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Daughter’s tribute

Daughter’s tribute

ALL daughters love their fathers. No wonder, ‘A Daughter’s Tribute’ should be the finest chapter in Haji Sir...

27.04.2025 90

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The accord hoax

If the PA and Hamas are kept out of Palestine, who else is going to manage Gaza?

08.04.2025 50

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NON-FICTION: RECORDING FOR POSTERITY

While sometimes dated, journalist Zahid Hussain’s collection of 39 interviews with people who mattered at the time, provides...

23.02.2025 9

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Of Arab League

The Jewish soldiers in the Allied armies did what was obvious.

21.02.2025 50

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Self-indictment

To what extent should Pakistan be blamed for its poor financial situation?

20.01.2025 70

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Small and great

WITH the exception of a handful of countries, this world is ruled by small people. There is no great man in sight. In America, Richard Nixon was...

28.12.2024 6

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ESSAY: WARS AND WORDS

The Ramazan war Unlike Abba Eban’s My People, Howard M. Sachar’s book A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time has a restricted...

15.12.2024 10

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Jabalia death march

IT will live in history: the Jabalia death march. As reported by Al Jazeera, the fleeing Palestinians were carrying white flags while going through...

03.11.2024 5

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Genocide in Gaza

THE motto of the Israeli Defence (IDF), according to its website, is: “Defence is our mission, security is our goal.”One wonders what the...

07.10.2024 20

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Baloch quagmire

OF all the sense and nonsense spoken about the Balochistan situation, two statements stand out: Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti’s truth about the...

21.09.2024 60

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ESSAY: FROM TRAITOR TO GHAZI

One of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s earliest biographies in a European language was in Spanish by Jorge Blanco Villalta. I have its English translation,...

15.09.2024 3

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NON-FICTION: A BUREAUCRAT WRITES BACK

“Dear Mr Jinnah” — 70 Years in the Life of a Pakistani Civil Servant By Salman Faruqui Lightstone Publishers ISBN: 978-969-716-282-6 429pp....

04.08.2024 2

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