October 8, 2005
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Rationale of the seniority principle
A FEW weeks back Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhary administered oath to three permanent and two ad-hoc judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The nominations to the apex court went largely unnoticed and attracted little public comment.... 
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Can Algeria put its tragic past behind?
LAST week’s national referendum in Algeria received a ‘yes’ vote as the government had desired. According to official claims, the Algerian people voted in favour of amnesty to those who slaughtered...
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Rehmat Ali: the reburial issue
THE division of the south Asian subcontinent into different federating units has an old history. It was a British MP, John Bright, who immediately after the mutiny of 1857 suggested that...
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Credibility factor in HDI ranking
THE article appearing in this space on October 1 by Feyza Bhatti and Faisal Bari discusses in detail how Pakistan has made a slight jump in Human Development Index rankings this year....
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