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When liberals opposed progressives
At the time of the partition, State opposed the CPI inspired progressives. Liberals too rebelled against them.
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Why our bomb may be unsafe
The weapon of choice for al Qaeda to avoid ‘regime-change’ will be the nuclear weapons of Pakistan.
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Religion without ethic
There is little consciousness of ethic in us because of the way we understand religion, which ties ethics to piety.
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Husain Haqqani versus Pak Army
Haqqani didn’t think well of the army. Let us see what his book, Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, contains.
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The Greek drachma and our dirham
With Greece about to suffer its biggest crisis, it contemplates abandoning the Euro for its former currency drachma.
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Romance of wandering ‘jugni’
Jugni is a presiding genius of sorts. But what explains its peripatetic or wandering nature?
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Do leaders need to have ‘vision’?
Why does vision at times become the difference for us between a great leader and an ordinary one?
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Words from Eid
One would be surprised to know that we use words related to ‘Eid’ every day in Urdu.
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Why Muslim states fail
In Europe, when a dictator quits, civilisation takes over & state survives. No such thing happens in the Muslim world.
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What is ‘national interest’?
It is pragmatism in state conduct coming close to providing theoretical basis for understanding conduct of weak state.