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Challenges that lie before Sharif

Pakistan after poll

May 21, 2013, 7:39 pm

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THE great political churning of the elections in Pakistan has ended with the clear-cut result that its people would have hoped for. Mr Nawaz Sharif has come back to power and is once more in possession of the seat of authority that he has occupied twice before. This time he has outdistanced his challengers by such a margin that the parliamentary opposition may have insufficient weight and influence, though that may be better than the fragmented, patched up government that at one stage seemed on the cards.Read More...

P’karan miscalculates launch of eelam war II

May 21, 2013, 7:11 pm

The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) was fully involved in anti-JVP operations in support of the police from July 1987 to early 1990. Except for a few infantry battalions plus support elements, its total strength was deployed to quell the second JVP inspired in...

Must we eat other animals?

May 21, 2013, 7:47 pm

Some say man, by nature, a carnivore but certainly is not an obligatory carnivore which by definition is an animal which lacks the physiology to digest vegetable matter. We have not only the ability to digest vegetable matter but also the capacity to t...