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Ehsan Azari questions the value of the US' unbalanced relationship with Pakistan.
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News and Features
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 By Nina de la Preugne
Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition has won a large majority in the country’s parliamentary elections – but fell short of the two-thirds majority President Mahinda Rajapaksa was hoping for.
Results released yesterday showed the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), Rajapaksa’s coalition, obtained 59 percent of votes across the country, securing 117 seats so far.
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 By David Cronin
Those posters still haunt me. ‘Wanted for Murder’, they proclaimed in heavy type above a stony-faced Margaret Thatcher. It was 1981; I was 10 years old. Young men were starving themselves to death 70 miles away from my sleepy hometown in north Dublin. There were black flags everywhere; I was fascinated by how they would proliferate but also a little frightened.
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Business and Economy
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Tinkering with the regulation of banks is like shuffling deck chairs on the titanic. The entire system is a fraud, writes Eamonn Dwyer.
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Arts
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 By Stephanie King
I don’t drive, but if I did, it would be purely so I could motor around with the windows down on the hottest, stickiest day of the year, the bass ramped up to its maximum, pumping out this powerhouse of a – yes, I’m going to use it – choon.
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Politics and Policy
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 By Pinaki Roy
Bangladesh is to put alleged war criminals on trial nearly 40 years on from its liberation war that saw three million Bengalis brutally killed and 300,000 women raped.
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Society
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By Asim Siddiqui
Studies show that poor educational attainment and professional underachievement are prevalent amongst young British Muslims. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent development and social research charity, found that British Muslims are less upwardly mobile than their Hindu, Christian and Jewish counterparts. This trend appears consistent across Europe, where Muslims are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than non-Muslims.
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By Mohsin Hamid
Ever since returning to live in Pakistan a few months ago, I’ve been struck by the pervasive negativity of views here about our country. Whether in conversation, on television, or in the newspaper, what I hear and read often tends to boil down to the same message: our country is going down the drain.
But I’m not convinced that it is.
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News and Features
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 By Nina de la Preugne
Sri Lankans went to the polls yesterday to elect a new parliament following what members of the opposition called one of the worst campaigns in the country’s democratic history.
Polling stations opened at 7am, but the turnout appears to have been lower than expected due to a general feeling that the governing party will win with an overwhelming majority.
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 By Nina de la Preugne
A year after the defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the end of the country’s 26-year civil war, Sri Lanka once again finds itself at a crossroads. The forthcoming parliamentary elections will set in stone the future of the country.
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 By Amber Rahim Shamsi
Now the Shiv Sena has a problem with Indian tennilebrity Sania Mirza marrying Pakistan’s cricket captain Shoaib Malik. To quote the right-wing Hindu party’s octogenarian chief Bal Thackeray: “Had [Sania’s] heart been Indian, it wouldn’t have beaten for a Pakistani. If she wished to play for India, she should have chosen an Indian life partner.” No surprises there.
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Politics
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Advocate Khandokar Mahbub was the chief prosecutor of the first war crimes trials in Bangladesh, which began in 1973 but were halted two years later. In an exclusive interview, he told Pinaki Roy that the new tribunal could struggle to find the evidence it needs to secure prosecutions 40 years on.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
When I first saw the video for Gabriella Cilmi’s On a Mission, I thought it would be funny (ha) to write a post on this embarrassing excuse for a pop song. This disgustingly infectious track has now polluted my head for one long, tawdry week and so it is with immense relief that I expel this track from my iPod never to be heard again.
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