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The 12-day Iran-Israel war

The 12-day war between Iran and Israel must have convinced the Iranian regime that only in the possession of a nuclear bomb lies the security and...

15.07.2025 60

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

The four-day Indo-Pak spat

Five weeks after the Indo-Pak confrontation, although hostilities have come to an end, the pit and cauldron of doubt and antagonism continues to...

24.06.2025 30

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Relevance of 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals' by Chomsky

In a 1962 article Chomsky wrote that those with knowledge and influence must use their intellect to challenge falsehoods and reveal the truth....

12.06.2025 50

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Are we intrinsically messianists and anti-democratic?

Why is there a craving for millennialism, messianism or in simple words the desire for a strong deliverer, a crusader…a Charalamaigne, Napoleon,...

16.12.2024 3

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Are regional languages slowly becoming extinct?

Pashto and other regional languages may appear to be thriving with millions speaking it as their mother tongue, but there is another more important...

08.12.2024 3

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Fortuitous patterns

A revisitation to Tapestries (Dr Amjad Hussain: 2021) takes us on a chef d'ouvre, enveloping the drama of a life, from infancy through education up...

21.11.2024 10

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

A tear on stone impressed

Voltaire upheld reason rejecting arbitrariness. He refuted the belief that events in time and history – the cosmos, culture, language, wars,...

05.11.2024 3

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

False realities, forbidden histories and intellectuals

The 12th August 1948 Babarra massacre is by now a forgotten yet an essential part of our national past as are the cold blooded elimination of the...

26.10.2024 4

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Elitism, cultist autocratic populism and threats to democracy

We always, more often than not, fall into the inevitable trap of confusing the forest for the trees; the peremptory for the permanent, the...

18.10.2024 4

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

US presidential election 2024 and political violence

Those who think the 2024 US Presidential Election will be vastly different from the one in the past in terms of virulent polarisation and distinct...

11.10.2024 5

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Deception & disinformation in political, social universe

The democracy of yore was infused with a commitment to values of truth, human freedom and rights and social welfare. Abraham Lincoln, one of the...

24.09.2024 4

The Express Tribune

Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Gramsci and Barnays: common sense and its insidious manipulation

Antonio Gramsci, one of the key Marxists of the 20th century, in his Prison Notebooks (1929) writes: "Central to the concept of Common Sense is...

15.09.2024 1

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Iqbal: the principle of movement in Islam

Of the seven lectures that Dr Allama Iqbal delivered in Muslim congregations in Madras, Hyderabad and Aligarh in the late 1920s and which were...

02.09.2024 4

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Poor government, rich inegalitarian society

There is so much that is dichotomous and contradictory in society and the economy. Despite backbreaking inflation there is no shortage of goods, be...

23.08.2024 4

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Authoritarian populism and amygdala hijack

Living creatures evolved over 4. 5 billion years with two basic impulses: survival and procreation in response to external threat. Resultantly, the...

13.08.2024 3

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor

Security state and rentier economy

A security state is one which perceives a threat to its national survival or danger to its sovereign existence resulting in a preponderant...

30.07.2024 10

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Sahibzada Riaz Noor