omar | March 25, 2011
WASHINGTON DIARY: The military’s risky game. Doctor sahib underestimates how excited the Pak army brass is because of the rise of China. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
Razib Khan | March 24, 2011
As most of you know, I’ve been following Zack Ajmal’s Harappa Ancestry Project for a while now. I have come to a conclusion in regards to Pashtuns vs. Persians: Persians = Aryans X Arabs Pashtuns = Aryans X Brownz* Glib, not totally accurate, but if you inspect the ADMIXTURE results, I think this simple model [...]
thabet | March 24, 2011
So, it’s the match I suspect many have been wanting to see in this tournament. All the Pakistanis I know were supporting India (or at least not supporting Australia!). They really wanted their team to play India. Based on anecdotal evidence, I expect Dhaka will be supporting Pakistan. Kathmandu will be backing India (apart from [...]
Zachary Latif | March 24, 2011
The first glimmer of light appears, seeping through the darkness.
Zachary Latif | March 23, 2011
Maulana Azad, was a key Muslim supporter of Congress and “United India” who later on became the Minister of Education of India. Here is an excellent interview with an Urdu magazine in 1946 on the state of Indian Islam on several dimensions, obviously this was a year before the creation of Pakistan and the independence of India.
omar | March 23, 2011
Shaukat Qadir: How the Pentagon Supervised Raymond Davis Release and How the CIA Took Its Revenge. This article is of interest to me because it is a good illustration of: 1. The thinking of the Pakistani “deep state” 2. Their extremely close relationship with the Pentagon and their mutual contempt for all civilian authority in [...]
Razib Khan | March 23, 2011
The post below which mentions the targeted attacks on Pakistanis in Bahrain puts into stark perspective an aspect which I think the American media has treated only superficially: the intersection between national movements of self-determination in a world of global migration. Most proximately calculated the migration of millions of poor South Asians into abject servitude [...]
omar | March 23, 2011
Mullah Caught in Debate Over Tradition vs. Modern Education – NYTimes.com. 150,000 students is no mean achievement. And he is part of a trend. btw, I was told by a Muslim doctor from Mumbai a few years ago that Muslims in Maharashtra and many other states have seen a very definite turn towards modern education [...]
Razib Khan | March 22, 2011
At Discover I pointed out that a reporter at The New York Times who wrote an analytic piece on Libya which Überblogger Matt Yglesias deemed “excellent” doesn’t know what Sufism is. Not a big deal if he was simply reporting basic facts, but the point of the analytic piece was to provide “perspective” for the [...]
omar | March 22, 2011
This is partly tongue-in-cheek and completely off the top of my head, but friend Moid Alam said something that led me to this quick comment: You may have hit upon an interesting theory. Suppose we look at recent South Asian history as the gradual displacement of Jihadism and Islamism to smaller and smaller, but increasingly [...]
Omar is a Pakistani-American with an interest in history. He also moderates the Asiapeace discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asiapeace/
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