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Jabalia death march

IT will live in history: the Jabalia death march. As reported by Al Jazeera, the fleeing Palestinians were carrying white flags while going through...

03.11.2024 50

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Genocide in Gaza

THE motto of the Israeli Defence (IDF), according to its website, is: “Defence is our mission, security is our goal.”One wonders what the...

07.10.2024 100

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Baloch quagmire

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...

21.09.2024 200

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ESSAY: FROM TRAITOR TO GHAZI

One of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s earliest biographies in a European language was in Spanish by Jorge Blanco Villalta. I have its English translation,...

15.09.2024 30

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NON-FICTION: A BUREAUCRAT WRITES BACK

“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. ...

04.08.2024 30

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NON-FICTION: THE ‘EVIL’ OF DEMOCRACY

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...

26.05.2024 80

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Fighting terrorism

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...

27.04.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: UNDERSTANDING THE PAK-CHINA RELATIONSHIP

Pakistan-China: All-Weather Strategic Partner By Dr Rashid Jamal Loheadab Publications ISBN 978-969-7504-22-0 194pp. The flyleaf of Dr Rashid...

14.04.2024 10

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ESSAY: HITLER, HAROON AND HOLLYWOOD

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...

24.03.2024 30

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The Bhutto wound

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...

20.03.2024 60

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Nation of soldiers

WITHIN a short time after the founding of Israel, a persecuted people who had never warred became “a nation of soldiers”. As historians Edward...

20.02.2024 60

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NON-FICTION: DURAND’S ‘PERPETUAL AGREEMENT’

Revisiting the Durand Line — Historical and Legal Perspectives  By Lutfur Rehman IPS Press ISBN: 978-969-448-836-3 229pp.   To write his book,...

11.02.2024 10

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In their own words

MARTIN Luther was by any standards a great man. He took on mediaeval Europe’s strongest institution, the papacy, and changed the continent’s...

04.01.2024 100

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Israeli influence

JUST 2.4 million people — five per cent of Shanghai’s population — and a superpower sends two aircraft carriers to threaten them and reassure...

16.12.2023 100

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NON-FICTION: A STRATEGIC TRIANGLE

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...

03.12.2023 30

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