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1971: A Personal Account Of The Year Pakistan Broke Apart – III
In the summer of 1971 when the Bengali uprising had built up wide-spread momentum and the security forces desperately tried ...
1971: A Personal Account Of The Year Pakistan Broke Apart – I
Into 1971, there was one thing I knew for certain in East Pakistan: a tsunami of ethnic violence was heading ...
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 ...
Anti-Western Populism By The Prime Minister Is Not Compatible With The National Security Policy Document
Pakistan launched its first-ever National Security Policy (NSP) earlier this year, which purports to be citizen-centric and claims that the ...
How Wise Is It For Pakistan To Look Exclusively To The East?
The brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine is now proceeding with full ferocity. It is resulting in bloodshed, terror and chaos ...
Theology In Service Of Secularism: The Case Of John Locke And Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...
Go West, Young Man!
The title of this article must have had a reincarnation in the Subcontinent, because this is what the people of ...
Tragedy Foretold: Three Fatal Decisions That Led To The 1971 Conflict
The 50th anniversary of the fall of Dhaka, arguably the most painful milestone in our history, resurrected a vexed question: ...
Inspired Physician and Jewel of Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ – Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
Sitting in his clinic, attending to his patients on one of his busy days in a long-lost era twelve centuries ...
Gladly Becoming The Other: The Oddities Of Self-Orientalism
In his hugely influential book Orientalism (1978), Edward Said — a founder of ‘post-colonial studies’ — demonstrated how the West ...
Playing The Fiddle While Dhaka Burned: How We Ended Up With A Leftover Pakistan
16th of December 1971: General AAK Niazi receives a telegram from President Yahya Khan which reads: "You have fought a ...
Can ‘Khel Khel Mein’ Help Us Come To Terms With The Injustices And Trauma From 1971?
Brothers were separated. Both the Eastern and Western wings of the country were stained by blood. Relations between them changed: ...
From Maulana To Mao-Lana And Beyond: Bhashani’s Dream
Maulana Bhashani, who was born 141 years ago on December 12 yesterday, was the most important leader of that Pakistan ...
Cost Of A Cup Of Tea: When Flamboyant Spymasters Outlast Their Strategic Relevance
“If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?” (Frederick ...
Pakistan’s Calcitrant Communist: Abdullah Malik At 101
October this year is special for those in the Indian Subcontinent who profess to be on the Left and have ...
On The Art Of War And Writing Letters To The Enemy: Gallantry At The Battle Of Jamalpur
In 1971, Pakistan found itself in an impossible situation. Severe polarization between the two wings of the country had resulted ...
Foreign Influence And The Shaping Of An Individual’s Identity – The View From Arabic Literature
Whether in the form of colonialism or interaction with an individual from a contrasting cultural background, foreign influence undeniably leaves ...
A Tale of 2 Medical Colleges that Refused to Die
This is a story of two medical colleges that refused to die. It took some hard work on the part ...
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27 Samsung Employees Arrested After TLP’s Violent Protest In Karachi
The police have arrested at least 27 Samsung...
PML-N Leaders Campaign Against Own Party Candidate In PP-228 By-poll
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Abdul Rehman Kanju...