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Pakistan average DNA as a country
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Pakistan Is Not Yugoslavia
X.T.M argues that Pakistan is not a Yugoslavia-in-waiting. He says a state built around permanent vulnerability tends to centralise and adapt, that 1971 taught that disintegration brings catastrophe, and that…
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Open Thread: the Epstein Files
Open thread on the Epstein files. The opening comment calls them very disturbing and says Browns focus on Indo-Pak conflicts instead of the real news.
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When Even Jainism Becomes a Hack
X.T.M argues that students falsely claiming to be Jain at Stanford to avoid the meal plan reveal how institutions treat religion as paperwork. He says Jainism is an ethnic, mercantile…
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Pakistan, 1971, and the Misuse of the Holocaust Analogy
X.T.M answers a claim that the Pakistan army committed genocide comparable to Nazi crimes. He accepts the 1971 violence but argues that genocide is a legal category not settled by…
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Open Thread Modi and Drumpf announce US-IND Trade deal
Open thread on the US-India trade deal. RecoveringNewsJunkie says Trump claims India will stop buying Russian oil and buy $500 billion of US goods, which Modi did not mention, and…
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Israel: Ongoing Genocide now Concentration Camps
Sbarrkum reposts a report, citing Reuters, that Israel has cleared land in Rafah for a surveilled camp, with an update on West Bank expulsions. His headline calls it genocide and…
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Pakistan’s Civilisational Orphanhood
An argument that Pakistan’s elite is fiercely nationalist on paper but has no civilisation to call its own, living instead in English and Western ideas.
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Baluchistan
This is a near zero likelihood of happening but never say never.
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Two Hours in Delhi, and the Myth of Sudden Alignment
X.T.M disputes a popular claim that MBZ’s two-hour Delhi stopover shows India has replaced Pakistan as the Gulf’s partner. He argues deals are prepared in advance, a short visit signals…
The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself
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