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Ejaz Haider

Ejaz Haider

The Friday Times

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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

Dawn (Magazines)

Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

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 10

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Ejaz Haider

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

Dawn (Magazines)

Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

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

Dawn (Magazines)

Ejaz Haider

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

Dawn (Magazines)

Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

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 8

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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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Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

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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Ejaz Haider

Elections, Legitimacy and System Rigging

Apparently, this country will finally hold elections on February 8 next year. I must be excused for saying ‘apparently’ because if there’s one...

13.11.2023 10

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Ejaz Haider

Gaza is not Just a Battle, it’s About a Generational War

Any analysis of Israel’s military actions in Gaza and its strategy of collectively punishing the Palestinians must look at the longer trajectory of...

05.11.2023 7

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Ejaz Haider

MISSILES AND MACHINATIONS: DEALING WITH INDIA’S THREAT

While the world grapples with the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War, and now the asymmetrical, murderous war in Gaza, attention has largely shifted away from...

05.11.2023 10

Dawn (Magazines)

Ejaz Haider

Narrative as Form and Expression of Power

Since the October 7 surprise attack by Hamas, large sections of western broadcast and print media have routinely condemned Hamas’ violence in severe...

16.10.2023 10

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Ejaz Haider

The Well-Crafted Strategy of Blaming the Victim

When Ted Hughes wrote Apple Tragedy, upending the story in the Genesis, it wasn’t a simple act of mocking but an attempt to problematise the grand...

11.10.2023 6

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Ejaz Haider

Courage Aside, the Clock is Ticking for Ukraine

In a Veterans Day speech on October 1, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that there was no “‘expiration date… or final point after which we...

05.10.2023 9

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Ejaz Haider

Azerbaijan has Won, Now It Needs to Normalise with Armenia

Given the big-ticket news developments, the details of the story unfolding in the South Caucasus have largely gone unnoticed.  In a precision...

29.09.2023 20

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Ejaz Haider

Morally Murky Geopolitics will Likely Trump Justice for Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation that India was involved in a covert assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil has...

23.09.2023 10

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Ejaz Haider

G20 Runs the Risk of Becoming Moribund

Bollywood dances, music, glitter, razzmatazz, beautification of New Delhi (which over several months rendered nearly 300,000 homeless), invitation to...

15.09.2023 10

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