Pakistan–India relations
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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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What is Trump doing?
A link to a post on X with four points about what Donald Trump said: that he claimed seven jets were shot down, mimicked an Indian accent, called Indo-Pak tensions…
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Addendum: On Labels, Nations and Misunderstandings
X.T.M adds that Indians and Pakistanis misread each other’s vocabulary and media, with India seeing itself as civilisational and Pakistan as ideological, and argues that curiosity rather than suspicion would…
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Partition Never Ended: We Just Stopped Talking About It
X.T.M argues that the India–Pakistan conflict is also civilisational: each side knows little of the other, with Bollywood and state narratives supplying caricatures, while real conversations across the border turn…
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Pakistani potluck with a dash of politics
After a tense Pakistani potluck over 26/11 and Indian views of Pakistan, the author says he prefers diplomacy to ideology, and argues South Asia should focus on lifting its billion-plus…
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Achhe din has come to…Pakistan
Quoting Pakistan’s economic survey, which reports growth near four per cent and projects seven per cent by 2017, the poster says such gains depend on economic cooperation with India, and…
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“A historic opportunity”
Welcomes Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with Modi in Delhi as an excellent first move, quotes his statement on a historic opportunity, and warns of troublemakers, citing Karzai’s claim about the attack…
