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Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

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Muslim civilisation and Pakistan

Tens of thousands of things need to be done to transform a traditional society and an underdeveloped country.

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Donald Trump returns — so what?

THE “most dangerous man in the world”, according to Noam Chomsky, is back in the White House. His first term in office proved him to be a...

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Truth to power

‘Afdhalu jihad kalimatu ‘adl ‘inda sultan jabir’ (The best jihad is a word of truth to a tyrannical ruler) — Hadith Sharif AS a senior...

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The Indo-Pacific pivot

28.08.2024 200

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Improving India-Pakistan ties

NEVER have India-Pakistan relations been so bad for so long. They barely exist today. In a polarised but interdependent world, with the Doomsday Clock...

27.08.2024 200

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In the words of Chomsky

We live in the same world and belong to the same species. Our experiences – both individually and collectively – are fundamentally similar despite...

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More than Biden or Trump?

WE talk a lot about the state of Pakistan today, and, by and large, it is not encouraging — to put it mildly. We are also part of the larger world...

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Chomsky: a savant nonpareil

There is much evil in the world today: globally, regionally, nationally, sub-nationally, and individually. There has, of course, always been evil in...

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The Thucydides trap reimagined

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Breaking the chain of corruption: Part – II

The late prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, largely eliminated corruption from Singapore and thereby transformed it from a third-world to a...

05.04.2024 60

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Breaking the chain of corruption — Part – I

Anti-corruption measures can only have cumulative success if they are part and parcel of good governance. In the absence of good governance,...

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Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – III )

In Chinese thinking the strategic discourse is more holistic and integrated than segmented just as is the case with its medical, political and...

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Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – II )

In a talk at the National Defence College, Kissinger likened strategy to a chess game in which each player seeks to control the maximum number of...

10.03.2024 50

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Strategic leadership and statecraft ( Part – I )

For Pakistanis in their present condition, it would be irrelevant to discuss strategic leadership and statecraft without reference to the realities...

09.03.2024 50

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Stabilizing the economy

[This is based on a talk by Mueen Afzal, former secretary of general finance, a prominent philanthropist and chairman of several national...

25.02.2024 40

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The people have stood up

Haal-e-chaman par talkh nawai/ Murgh-e-chaman, kuch iss se ziyada (A bitter song on how the garden is/ Oh nightingale, say more than this!) – Faiz...

11.02.2024 20

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A long and graceful life

These were originally remarks at a recent memorial meeting: a galaxy of Pakistani luminaries have paid truly exceptional tributes to the late Sartaj...

22.01.2024 30

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Facts, questions & solutions

‘Asbahna wa asbaha-lmulku lillahi rabb-il’alameen’ (We awake and the country awakes to Allah the Lord of the Universe) — Hadith Sharif ...

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Zakaria, brilliant, wrong

IN a seminal article in the latest issue of the US establishment journal, Foreign Affairs, under the caption ‘The Self-Doubting Superpower’,...

16.12.2023 100

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India’s Muslim precariat

“Jaag mere Punjab ke Pakistan chala” — Habib Jalib RECENTLY, Prof Christophe Jaffrelot, an authority on India’s Muslims, spoke on ‘The...

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