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Ejaz Haider

The Friday Times

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HOW TO COUNTER THE INSURGENCIES

HOW TO COUNTER THE INSURGENCIES

In the wake of near daily attacks on security forces and civilians in Balochistan and KP, it is evident that Pakistan needs to reassess its strategy...

30.03.2025 50

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Ejaz Haider

UKRAINE, NATO AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

The spectacle of the verbal spat between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky in

16.03.2025 100

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Trump Set Up Zelenskyy For What Happened At Oval

01.03.2025 8

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Ejaz Haider

TRUMP’S NEO-COLONIAL FANTASY IN GAZA

In a series of inflammatory statements, US President Donald Trump has proposed a ‘radical reimagining’ of Gaza — one that

16.02.2025 20

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Is PTI Challenging The State Or The Government?

31.01.2025 4

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Is Trump Different From Other Presidents? Yes And No

21.01.2025 4

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Strategic Chaos: Trump’s Unconventional Foreign Policy Playbook

16.01.2025 10

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THE DURAND LINE AND AFGHANISTAN

The recent strikes by Pakistan on TTP sanctuaries inside Afghanistan have inflamed Afghan rhetoric once again about sovereignty.

13.01.2025 100

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Ejaz Haider

THE DURAND LINE AND AFGHANISTAN

The recent strikes by Pakistan on Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan sanctuaries inside Afghanistan have inflamed Afghan rhetoric once

12.01.2025 20

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Ejaz Haider

Jonathan Finer’s Less-Than-Fine Moment

On December 18, the United States Department of State announced that the US had sanctioned four Pakistani entities, including the National...

21.12.2024 7

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Ejaz Haider

Zionists and Salafis Join to Kill the Palestinian Cause

In April 1904, famous English geographer, theorist, politician and diplomat, Sir Halford Mackinder writing in The Geographical Journal, presented...

09.12.2024 4

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Ejaz Haider

Let’s Restore People’s Electoral Verdict Before It’s Too Late 

For Imran Khan’s dedicated workers, what is happening in Islamabad is all about Khan. He has been wronged, ousted through a conspiracy, and...

26.11.2024 5

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Ejaz Haider

WHAT DOES TRUMP 2.0 MEAN FOR THE WORLD?

Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and he is...

17.11.2024 4

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WHAT DOES TRUMP 2.0 MEAN FOR THE WORLD?

PROLOGUE Donald Trump is back, only the second American president after Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897) to win non-consecutive terms, and...

17.11.2024 10

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The Race is Tied and America is in Trepidation Mode

By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...

05.11.2024 10

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The Race is Tied And Aaerica is in Trepidation Mode

By the time this appears, voters in the United States will be headed to the polls. At last count, 82 million votes had already been cast, a little...

05.11.2024 2

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HOW THE US SUSTAINS ISRAEL’S WAR CRIMES

“For generations to come, all will be told of the miracle of the immense planes from the United States bringing in the materiel that meant life to...

03.11.2024 30

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Of Wars and Innovation

Scholars and policymakers have been vexed over the question of how wars can be prevented. Political scientist James D Fearon went looking for...

31.10.2024 10

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Ejaz Haider

26th Amendment: Using Parliament to Debase the Constitution

PREAMBLE On July 24, 2023, Israel’s Knesset passed a controversial bill to strip their highest court of the power to declare government decisions...

23.10.2024 4

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Israel is Likely Planning Internal Strife in Iran

There’s much speculation about how and when Israel will respond to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attacks at three military targets in Israel....

17.10.2024 2

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THE DARK HEART OF ZIONISM

“Listen up — there’s no war that will end all wars…War is a perfect, self-contained being.” — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore “On...

13.10.2024 10

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Preventing Covert Ops Requires Smart Counterintelligence

At around 3.30 pm local time in southern Lebanon, the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh and eastern Bekaa Valley — Hezbollah strongholds —...

18.09.2024 4

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The 'Constitutional Package' is Dirty Politics Cloaked in Legislation 

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these...

16.09.2024 10

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Basic Guidelines for Doing COIN/CT Properly 

Former Lieutenant-General Tariq Khan has recently penned a short piece on counterinsurgency, which needs serious reading and discussion. A word...

07.09.2024 3

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An Open Letter to the Prime Minister on Balochistan

Dear Mr Prime Minister,  I am taking the presumption of penning this letter in regard to the recent upsurge in violence in Balochistan. I realise...

02.09.2024 5

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Tired Cliches Won’t Improve Balochistan

The harrowing details of another terrible day in Balochistan are known by now so I will eschew them. I want instead to focus on the timing and...

27.08.2024 5

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Ejaz Haider

The Rot Is Systemic. Hameed Is Just One Manifestation Of It

Since the arrest of Faiz Hameed, former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, we are witnessing a circus which is both amusing...

23.08.2024 4

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Unpacking Netanyahu’s Diabolical Strategy

As the Gaza ceasefire talks enter the second day in Doha, the situation in the Middle East remains ripe for an impending vertical escalation...

16.08.2024 4

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Justice Should go Beyond Hameed

Former Lieutenant-General Faiz Hameed, also a former Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, is in military custody since August...

14.08.2024 2

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Netanyahu Wants a War; Iran Might Just be Poised to Give it to Him

On June 28, 1914, as Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie passed through a street in Sarajevo, a small group of Serbian...

04.08.2024 2

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Ejaz Haider

After Haniyeh, Top Israeli Officials Should be Fair Game

On April 10, the second day of Eid al-Fitr, an Israeli drone struck a car in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza carrying three sons and four...

31.07.2024 3

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Is the World Sleepwalking into Major Wars?

In a joint statement on July 10, Washington and Berlin indicated that beginning 2026 the United States will start “episodic deployments of the...

29.07.2024 3

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Goldilocks’ Dilemma of State-Society Relations

Fifteen years before the failed Europeans revolutions of 1848, a small group of German students, artists and workers seeking to unite Germanic...

24.07.2024 2

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Ejaz Haider

SHOULD PAKISTAN TRADE WITH INDIA?

PROLOGUE On January 16, 2023, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sat down with the Dubai-based television channel, Al Arabiya and, among other issues,...

21.07.2024 20

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