On February 28, the day the Indian political class sat riveted to Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha’s budget speech for two or three hours inside parliament, a dangerous game was being played elsewhere.......                                                            
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Unscrupulous human smugglers prey on the desperation of impoverished Pakistanis in search of a better life overseas, enriching themselves in the process while the dreams of many a callow youth are reduced to ashes........
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While current conventional wisdom holds that Pakistan’s ‘strategic depth’ theory rightly lies dead somewhere in Afghanistan, perhaps it is time for a serious reappraisal..........
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Zahid, 36, drags his wife Gulrukh into a room and with the help of his two brothers ties her hands with rope and starts to beat her.  Then, pulling out a razor from his pocket, he proceeds to cut off a piece of her nose.  The razor is blunt, so Gulrukh’s ordeal is prolonged.......
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As the journalists at the Karachi office of the Online newswire agency popped the video tape into a VCR on the night of February 22, they could scarcely control their excitement.  They had only just been handed the tape, after three days of negotiations on the s.........
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Moazzam Abbasi of Riwayat feels that comfort must come before style.  This time around, his cuts are very simple: straight trousers teamed with short sleeveless georgette shirts creating a modern, flowing silhouette........
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