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The mobile phoenix
How has China been able to transform itself?
F.S. Aijazuddin
Superpatriots
We are unicellular patriots, prone to ‘splittism’.
Poetic diplomacy
What would Vajpayee have made of our new leadership?
Inside the kitchen
Why are electoral costs expected to soar?
A fresh swarm?
This morning is the darkened dawn that Nawaz was not meant to see.
Shape of parliament
Is Western-style democracy a cold-climate plant, unable to withstand hotter climes?
Buried alive
‘Did our graves deserve such precipitate, speedy interest by officialdom?’
Copying neighbours
There’s no country that hasn’t tried to reform its civil service.
Chattering mynahs
‘Spy Chronicles’ contains 33 chapters, some surprising, many incendiary.
Your ‘new’ Pakistan
Pakistanis are forced to expire slowly every day.
Stinging rebukes
Religion is not the opiate of the masses; security is.
NON-FICTION: STAMPING POSTERITY
A sumptuous volume is not only a tribute to a legendary stamp designer, but also a visual chronicle
Summer woes
As the general elections draw near, the knuckle bones of prediction are again up in the air.
History counts
In turbulent times like this, it is wise to stay silent.
Fake elections
The public interest has become a Rubik’s Cube rotated at will.
Much maligned
Did Aurangzeb spend his last 50 years destroying Hindu temples?
Ice sculptures
The love he nurtured for Ruttie was deep, sincere and sustained.
Best left unlived
Mobs suffer from double defects: hysteria, and amnesia.
Housing in-laws
The Bhutto mausoleum is a monument to retroactive devotion.
Apron strings
For Trump, Pakistan has all the stale allure of a spent spouse.