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IT will live in history: the Jabalia death march. As reported by Al Jazeera, the fleeing Palestinians were carrying white flags while going through...
THE motto of the Israeli Defence (IDF), according to its website, is: “Defence is our mission, security is our goal.”One wonders what the...
OF all the sense and nonsense spoken about the Balochistan situation, two statements stand out: Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti’s truth about the 4,000...
One of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s earliest biographies in a European language was in Spanish by Jorge Blanco Villalta. I have its English translation,...
“Dear Mr Jinnah” — 70 Years in the Life of a Pakistani Civil Servant By Salman Faruqui Lightstone Publishers ISBN: 978-969-716-282-6 429pp. ...
Jamhuriyat Ki Haqeeqat By Dr Javed Akbar Ansari Maktab Al-Burhan 496pp. [NO ISBN LISTED] A work of scholarship by Dr Javed Akbar Ansari, with...
TERRORISM is as old as war, which means as ancient as the first traces of organised human community. In the middle of the last century, Sindh suffered...
Pakistan-China: All-Weather Strategic Partner By Dr Rashid Jamal Loheadab Publications ISBN 978-969-7504-22-0 194pp. The flyleaf of Dr Rashid...
One of my favourite evergreens I am never tired of reading is John Toland’s 1,400-page biography of Adolf Hitler. With so many biographies and war...
THE Supreme Court’s March 6 judgement gives valid legal reasons why the trial that led to the verdict ordering Z.A. Bhutto’s execution in 1979 did...
WITHIN a short time after the founding of Israel, a persecuted people who had never warred became “a nation of soldiers”. As historians Edward...
Revisiting the Durand Line — Historical and Legal Perspectives By Lutfur Rehman IPS Press ISBN: 978-969-448-836-3 229pp. To write his book,...
MARTIN Luther was by any standards a great man. He took on mediaeval Europe’s strongest institution, the papacy, and changed the continent’s...
JUST 2.4 million people — five per cent of Shanghai’s population — and a superpower sends two aircraft carriers to threaten them and reassure...
China-Pakistan-Iran: Trilateral Relations in the Changing World By Raza Ali Khan Paramount Books (Pvt) Ltd. ISBN: 978-627-310-024-1 330pp. As a former...