Imran Khan
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Regency, Not Rupture in Pakistan (Open Thread)
Open thread: X.T.M reads interior minister Mohsin Naqvi’s claim that Pakistan’s governance system has collapsed as a sign the army needs no coup, arguing that the Twenty-Seventh Amendment already makes…
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The Prussia of the Ummah
Building on RNJ’s comment that Munir’s consolidation makes a second Pahalgam unlikely, the post argues Pakistan’s army-led settlement is not a pause before collapse but a durable hybrid regime, ‘the…
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Bangladesh Election Open Thread
Bangladesh election open thread. The opening comment asks how the vote can be fair with the Awami League banned, compares it to Pakistan’s democracy with Imran Khan jailed, and calls…
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Open Thread (Birthday)
Open thread opening with Imran Khan’s sons describing his prison conditions as awful, a question on Pakistani nationalism and Indophilia, and X.T.M’s birthday news, travel and the second viral BRAHM…
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Imran Khan – open thread
Open thread opening with X.T.M’s reaction to a rumour that the Pakistani military killed Imran Khan in jail, which he says would make Khan a martyr greater than Zulfikar Ali…
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Wag the dog?
Playing devil’s advocate, the author argues that Pakistanis blame the military establishment for every failure, citing the false claim that half the budget goes to the army, and says that…
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Pakistan’s Inner Logic
The author argues that Pakistan is feudal and class-bound, that caste persists though denied, and that the postcolonial state never had a leftist rupture. He suggests Pakistanis seem happier because…
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💔Sana Yusuf Did Not Have to Die
After the murder of TikTok creator Sana Yusuf in Karachi, X.T.M argues that violence against women in Pakistan is an outcome of a society built on honour and male entitlement,…
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An Electoral Earthquake in Pakistan
Omar Ali reads Pakistan’s February 2024 election as a shock to the army, which he says engineered Imran Khan’s rise in 2018 and removal in 2021, and credits Khan with…
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Browncast: Election Time in Pakistan
A BrownCast in which the host and Maneesh Taneja talk informally about Pakistan’s upcoming elections and the general situation there, ending with Imran Khan’s latest conviction for marrying before the…
