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The Raj With a New Flag: Gandhi and the Inherited State
Gandhi built India’s nation; the Raj built its state. Pakistan’s Afghan strikes, Delhi’s protest ban and the RBI rate rise show that inherited state at work.
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Pakistan must not treat Afghanistan like Gaza
X.T.M argues that Pakistan’s strike on a Kabul addiction hospital, which Taliban authorities say killed 408, echoes Gaza in its asymmetry of suffering. He accepts that TTP attacks are real…
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Open Thread – “Open War” breaks out between Pakistan and Afghanistan
Open Thread on open war between Pakistan and Afghanistan: Pakistani airstrikes on Kabul and Kandahar followed Taliban attacks on border posts on the Durand Line, with the question of where…
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Epstein in Peshawar: Not a Financier, Not Just a Predator
X.T.M reads a 2013 Jeffrey Epstein email from Peshawar as a field report on tribal and official contacts and polio funding. He argues it shows Epstein as an access broker…
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The growing Pakistan-Afghan Conflict. What next?
The author asks where Pakistan goes next as the Durand Line dispute and the TTP insurgency escalate. He argues that Pakistani military superiority may not decide a mountain insurgency, and…
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Pakistan vs Tehreek e Taliban, Dr Hamid Hussain’s view
Posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain’s analysis of Pakistan’s possible rapprochement with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan is followed by a later exchange with a British analyst and a Pakistani army officer’s…
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Major Amin; a few words on Pakistan, Afghanistan and China
Omar Ali’s update interview with Major Amin on Pakistan, Afghanistan and China, redone in a more sober tone at the Major’s request after a first take in which he expressed…
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Afghan Chaos. Dr Hamid Hussain’s view..
In correspondence posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain discusses the regional risks of chaos in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal. Omar notes he hopes for peace somewhat more than Major…
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Spoils of War; The Aircraft of the Afghan Air Force
Posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain argues that fears over the Taliban gaining Afghan Air Force aircraft are exaggerated: they fought a small-scale, hit-and-run insurgency, while the US built the…
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The Afghan National Army
In correspondence posted by Omar Ali, Hamid Hussain asks whether the Afghan National Army can be resurrected and whether unemployed soldiers might join the war economy, tracing its history from…
