May 2018
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Kargil War
Omar Ali reposts his argument that Musharraf and a few cronies launched the Kargil operation without thinking it through, calling it a strategic and tactical disaster that cost hundreds of…
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Kashmir, a Personal View..
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Pakistan and India. The Long View.. (updated)
The author argues that the India-Pakistan conflict is asymmetric because Pakistan wants to change the Kashmir status quo while India is content with it, surveys Pakistan’s attempts to change it…
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Pre-Islamic Arabia
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3 questions about BP readers
X.T.M asks readers and commenters about gender, education, ethnic origin, caste background and privilege, prompted by a commenter’s bio.
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For “Strategic Reasons”, Did Britain Want Pakistan in 1947?
An anonymous correspondent’s points, posted by Omar Ali, argue that Britain preferred a divided India for strategic reasons after 1945, with the Soviet Union ascendant and Congress refusing to grant…
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Review: 12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson)
Omar Ali reviews Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life, prompted by the author’s controversy and a long library hold list. He finds the rules generally sound, if some are obvious…
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Comment of the Day
X.T.M promotes a comment arguing that the Pakistan movement involved more than Jinnah, citing the clerics Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Husain Ahmad Madani, and that the central dispute was minority…
