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’Dharnas ended already. What is happening now is the aftermath of script’s collapse’

Nadeem Farooq Paracha/Adnan Farooq · Sep 25, 2014 · 4 min read

” The military was quick to distance itself from the sit-ins after Javed Hashmi's claims. I personally think the top men in the military, including General Rahe...

Neo-fascist upset in Swedish elections

Farooq Sulehria · Sep 25, 2014 · 5 min read

For the first time in several decades, Sweden is witnessing a political crisis generated by shock-vote for neo-fascist Swedish Democrats, now the third-largest ...

Julian Assange's latest book skewers Google

Mat Ward · Sep 11, 2014 · 7 min read

When Google Met WikiLeaks By Julian Assange Published August 22, 2014 200 pages, paperback, $16 OR Books www.orbooks.com When Google CEO Eric Schmidt turned up ...

Letter to a Tablighi cricketer

Anonymous · Sep 11, 2014 · 4 min read

Dear Ahmed Shahzad, In Dambulla, while walking to the dressing room, when you were preaching Tillakaratne Dilshan your faith, the goddesses of decency and toler...

Pre-nuptial agreement

Hakim Hazik · Sep 11, 2014 · 2 min read

The Parties intend to form a matrimonial bond and, partnership agreement on the 13th day of September, 2013 as soon as Naya Pakistan is consummated. Between: 1....

Romila Thapar bursts the Hindutva myths

Amit Ranjan · Sep 11, 2014 · 4 min read

Romila Thapar Thapar, Romila (2014) The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities through History, New Delhi: Aleph Books p. 330, price Rs 595. Romila Th...

‘U.S. saw ISIS as a leverage to get rid of Maliki, reduce Iranian influence in Iraq’

Gilbert Achcar · Sep 11, 2014 · 15 min read

Gilbert Achcar ‘Radicalisation and resentment do not lead in and of themselves to the development of this or that force; it all depends on the existing subjecti...

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Viewpoint · Sep 1, 2014 · 2 min read

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‘6000 Baloch militants resisting Pak Army’: Allah Nazar Baloch

Boriwal Kakar · Aug 28, 2014 · 9 min read

‘It is Punjabi collaborators and not Punjabi settlers that are targeted. Those who are working as informants for the Military Intelligence or the ISI in the gui...

‘Sectarian violence in Balochistan is state-sponsored’: Hyrbiar Marri

Boriwal Kakar · Aug 28, 2014 · 7 min read

‘It is unfortunate for us that when the slave and weak nation has a difference of opinion, the world calls it disagreement, whereas when such happens in Europe ...

Pakistan demands self-determination for Kashmir but has occupied Balochistan: Hyrbiar Marri

Boriwal Kakar · Aug 21, 2014 · 6 min read

‘As you know there are many in Balochistan. They believe that Balochistan’s occupation is being maintained through the barrel of gun; hence, Balochistan liberat...

Will the military once again take over in Pakistan?

Farooq Tariq · Aug 17, 2014 · 6 min read

Opposition leader and chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, launched his long march on August 14 to protest against what he considers rigging in t...

Eid With Idi Amin

Hakim Hazik · Aug 15, 2014 · 2 min read

Ya Akhi, We are in receipt of your missive and the dromedary which is in the prime of youth and no doubt, is the pride of her race. She camels and women should ...

‘Problem is not Hamas charter: Israel does not recognise Palestine’

Tariq Suleman · Aug 14, 2014 · 11 min read

Tariq Suleman is a PhD candidate at SOAS, London. He is researching on: How Imperial Construction and Management of Difference and Ensuing Communitarian Politic...

Balochistan’s Shia Hazaras: A piecemeal genocide

Muhammad Akbar Notezai · Aug 14, 2014 · 5 min read

On July 4, 2003 gunmen entered and opened fire in a Hazara Imambargah in Quetta as the Friday prayers were proceeding, killing more than 50 and wounding many mo...

He has to find it first

John Reimann · Aug 14, 2014 · 2 min read

On the day after the Obama administration started bombing the Islamic State (IS – formerly ISIS) in northern Iraq, the Wall St. Journal wrote an editorial on ho...

Recognizing the rights of pregnant women in war

Carol Mann · Aug 14, 2014 · 2 min read

As the war in Gaza continues relentlessly, albeit with unequal means, the innumerable articles that have appeared have not sufficiently considered all the women...

Small genocides

Justin Podur · Aug 14, 2014 · 7 min read

When the word genocide is invoked, many people might think of Rwanda 1994. In that genocide, the government of the country targeted a minority population for ma...

What is a Revolution?

Tariq Ali · Aug 14, 2014 · 3 min read

Ever since the beginning of the Arab Spring there has been much talk of revolutions. Not from me. I’ve argued against the position that mass uprisings on their ...

‘Haqqani network quietly shifted to Kurrum Agency: Shia-Sunni strife likely to grow’

Kahar Zalmay · Aug 7, 2014 · 3 min read

Kahar Zalmay In a recent report, scandalously ignored by Pakistani media outlets (1), journalist Kahar Zalmay has claimed that Haqqani network was quietly reloc...

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