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Inspiring Change

BY LYDIA JAMES When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery City in 1955, at the height of racial...

‘Akhand Bharat Ki Tehreek Pakistan Sey Chal Rahi Hai’

BY AAKAR PATEL For someone who speaks a lot, Narendra Modi reveals very little about his actual views. He has preferred not to be interviewed...

Atheist Ghazi

BY NASEER AHMED I was among a privileged few friends a self-proclaimed atheist invited to his wedding. The groom was ready to board a vehicle...

Tebbit Test as India’s Law of the Land

BY SHEKHAR GUPTA Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his residence, that...

Strangled By the Good Taliban-Bad Taliban Noose

BY ABBAS NASIR WHEN Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan makes statements such as a “majority of Taliban” are pro-Pakistan and pro-peace, who’d be surprised to find...

Netanyahu’s Anti-Iran, Anti-BDS Rant in US

BY DR LUDWIG WATZAL Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave one of his typical speeches at this year’s AIPAC convention in Washington. Before he delivered his usual...

Why Supporting Pak is Fun

BY ADITYA IYER Pakistan zindabad. There, I said it. Now sue me. Or do whatever you deem is right, just like you labelled those Kashmiri...

West’s Mad Remix of West Asia

BY ROBERT FISK Borders are becoming a bit odd in the Middle East. They always have been, of course. Ever since Mark Sykes and François...

Pakistan’s Bazaar Movement of 1977

BY TARIQ MAHMUD The month of March is a grim reminder of the events of 1977, which, in the ultimate, changed the course of the...

India: Driving into Disaster

BY PRAFUL BIDWAI ‘Scorched earth’ is the kindest phrase to describe the approach of the last budget (rather, vote-on-account) of India’s United Progressive Alliance in...

An Earth Rights Law

BY BRIAN LOFFLER Once in a lifetime a truly game-changing event reshapes global society. Think back to 1833 when the British Parliament finally bowed to...

An Outcast in India, Pak History

BY JAWED NAQVI India’s feisty Dalit leader Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar scarcely finds place in our historical consciousness, having been airbrushed from much of the discourse...

Did Pak Need the US, or Vice Versa?

  BY SHAHID JAVED BURKI Pakistan, ever reliant on external financial assistance, faces a very different international situation as the government headed by Prime Minister Nawaz...

Welcome to Wonderland

BY FARHANA QAZI Visiting Kashmir was like slipping down the rabbit hole. Like Alice, who was surprised by talking birds and beasts in Wonderland, I...

Fallacious ‘Choice’ Argument in GM Crops Issue

BY COLIN TODHUNTER There is currently a battle waging across the planet over genetically modified (GM) crops. It seems like not a month goes by...

Entitlement by Privilege of Wealth

BY URVASHI BUTALIA My office is located in an urban village in the heart of Delhi. Originally surrounded by fields where people grew crops, these...

Dealing With Energy-Drainers

BY JUGGUN KAZIM There are times when just about anyone will drain your energy - a friend going through a divorce or a career crisis,...

Playing Russian Roulette in Ukraine

BY MUNIR AKRAM Europe and the United States have successfully encouraged a revolt against Viktor Yanukovych, the inept and corrupt, but elected, Russian-oriented president of...

Islamic Scholar Who Laments Loss of Pluralism in Arab World

BY ROBERT FISK Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps...

INDO-PAK NUCLEAR CBMS

BY ALI AHMED A new study 'Nuclear Famine: Two Billion People at Risk?’ conducted by the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War along...

Mother Tongue

BY JO LATEU Whatever your memories of your school days – and let’s face it, for most of us, they were not ‘the best years...

India’s Power Pyramid

Titled The Saint and The Doctor, Arundhati Roy’s introduction to a new, annotated edition of Dr. B R Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is an...

Flickering Hopes for a Syrian Future

BY VIJAY PRASHAD In late February, Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner General of UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with the welfare of the Palestinians, visited...

A Dynast Who Chose Not to Be

BY NIRUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the former President of Sri Lanka, has among her photographs a collector’s item taken when she was an 11-year-old...

North’s Weird Winter and Climate Change

BY FRED PEARCE Scientists are trying to understand if the unusual weather in the Northern Hemisphere this winter - from record heat in Alaska to...

Origins of Militancy

BY KHURRAM HUSAIN THE strong demands for military action against the TTP have put one party and its position regarding militancy in a tight spot. The...

Morality and Money

BY CHRIS COLTRANE At the end of last year, the BBC’s Panorama programme revealed that anti-poverty charity Comic Relief had invested millions of dollars in...

Omar and the Checkpoint

By Ramzy Baroud Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez...

Resource Curse and Extractive Economics

BY WAYNE ELLWOOD Say what you will about the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez; he had chutzpah. What better place to a make a point...

Dilemma of Democracy

BY M ZIAUDDIN I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it. —Voltaire This has been the dilemma...

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