Opinion

Truth, stranger than fiction

By Nasira Jabeen What invites us to gather all the necessary ingredients of our composition as beings to give it each of the respective vents, is the truth of life; both of ourselves and other beings and the truth of the circumstances around us. Be it bitter or pleasant, as being the irrevocable truth, we

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Selective suicide?

“THE chief rarely expresses his personal opinion,” I vividly recall Gen Jahangir Karamat telling me over the telephone a few hours after he left his job as the chief of army staff all those years ago. My question to him was whether his proposal to set up a ‘national security council’ was a personal opinion

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Wither innocence?

By Nasira Jabeen Though contradictory to common sense, it is true and, in fact, a paradox: ‘The child is father of the man’. The traits and habits predominant in children often foreshadow their later days except in cases where the reverse happens and promising childhood entails disappointing manhood. The truth of the statement will evidently

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