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Jonathan Finer’s Less-Than-Fine Moment

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Ejaz Haider

Zionists and Salafis Join to Kill the Palestinian Cause

In April 1904, famous English geographer, theorist, politician and diplomat, Sir Halford Mackinder writing in The Geographical Journal, presented what...

09.12.2024 20

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Let’s Restore People’s Electoral Verdict Before It’s Too Late 

For Imran Khan’s dedicated workers, what is happening in Islamabad is all about Khan. He has been wronged, ousted through a conspiracy, and...

26.11.2024 20

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WHAT DOES TRUMP 2.0 MEAN FOR THE WORLD?

Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and he is making...

17.11.2024 30

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WHAT DOES TRUMP 2.0 MEAN FOR THE WORLD?

PROLOGUE Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and he...

17.11.2024 30

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The Race is Tied and America is in Trepidation Mode

By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...

05.11.2024 10

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The Race is Tied And Aaerica is in Trepidation Mode

By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...

05.11.2024 10

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HOW THE US SUSTAINS ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES

“For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to...

03.11.2024 60

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Of Wars and Innovation

Scholars and policymakers have been vexed over the question of how wars can be prevented. Political scientist James D Fearon went looking for...

31.10.2024 10

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26th Amendment: Using Parliament to Debase the Constitution

PREAMBLE On July 24, 2023, Israel’s Knesset passed a controversial bill to strip their highest court of the power to declare government decisions...

23.10.2024 30

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Israel is Likely Planning Internal Strife in Iran

There’s much speculation about how and when Israel will respond to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attacks at three military targets in Israel....

17.10.2024 10

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THE DARK HEART OF ZIONISM

“Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars…War is a perfect, self-contained being.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore “On...

13.10.2024 40

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Preventing Covert Ops Requires Smart Counterintelligence

At around 3.30 pm local time in southern Lebanon, the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh and eastern Bekaa Valley — Hezbollah strongholds —...

18.09.2024 10

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The 'Constitutional Package' is Dirty Politics Cloaked in Legislation 

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are...

16.09.2024 30

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Basic Guidelines for Doing COIN/CT Properly 

Former Lieutenant-General Tariq Khan has recently penned a short piece on counterinsurgency, which needs serious reading and discussion. A word about...

07.09.2024 20

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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister on Balochistan

Dear Mr Prime Minister,  I am taking the presumption of penning this letter in regard to the recent upsurge in violence in Balochistan. I realise...

02.09.2024 20

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Tired Cliches Won’t Improve Balochistan

The harrowing details of another terrible day in Balochistan are known by now so I will eschew them. I want instead to focus on the timing and purpose...

27.08.2024 10

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The Rot Is Systemic. Hameed Is Just One Manifestation Of It

Since the arrest of Faiz Hameed, former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, we are witnessing a circus which is both amusing and...

23.08.2024 10

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Unpacking Netanyahu’s Diabolical Strategy

As the Gaza ceasefire talks enter the second day in Doha, the situation in the Middle East remains ripe for an impending vertical escalation between...

16.08.2024 10

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Justice Should go Beyond Hameed

Former Lieutenant-General Faiz Hameed, also a former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, is in military custody since August 8....

14.08.2024 10

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Netanyahu Wants a War; Iran Might Just be Poised to Give it to Him

On June 28, 1914, as Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie passed through a street in Sarajevo, a small group of Serbian nationalists...

04.08.2024 20

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After Haniyeh, Top Israeli Officials Should be Fair Game

On April 10, the second day of Eid al-Fitr, an Israeli drone struck a car in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza carrying three sons and four grandchildren...

31.07.2024 10

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Is the World Sleepwalking into Major Wars?

In a joint statement on July 10, Washington and Berlin indicated that beginning 2026 the United States will start “episodic deployments of the...

29.07.2024 7

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Goldilocks’ Dilemma of State-Society Relations

Fifteen years before the failed Europeans revolutions of 1848, a small group of German students, artists and workers seeking to unite Germanic states...

24.07.2024 20

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SHOULD PAKISTAN TRADE WITH INDIA?

