Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
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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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Pakistan Crisis: The Arrest of Imran Khan
A BrownCast in which the host and Maneesh discuss the arrest of Imran Khan, giving background to the crisis, what is happening now and what to expect, with links to…
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Guest Post: Ali Minai Looks at the Last Days of Imran Khan
Guest author Ali Minai argues that the opposition’s no-confidence move against Imran Khan made little political sense, and that Khan missed at least three chances to win the larger game,…
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Imran Khan Phenomenon; My Prediction in 2011
Omar Ali reposts his 2011 profile of Imran Khan, written for 3 Quarks Daily, and says it was not far wrong. It describes Khan’s early struggle to turn cricketing fame…
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General Bajwa, please retire
Republished from 2019, the post argues that General Bajwa’s army-chief extension crowns a tenure of rolled-back civil liberties and media freedom, and that Imran Khan’s government abandoned its governing responsibilities…
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On Being Hindu in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Commenting on halted construction of an Islamabad Hindu temple, Razib Khan argues the objection fits historical Islamic norms of tolerating but not encouraging minorities, and that Hinduism is seen as…
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What the f*ck is Pakistan/PTI doing
Reacting angrily to a Facebook post about the PTI government’s agenda for Pakistani television drama, the poster calls it self-destructive and says a culture that defames martyrs to freedom such…
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Lazy Sunday – Pakistan has the best looking leader in the world now
A Sunday roundup of links on Imran Khan and Raza Rumi’s new book, with the author’s views on Pakistan’s leader, optics and hijab, a claim that Indira Gandhi was the…
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Pakistan General Elections 2018 – The Silver Linings:
Reproduces a friend’s Facebook list of silver linings from Pakistan’s 2018 election, including a Shia candidate’s inclusive campaign, the first Hindu elected to a general seat, PTM leaders winning seats…
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Captain Pakistan and the Faustian Pact
In seven points on Pakistan’s 2018 election, the author argues Imran Khan has made a Faustian bargain with the army, grants vote fudging but welcomes democracy taking seed and the…
