December 2016
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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…
