NED: The Legal Window of the CIA
By Thierry Meyssan: For 30 years, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been sub-contracting the legal part of illegal CIA operations. Without rousing suspicions, it has put in place
The ‘Pretty Woman’ Syndrome
LT COL (r) NASIR BAIG: Khan Sahib I have narrated it many a times before as well, how I have been your fan since my childhood, as a cricketer, as
Did Don Quixote Long For Muslim Spain?
Don Quixote is the Saturday Night Live of the Spanish Inquisition. Cervantes roasts everybody, including the Catholic Church and even the reader. This magnum opus—called by many the first Western novel—is really a
India and Pakistan can achieve peace ‘by pieces’
Kanti Bajpai in This Week in Asia has peddled geo-economy first and geopolitics later between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan, who have gone to wars on the Kashmir dispute at
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Should Pakistan be ruled by NSC followed by a Presidential system?
Editor’s Note: The following article by Mr. Tariq Khan discusses structural and institutional problems which in his view are facing Pakistan and suggests possible solutions. Governance, Political Order and National
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In Pakistan Some Extremisms are Worth Strengthening
BY JAVED JABBAR: My first article published on November 1, 2021, juxtaposed “moderate” with “Pakistan.” That probably raised some skeptical eyebrows — until the text was read. This second contribution’s
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AFGHANISTAN: Unexpected Outcome
BY BABAR CHEEMA: A total and comprehensive victory for America in Afghanistan would have been an unmitigated disaster for Pakistan. It would have created a situation where America would have
Pardoning the turkey in Abhinandan Knighthood
IRSHAD SALIM: South Asian diaspora included, the subcontinental milieu witnessed start of a surreal Thanksgiving weekend with a video news in the Tropic of Cancer region. Seen sitting on the
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Muslims Came to America More Than a Century Before Protestants
MOHAMMED KHAKU: There is numerous contemporary mix of truth and falsehood in history about the “First” Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts. So, should American Muslims celebrate or mourn on this day?
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Eid Mubarak Special: FOUR Videos
‘A Bull in a China Shop’ is a person who breaks things or who often makes mistakes or causes damage in situations that require careful thinking or behavior. A cow
OPINION: The Graceless Censure of Joe Biden
FRANK BRUNI in The New York Times: Joe Biden is only the second Catholic president in American history. You would think that the church’s leaders in the United States would
Dhaka Insight 1 of Many: Sixteen Points to Ponder
It was a win-win for both: PPP in West Pakistan and Awami League in East Pakistan. The two needed a fall guy and a bogey man to make it (power
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