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Geography Is Not Power
India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty believing the upstream power holds the tap. It does not. From the Indus to the Nile, the country at the top of the river…
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Who did the Brits conquer India from?
Did the British take India from the Muslims or from the Hindus? The question cannot be answered, because it was never true. The empire they inherited had already fallen apart,…
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Precedent #1: No Warmongering
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South Asian Peace in Stockholm
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Pakistan, the Successor State to Islamistan
Pakistan is usually read as drifting ever deeper into theocracy. We argue the reverse: its elite has quietly secularised, keeping Islam as the national language while shedding it as the…
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High-Intensity Precedent
The site runs on attention, and when we get busy it slows. So a principle and three rules: original posts that stand on their own, reposts gathered into single running…
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Open Thread: AfPak – Cocktail 2
We are busy but we found this comment amusing: “And who knows, in the distant future we can prop up Afghanistan like China does Pakistan.” We are going to watch…
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The origin and variation of ethnic violence in South Asia
It’s been a few days since I last appeared here, so I don’t know what’s going on here. Either way, I had previously mentioned in some of my past comments…
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Is Pakistan primitive?
An intolerant minority sets the menu for everyone, in a comment thread and in a country. For two months we moderated so carefully against Islamophobia that we let the confinement…
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Indus Water Treaty: What lies in the future?
Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 19 Sept 1960 between India and Pakistan under mediation provided by the World Bank. As a political compromise between Pakistan and India seemed improbable…