Imran Khan is employing same old ‘root causes’ theory with France, and drawing ridicule
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Imran Khan is employing same old ‘root causes’ theory with France, and drawing ridicule

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Pakistan invented the “root causes” theory to justify the export of terror through its Lashkars, al Qaeda, Taliban and others. Now, in company of cornered bigots Recep Erdogan and Mahathir Mohamad, Imran Khan is employing the same trick with France, but is only drawing global ridicule to himself and Pakistan.

New central law will wind up judicial activism on Delhi’s air. And that’s good

Judicial activism on Delhi’s air began with MC Mehta’s PIL in 1985. It worked well because it brought CNG, Metro and new buses. But over time, it became a taxpayer-funded, self-serving activist-judiciary-media complex, even as the air quality worsened. It’s good that the new central law will wind it up.