Pakistan
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Izzat Maxing
X.T.M answers Q’s claim that India–Pakistan wars will stay short, arguing that allies matter only for the fifth day. He tests this against 1971, Kargil, Operation Sindoor and the Gulf…
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A Pakistani Hindu is not content but is Content
X.T.M argues that social media rewards rarity: a Hindu in Pakistan or a Jew in Iran becomes a story, while the same people in India or Israel are absorbed into…
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The Peshawar Review
X.T.M lists the contents of the October issue of The Peshawar Review, including pieces by Anjum Altaf on September Eleven and Harbans Mukhia’s memoir of Dr K. M. Ashraf, and…
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The iPhone, Babur & are sons sold in shops?
A Dalit with an iPhone 16 has purchasing power, not the end of caste. And a Turkic sword at the birth of Indo-Islam is not a claim over South Asian…
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The Gender Protocol Has Teeth
X.T.M announces that a commenter, KB, has been fined 20 comments under the Gender Protocol for remarks about a Pakistani female politician that the admins describe as misogynistic. The post…
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Pakistan Punches Above Its Weight. Blame Aligarh.
X.T.M asks how Pakistan produces so much culture for its income, crediting Lucknow and Aligarh rather than Bollywood. In his account the Urdu-speaking salariat carried that culture west in 1947,…
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Pakistan Has a Dosa and Nobody Told You
“We Saraiki people make dosa,” my Urdu teacher told me. “We have a name for it: chilla.” A rice batter spread on a tawa and eaten with winter saag, in…
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Tariq Ali on the Resistance..
Omar Ali reposts a mock press release he says he wrote over twenty years ago, forecasting an Islamic-socialist revolution in Pakistan, as a comment on a recent tweet by Tariq…
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In Remembrance of Shaheed Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, Bir Uttam (My Cousin Nishat Bhai):
A tribute, headed “by Shawkat”, to Lt. Ashfaqus Samad, a Dhaka University student who became one of the first guerrillas in Dhaka and was killed in action in the 1971…
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How Pakistan Became South Asia’s Reference Muslims
X.T.M argues that Partition cut one Muslim political world into three, and that Pakistan, having taken Urdu, now supplies the default picture of a South Asian Muslim. He calls this…
