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• Pakistan bombings: militancy is a many-headed beast here

  

  11 Jan 2013: Samira Shackle: Thursday's bombings, carried out by various groups, show how hard it is to fight extremism when there is no single enemy

• Drones are fool's gold: they prolong wars we can't win

  

  10 Jan 2013: Simon Jenkins: New appointments in the White House hail an era of hands-free warfare. Yet these weapons induce not defeat, but retaliation

• New director John Brennan must kill the CIA's drone assassination policy

  

  8 Jan 2013:

  Naureen Shah: Brennan's nomination is the time to restore the CIA to being a spy agency and end its role as a remote-control death squad

• Malala Yousafzai has the look of a leader in the making

  

  4 Jan 2013:

  Jonathan Jones: Framing the debate: This image shows a brave girl who has plenty of fight left in her, not a passive victim of the Taliban's ideological violence

• Pakistan's war on polio workers

  3 Jan 2013:

  Afiya Shehrbano Zia for openDemocracy When Pakistan's feminists and activists protest against abuses by the Taliban, some critics make misguided appeals to context

• Faces of 2012: let's celebrate heroines before they become victims

  

  28 Dec 2012: Jenny Kleeman: Marie Colvin and Malala Yousafzai deserve acclaim, but other bold female reporters and activists are ignored by the media

• Newtown kids v Yemenis and Pakistanis: what explains the disparate reactions?

  

  19 Dec 2012:

  Glenn Greenwald: Numerous commentators have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens' deaths are perceived. What explains it?

• In the US, mass child killings are tragedies. In Pakistan, mere bug splats

  

  17 Dec 2012: George Monbiot: Barack Obama's tears for the children of Newtown are in stark contrast to his silence over the children murdered by his drones

• Apparel industry outsourcing costs garment workers' lives in Bangladesh

  

  13 Dec 2012:

  Scott Nova: Until western consumers make safety standards an issue for the big clothing brands, factory fires will continue to take lives

• Kabul's $100m mosque: a sign of a heavyweight battle for post-2014 Afghanistan

  

  9 Dec 2012: Catriona Luke: As Nato prepares to withdraw, Afghans will find it hard not to get caught up in the competing interests of regional powers

• The west's hypocrisies give succour to tyrants

  

  2 Dec 2012:

  Nick Cohen: Western politicians and judges behave as if the rest of the world is not watching

• Pakistan faces violence in a supposed time of peace

  

  19 Nov 2012: Samira Shackle: A crackdown to prevent the bloodshed of previous Muharram festivals against Shias is welcome – but will it go far enough?

• Obama administration must account to Congress for targeted assassinations

  

  16 Nov 2012:

  Dennis Kucinich: The White House will not even release the legal advice about its drone kill policy. The American people needs full oversight

• Blasphemy laws are darkening Pakistan's skies

  

  9 Nov 2012:

  Salman Hameed: A Lahore girls' school has been burned to the ground and an astronomer's family arrested because of this tool of intolerance

• The Taliban's main fear is not drones but educated girls

  

  4 Nov 2012:

  Mohammed Hanif: If Pakistan really wants to combat the fundamentalists, it should be protecting its children and their teachers

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