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The Bokhari Brothers and Lionell Fielden
Hamid Hussain pays tribute to Ahmed Shah and Zulfiqar Ali Bokhari, scions of Peshawar tied to the history of broadcasting in India, and to Lionel Fielden, who came from the…
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PIA’s Black Goat Sacrifice
Describes PIA engineers sacrificing a black goat at Islamabad airport before resuming ATR flights after a crash, and sets out the derision of westernised Pakistanis and objections from orthodox Muslims,…
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Is Islam the rock on which the liberal order broke?
Prompted by an article on global democracy in danger, the author revisits Fukuyama’s end-of-history thesis and asks whether Islam, rather than the postmodern critics of the West, is the force…
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Lt Gen SK Sinha
Hamid Hussain remembers Lieutenant General S. K. Sinha (1926-2016), who came from a Bihar police family, joined the army at the end of the Second World War and spent three…
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President Trump. The unknown unknowns..
After Trump’s election, the author gathers several well-regarded pieces on why and how it happened, adds brief comments on each, and then sets out his own thoughts and open questions…
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Stephen Bannon Speaks..
The author discusses Stephen Bannon’s 2014 Vatican conference remarks, noting his commitment to a global war with Islam and his elite-bashing, and argues that his ‘Judeo-Christian West’ history and economic…
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Guide 1965
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President Trump
A short post of numbered questions after Trump’s win: what a President Trump can deliver for rust-belt voters, which of the predicted disasters might come true, and where his instincts…
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Pakistan and GHQ’s commitment to fight terrorists..
The author asks how outsiders can judge whether the Pakistan army is committed to defeating all Islamist militant groups, and proposes public metrics, such as whether the main enemy is…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