PROLOGUE On January 16, 2023, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with the Dubai-based television channel, Al Arabiya and, among other issues,...

21.07.2024 90

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To End this War Israel Must End Its Occupation

Pressure is mounting on Hamas to accept an Israeli three-phase deal which was first unveiled by United States President Joe Biden on May 31 in a...

27.06.2024 20

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Unpacking the WSJ Exclusive on Sinwar's 'Cold Calculation'

A June 10 exclusive report in the United States newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, claims to have reviewed dozens of messages by Hamas’ Gaza...

15.06.2024 10

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Would 240 Curtail Modi? I Don’t Think So

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged from India’s 18th General Election as the single largest party with 240 seats. Its allies in the...

12.06.2024 10

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THE CONTRADICTION OF ZIONISM

“Immigrants are unarmed; settlers come armed with both weapons and a nationalist agenda… for settlers, there can be no homeland without a state....

02.06.2024 40

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Hamas Might Take the Deal to Avoid Being the Spoiler

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is poised to enter its most devastating phase. The April 30 statement by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

01.05.2024 20

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WHY WAR IN PALESTINE WILL CONTINUE

“Where did you come from?” “From Poland.” “When?” “1948.” “When exactly?” “March 1, 1948.” A heavy silence prevailed. All of...

21.04.2024 20

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Iran says the Matter has Ended. Would Israel Agree?

I wrote yesterday that “I find more meat in the argument for patience [by Iran] than immediate retaliation…. That said, the histories of wars tell...

14.04.2024 10

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Iran has a Stronger Case for Patience Than Immediate Retaliation

Israel’s drone strike on Iran’s consular building in Damascus on April 1 killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, including a...

13.04.2024 20

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IS ‘ISIS’ STILL A GLOBAL THREAT?

“‘Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on...

07.04.2024 30

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To Deal with TTP, Pakistan Must Inflict Pain on TTA

Pakistan has finally officially acknowledged striking targets in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktia provinces. Earlier on Monday, Zabihullah Mujahid,...

18.03.2024 8

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Democracy and the Majority Problem

In a previous article I wrote about people’s will being the central legal-constitutional principle of government formation and expressed through...

15.03.2024 20

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Manipulated Electoral Process has Forced Another Engineered Government on Pakistan

With the formation of governments after the February 8 elections, the discussion on TV channels, newspapers and WhatsApp groups has moved on to who...

06.03.2024 10

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‘MY FELLOW PAKISTANIS…’

Let me first thank those who have voted for the party I lead. This is a trust that places an onerous responsibility on me and the team which will...

18.02.2024 20

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MAKING SENSE OF THE PAK-IRAN STAND-OFF

In what was widely described as a surprise attack, Iran fired missiles at a compound in Sabz-Koh, a hamlet about 45 kilometres from the Pakistan-Iran...

28.01.2024 20

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Iran’s Aggression is a Folly at all Levels

Iran’s decision to violate the territorial integrity of Pakistan is not only ill-timed, but a poor call at multiple levels. It garnered no military...

18.01.2024 10

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Between Slow Extermination and Fighting, Hamas Chose to Fight

Why did Hamas attack Israel on October 7? At the time of writing this, 520 Israeli soldiers had been killed and 12,500 wounded, and over 3,000 have...

11.01.2024 10

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Winning Battles and Losing Wars

After the October 7 attack by Hamas, Al Jazeera brought on a former Israeli general who told the audience that while Israel had failed to detect and...

02.01.2024 30

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Mr Netanyahu, Here Are the Three Real Prereqs for Peace

In his recent WSJ op-ed, Israel’s increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes: “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be...

26.12.2023 10

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Hamas’ Asymmetric Tactics: How Long can it Sustain the Fight

Whenever the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel ends, it will be studied with great interest by military planners. The war’s outcome remains...

11.12.2023 8

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Eretz Yisrael as a Settler-Colonial Project

Sixty-three days into the Gaza War at the time of writing this and no one really knows what the endgame is, global punditry aside. Even Israel,...

08.12.2023 10

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