2017

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Harmless Secular Activists “Disappeared” in Pakistan

The author asks why several secular bloggers and rights activists disappeared across Pakistan in one week, noting that the pattern suggests the intelligence agencies, and that English-language, social-media activists in…

Brown Pundits Archive5 February 20170 comments
Neti, Neti.. Left and Right in Trumpian America

A collection of headlines and quotations on Trump, Bannon and the liberal order, set against Avadhuta Gita verses on ‘neti, neti’, with a brief argument about whether identity politics can…

Brown Pundits Archive5 February 20170 comments
China’s coming dominance in science

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-scientific-dominance-is-a-done-deal-2014-6

Brown Pundits Archive5 February 20170 comments
Major General Anant Singh Pathania MVC, MC

Hamid Hussain circulates Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid’s profile of Maj Gen Anant Singh Pathania, MVC, MC, from a family of warriors tied to the hill state of Nurpur, adding…

Brown Pundits Archive8 January 20170 comments
Review of Crossed Swords; a History of the Pakistan Army

Reposts Major Agha H. Amin’s acerbic 2008 review of Shuja Nawaz’s Crossed Swords, which welcomes the book’s new sources and information but judges most of it anecdotal and notes it…

Brown Pundits Archive6 January 20170 comments
Martial Races Theory. Myths and Consequences

Agha H. Amin’s chapter from his book on 1857-59 examines the ‘Martial Races’ theory, floated after the Sepoy rebellion and championed by Lord Roberts, and the myths still believed in…

Brown Pundits Archive5 January 20171 comment
General Raheel Sharif in Saudi Arabia

Hamid Hussain looks at General Raheel Sharif’s move to Saudi Arabia after retiring as Pakistan’s army chief, set against the Yemen war and a Saudi-led coalition of 39 Sunni states…

Brown Pundits Archive2 January 20170 comments

2017

Harmless Secular Activists “Disappeared” in Pakistan

Neti, Neti.. Left and Right in Trumpian America

China’s coming dominance in science

Major General Anant Singh Pathania MVC, MC

Review of Crossed Swords; a History of the Pakistan Army

Martial Races Theory. Myths and Consequences

General Raheel Sharif in Saudi Arabia