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Review: Over the Tightrope
A review of Asif Ismaeel’s debut novel Over the Tightrope, praised as a stunning and unexpected mix of dystopian science fiction, Sufism, politics and humour, set in a Salafist ‘Al-Bakistan’…
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Farewell Sykes-Picot. You will be much missed..
The author argues it is overstated that Sykes-Picot created the modern Middle East’s troubles, since Arab states never built convincing narratives for their own existence, and asks which of several…
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Paris, Islam, ISIS and Sykes-Picot. Random Thoughts
After the Paris attacks, the author describes the Mumbai-style operation and ISIS’s recent bombings in Ankara, Beirut and against a Russian aircraft, then offers random thoughts on Islam, the group’s…
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Hamid Hussain: Remembering Colonel Shuja Khanzada
Hamid Hussain remembers Colonel Shuja Khanzada (1943-2015), the Punjab home minister killed in a suicide attack in Attock, tracing his military family’s service in the British Indian army and his…
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No Water from Mosque for Christians
A news report, by Wilson Chowdhry, on a Christian family in Wazirabad accused of blasphemy over drawing water from a mosque, with a brief comment that comparing Pakistani Christians to…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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