A Wall Breached: Civil Religion’s Battle With A Resurgent Political Theocracy
The Iconoclast Images of fanatical Chinese youth waving Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’ (Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) during the Cultural Revolution appeared ...
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Unequal Cities
For some years my life has been split between New York and Rawalpindi. While living in two places can make ...
Land Of Chicken Manchurian And Rice
It is interesting to see how migrants can bring their cultures with them and then adapt them to local practices, ...
Begin At The Beginning: Interpreting The Preamble To Pakistan’s Constitution
The vote of no-confidence of March 2022 has created a pressing need to study, understand and create awareness at wider ...
Mingling Of The Oceans: A Pedagogical Strategy To Check The Violence In Our Times
Prince Dara Shikoh was the crown prince of the Mughal Empire and son and heir of Shah Jahan, ruler of ...
How A Pakistani Professor At Rutgers Faces Attempts To Drive Her Out
Letter_Rutgers Academics from a wide variety of backgrounds, in a letter addressed to the Chancellor at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ) ...
Our Farce Of Civilian Supremacy
In June 2010, US President Barack Obama fired his commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, for insubordination. ...
The Breaking Point: When Silence Is No Longer An Option
For a nation, at any given point in time, the most dismal of fears is to know that the future ...
The ‘Threat Letter’ And The No-Confidence Motion
As all eyes are now on the Supreme Court case which will determine the constitutionality of the Deputy Speaker’s egregious ...
Implications Of The Alleged ‘Threatening Letter’ For Pakistani Foreign Policy
On the 27th of March, addressing a large gathering of his supporters, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan waved ...
Putin’s War: Trying To Resolve An Old Strategic Dilemma With A Perilous New World Order
Some years ago, I was talking to Pakistan’s famous intellectual, political analyst and renowned environmentalist Dr. Adil Najam. I asked ...
It Would Be Unwise For The US To Turn Its Back On Pakistan And Its People
A rollercoaster-like bilateral relationship between Pakistan and the US is now in a deeply mistrustful phase. Interestingly, their friendship begins ...
Captain, Comrade, Conspirator, Citizen: Zafar Ullah Poshni’s Vow of Loyalty
It so happened that I was reading the very readable WW2 memoir of Major Ishaq Muhammad on the 6th of ...
Hubs, Biryani And Brute Focus
So, Hubs (looking terribly sweet and slightly chubby these days) has developed a new and impassioned interest. Cooking ‘biryani’ is ...
Washington Will ‘Get Real’ On The Taliban…Eventually
American pragmatism in foreign policy is exemplary in the world of international politics. The US foreign policy establishment sometimes goes ...
Filling The Strategic Void In Afghanistan
The dust has yet to settle from America’s hastily withdrawal from Afghanistan and instead of engaging with the Taliban to ...
Rediscovering Humanity: Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad
The last couple of years have brought about a resurgence of the debate on race, caste distinctions and slavery within ...
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‘PM Shehbaz Stopped Mohsin Dawar From Asking Tough Questions To Gen Faiz During NSC Meeting’
MNA Mohsin Dawar and Peshawar Corps Commander Lieutenant...
Will Reveal Everything About Characters Of ‘Regime Change Conspiracy’ If ‘Harassment’ Continues: Imran
Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson...