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Ejaz HaiderThe Friday Times |
“Where did you come from?” “From Poland.” “When?” “1948.” “When exactly?” “March 1, 1948.” A heavy silence prevailed. All of...
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...
Israel’s drone strike on Iran’s consular building in Damascus on April 1 killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, including a...
“‘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...
Pakistan has finally officially acknowledged striking targets in Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktia provinces. Earlier on Monday, Zabihullah Mujahid,...
In a previous article I wrote about people’s will being the central legal-constitutional principle of government formation and expressed through...
With the formation of governments after the February 8 elections, the discussion on TV channels, newspapers and WhatsApp groups has moved on to who...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In his recent WSJ op-ed, Israel’s increasingly unpopular Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes: “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be...
Whenever the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel ends, it will be studied with great interest by military planners. The war’s outcome remains...
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,...
Apparently, this country will finally hold elections on February 8 next year. I must be excused for saying ‘apparently’ because if there’s one...
Any analysis of Israel’s military actions in Gaza and its strategy of collectively punishing the Palestinians must look at the longer trajectory of...
While the world grapples with the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War, and now the asymmetrical, murderous war in Gaza, attention has largely shifted away from...
Since the October 7 surprise attack by Hamas, large sections of western broadcast and print media have routinely condemned Hamas’ violence in severe...
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...
In a Veterans Day speech on October 1, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that there was no “‘expiration date… or final point after which we...
Given the big-ticket news developments, the details of the story unfolding in the South Caucasus have largely gone unnoticed. In a precision...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation that India was involved in a covert assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil has...
Bollywood dances, music, glitter, razzmatazz, beautification of New Delhi (which over several months rendered nearly 300,000 homeless), invitation to...