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Prime Minister Imran Khan asked the president to dissolve parliament and hold an election after the no-confidence motion against Khan was dismissed. Pakistan’s president has dissolved the National Assembly on
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Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Bajwa took questions from some of the attendees at a security dialogue held recently in Islamabad, and responded to them as a battle-hardened officer, a region’s
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Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam & William T Williams — all of them are key figures in the history of abstraction. The presentation marks the first time the artists’ works will
Gathering for Ramadan for the First Time Since the Pandemic Began: Last week, Maleika Jones was still waiting for a package of Ramadan decorations. In her preparations for the monthlong
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The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. But liberal imperialism gained resilience from its ability to absorb and neutralize objections. Was this part of the
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Peter Conrad at The Guardian: This ingenious final volume of an epic biography illuminates the imagery in the artist’s work during Europe’s war years and his complicated love life. John
Professionally shot videos of elderly villagers preparing, cooking, and serving food to hundreds of people are uploaded to YouTube and watched by 4 million subscribers. It is transforming a remote
Reading Arundhati Roy politically: Some of this ideology one can take; much of it one may leave aside. But that her fiction gives us much insight into her world—the world
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Russia’s foreign minister on Friday praised India’s refusal to condemn the Ukraine invasion, saying Moscow and Delhi would find ways to circumvent “illegal” Western sanctions and continue to trade. India
The propaganda movie, Kashmir Files is out in cinemas all over the world and in the United States. Kashmir Files exceptionalizes the suffering of Kashmiri Pandits at the cost of
The origins of ancient inscriptions are often shrouded in mystery. Writing carved into stone millennia ago can be hard to read and is often missing entire sections of the text.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport on Voting as Public Responsibility at Literary Hub: One hundred percent democracy sounds like a grade someone has achieved in a course—and we would like
Continue readingAn Argument For Compulsory Attendance at the Polls