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Pakistan; negotiations and operations..and Islamicate rationality
first published in 3qd http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/02/pakistan-negotiations-and-operations-and-islamicate-rationality.html#more by Omar Ali This headline refers to two separate (though distantly related) subjects. First, to Pakistan. Apparently the Pakistani army is now conducting some operation or…
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Playing fields of Peshawar
If the T-emirate were to rule over eastern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan, Peshawar would probably qualify as the capital. Right now as North Waziristan and Khyber Agencies explode in violence,…
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India 2014
Right now the polls say that BJP/NDA will get 200+ seats. As I have noted this (if it actually happens) will be a game-changer because enough opportunists can be purchased…
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Don’t cry for me, Parsi
An old article on how the Vulture Program has been started by the Parsis. Like the vultures on which they once relied, Parsis are disappearing. Their religion, Zoroastrianism, once dominated…
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Iran’s geostrategic importance
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The bounds of decency
It is clear that the Tamil political leadership believes (driven by electoral compulsions) that the LTTE gangsters responsible for the death of Rajiv Gandhi are innocent and should be set…
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Why Islam Haunts India
I’ve been able to get the chapter on India (Iran is the following one). I’ll post it when I get it. It is simply the must-read on geopolitics and the…
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Is Pakistan the reason why India is not yet a Great Power?
I was rifling through Bangkok Airport (which is just amazing) on the long transits back to Africa and I saw George Friedman’s book, the Next 100 Years, which simply seemed…
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Welcome to the newborn (#29)
A new state is officially born as the Telengana bill passes both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The agitation for the separate state was initiated right after independence. In its…
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Adieu to Asia
I’m about to leave Cambodia to head back to Uganda. I’m hoping to share my thoughts as I’ve become a bit of an old hand when it comes to South…