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Editorial
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Editorial
A mixed bag budget
Implementation would be challenging
The just-announced budget for fiscal 2007-08 is a true reflection of the economic realities on the ground topped off by reform expectations with a recipe for sustaining the GDP growth rate trend against some daunting challenges.
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Editorial
Powers of magistracy to the police?
We are opposed to the idea
We are concerned about the proposed police ordinance relating to provisions of magistracy powers for the law enforcing agency. Reportedly, the proposal has been made with a view to keeping the police free of political influence.
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Post Editorial
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Cross Talk
An apology not accepted
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
Better late than never, we have got an apology. In one fell swoop, a pillar of politics has said sorry last week. Most people say sorry for their own mistakes. He has said it for the mistakes of others.
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As I See It
A question of image
Ikram Sehgal writes from Karachi
Only a cursory browsing of Dr. Ayesha Siddique Agha's book Military Inc reveals it to be a motivated attack on the armed forces, a sophisticated embellishing of facts, intertwined with pure fabrication.
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Letter From Europe
40 years of occupation
Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam writes from Madrid
Forty years ago, on June 5, 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive war against Egypt, Syria and Jordan, which ended in a spectacular military victory for Israel.
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