria/b>
It is also not the first incident of soldiers killing soldiers. In May of 2009, five soldiers were shot dead by Sergeant John Russell at Camp Liberty in Baghdad; in Sept 2008 a soldier shot himself to death after killing another soldier at Fort Hood itself
On the afternoon of November...
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VIEW: The new monetary disorder —Harold James
The search for a monetary rule during the latter period had two phases: in the earliest attempt to construct a basis for stable monetary policy, the emphasis was on monetary targeting. In the second, more successful, phase, an increasing number of countries adopted either explicit or implicit inflation...
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BOOK REVIEW: Exceptions or trends? —by Saleem H Ali
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Knopf; New York
Half the Sky will be a difficult book for Pakistanis to read because it turns a mirror on some of the most detestable practices in our society. Many readers...
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COMMENT: Iran’s intentions —Deepti Choubey
Iran’s activities are inconsistent with a state that has an exclusively peaceful nuclear energy programme, looking to rebuild confidence with the international community. Instead, Iran is pretending to extend a hand, when it is in fact turning its back
Efforts to allay concerns about Iran’s...
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PURPLE PATCH: On dreams —Sir Thomas Browne
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleep is peered out with visions and fantastical objects, wherein we are confessedly deceived. The day supplieth us with truths; the night with fictions and falsehoods, which...
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