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Review: Rail Ki Seeti (an elegy for partition)
Reviews Mohammed Hasan Miraj’s Urdu book Rail ki Seeti, an elegy for Partition following the railway line from Rawalpindi, praising a writer whose Dawn pieces blend history, folklore and a…
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Sikhism & Iran’s Symbol
Links an article on Iran’s Sikhs, prompted by a similar Iranian symbol that proved coincidental, and comments on India–Iran closeness and Pakistan’s one-sided relationship with Iran.
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100 Years of Marxist Revolution..
With links to centenary reviews, the author replies that early Marxists can be excused but their heirs cannot, and suggests Marxism persists because, like a religion, it appeals to both…
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Book Review: Last Hope Island
Reviews Lynne Olson’s Last Hope Island, which the reviewer says does a good job of telling the neglected story of European exiles sheltering in Britain in the Second World War…
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CPEC
Reports notes from a CPEC round table: two proposed routes, one via West Punjab and Sindh and one via Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and the point that British planning treated…
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Cry of the Pandits
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New low in civil-military relations in Pakistan
Hamid Hussain outlines, for non-Pakistani readers, the background to the strain in Pakistan’s civil-military relations in 2017, setting the friction against its history and the military’s long role in the…
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Islam, Gays, “One Islam”..
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China’s Israel
Reposts a friend’s article from The News on China–Pakistan relations, opening with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s 1960 abstention on China’s UN membership as an early signal of Pakistan’s shift away from…
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Muslim aggression
Recounts a Muslim couple’s alarm at his dog, reads it as a recent immigrant’s failure to learn local norms, and blames liberal elites for not encouraging integration.
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
Sunday, 8 November 2026Since December 2010 · 4,170 posts · 93,919 comments
