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Robin Wright in The New Yorker: The girls and women of Iran are just bitchin’ brave, flipping the bird at its Supreme Leader in a challenge to one of the most
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Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows for the retention and abuse for colonial frameworks. ‘All Policing is Political’ Zoha Waseem at
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COLOMBO TIMES Reports: An extraordinary gazette notification has been issued bringing the Department for Registration of Persons, the Department of Immigration & Emigration and the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board
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Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa had already warned former prime minister Imran Khan that the PM House is unsafe for talks, former information & broadcast minister,
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On Morten Jerven’s The Wealth and Poverty of African States (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Review by Alden Young in the Phenomenal World: On May 1, 2014, Nigeria’s then-president, Goodluck Jonathan,
Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last week has captured the country’s attention. Amini
Continue readingWhy Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs
After Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, ended a decades-long border conflict, he was heralded as a unifier. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart. Abiy Ahmed won the
Continue readingDid a Nobel Peace Laureate Stoke a Civil War?
BLAST FROM THE PAST: An excerpt from Delhi Jama Masjid Imam’s khutba (speech) in Sep. 2019 -a month earlier PM Narendra Modi gave nod to his government for the illegal
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The Under Secretary of United States State Dept. on Tuesday Sep 20 convened I2U2 counterparts from India, the UAE, and Israel on the margins of the UN Gen. Assembly meeting
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Africa is a region of 1.4 billion people and over 2,000 languages. News, entertainment, and even charity campaigns tend to promote a stereotypical image of Africa that ignores its nuance
Continue readingAfrica is Not a Country. Shift Your Understanding.
Blast from the past (Sept. 2019): Some young ones visited me in Islamabad. They asked me few questions for my views on some matters. There were smiles from them on
Continue readingSep 2019: A Chat on Pakistan Affairs in Urdu (VIDEO)
“Decades of intransigence by big emitters”, particularly Group of 20 members behind climate crisis, according to UN chief Secretary General Antonio Guterres who recently visited Pakistan. In his latest tweet,