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Asif Ullah KhanThe Diplomat |
A country of India’s size and energy dependence cannot afford to place all its geopolitical bets on one side of a regional divide.
In trying to contain Khan, the system may be unintentionally shaping the very legend it fears.
Minority trust cannot be engineered through stage-managed moments. It grows when institutions behave predictably and fairly to all citizens,...
Tension between traditional spiritual authority and political Hindutva is growing. Religious leaders feel that the government is not sincere about the...
What is missing in both countries is the organized capacity of the majority to force redistribution onto the political agenda.
In a climate of economic and political uncertainty, even a single article in a newspaper with a modest circulation is now viewed as a potential spark...
Appreciation or criticism of a movie is no longer interpreted primarily as an aesthetic or ethical judgment. It has become a marker of allegiance or...
According to a human rights lawyer, the Pakistani army is not interested in securing her release, as that would implicate them in illegal activities...
The exercise has rapidly deteriorated into a pressure cooker of impossible deadlines, sleepless nights, and unchecked administrative coercion, now...
Eliminating the immensely popular leader would not end the crisis; it would unleash one that the Pakistani state may not survive.
Non-citizens, including established ethnic Chinese families, face the downgrade of freehold titles – some inherited over generations – into...