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TFT CURRENT ISSUE | May 18-24, 2012 - Vol. XXIV, No. 14

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Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari takes centre stage in Naudero

By Tariq Bashir
As has become an established norm, Asif Zardari and his comrades delivered their twice yearly...
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All hail my sectarian God

By Kiran Nazish
In Pakistan a mosque is not the house of God, but the house of a sectarian God. Although Muslim...
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Make Gilgit-Baltistan the fifth province of Pakistan

By DrZaeem Zia
The people of Gilgit-Baltistan have always been unequivocalin defending their association with...
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Wages of death

By Mahmood Adeel
The Harry Walker Agency represents prestigious world leaders including former American President...
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Is parliament supreme?

By Anees Iqbal
Amidst contempt proceedings against the prime minister, the government continues to ridicule and...
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Artiste: Iqbal Bano
Track: Mano Na Visar Dhola
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Artiste: Baby Noor Jehan and Master Ghulam Haider
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Good Times

 

Editorial

 
 

Terms of re-engagement 

by Najam Sethi

In principle, the civil-military leadership of Pakistan has decided to re-engage with America by restoring the NATO pipeline and attending the Afghanistan moot in Chicago.... read more

 

News & Analysis

 
 

Analysis

Moaning about drones

by Khaled Ahmed

The parliamentary vote against the drones is protective of the elements that kill Pakistanis but serve as a policy-tool against the US in Afghanistan... read more

Report

'The best of a bad set of options'

by Ali K Chishti

Drone attacks have killed more enemies of both Pakistan and the US than ground offensives or any other strategy attempted since 9/11... read more

 

Insight

Predator games

by Wajahat S Khan

Two White Houses. Three Pentagons. Three Pakistani governments. Two Pak Army chiefs. Four ISI DGs. And thousands of attack victims in the making: Is the CIA's Drone War in Pakistan, brought to us by Pakistan?... read more

Comment

Up in the air

by Waris Husain

The legal debate on the use of drones by the US in Pakistan remains unsettled, although both sides present valid arguments... read more

 

Report

The drone debate

by Shahzad Raza

President Asif Ali Zardari told a senior US official last month that drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas were counterproductive. He said they provoked anti-America sentiments in Pakistan... read more

 

Features

 
 

Scene

Co-curricular activities

Fayes T Kantawala goes to a poetry recital and then to a music concert in Lahore... read more

History

Bipeds and Quadrupeds

Salma Mahmud finds quadrupeds far more attractive than bipeds... read more

 

View

A step to the left

France's second socialist president in 50 years might try to remember its philosophers and thinkers. By Catriona Luke... read more

Art

Trial by fire

Aasim Akhtar is transported by an exhibition of Scheherezade Alam's mystical ceramics at the National Gallery of Art in Islamabad... read more

 

Issue

The case for women

Western-trained scholars are already talking about the 'third wave' of feminism. But in Pakistan, women's sexuality is still held responsible for rape and other forms of sexual abuse. Tasneem Z Faridi looks at the 'facts and figures' cited by religious scholars in Pakistan and elsewhere to undermine the women's movement... read more

Mother's day special

All about my mother

There is no denying that the basic ingredient of motherhood is a woman's deep and unconditional love for her children. But there also can't be a typology, as it is impossible to catch... read more

 

Sports

Tough luck

Abdul Majeed Abid on the chance element that dramatically altered the outcome of the Chelsea-Barcelona football match... read more

Photo Archive

Female prisoners winding cotton on spinning wheels in Karachi Prison (1873)

by British Library collection

Photograph of three female prisoners winding cotton onto spinning wheels in the prison at Karachi, taken by Mitchie and Company in c. 1873, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections.... read more

 
 

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