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Are Pakistanis Really More Moderate Than Indians

04.06.2025 40

The Friday Times

Yasser Latif Hamdani

Jinnah, Congress, And The Truth About India's Partition

12.03.2025 10

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

Coexistence Of Hindus And Muslims. What Did The Muslim League Actually Say?

Critics of the idea of Pakistan, and in particular the Two-Nation Theory, say that the All India Muslim League postulated that Hindus and Muslims...

02.11.2024 10

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

Qazi Faez Isa And Islam - Part II

Read the first part of ' Qazi Faez Isa And Islam' here. When Qazi Faez Isa became the Chief Justice of Pakistan, I wrote a piece here in which I...

18.10.2024 2

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

What Jinnah Really Said About A Federal Constitutional Court

A few days ago the chief of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, posted on the social media site 'X' (formerly known as...

16.10.2024 5

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

From 295-A To 295-C: The Evolution Of Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws

In the early 20th century, Punjab had been the hotbed of 'pamphlet wars' between Hindus and Muslims. Things took a drastic turn with the...

08.10.2024 4

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

Revisiting Faisal Devji's 'Muslim Zion'

I read with interest Professor Faisal Devji's response here  to a review in Dawn of his classic  Muslim Zion . When it came out ten years ago, I...

04.10.2024 60

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

Jinnah In Bangladesh

Much has been written about the commemoration of Mr Jinnah's death anniversary in Bangladesh on September 11 this year. Mr Jinnah was the...

19.09.2024 1

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

50 Years On: Revisiting The Second Amendment

Today marks 50 years of a continuing crime against humanity that Pakistan’s unthinking Parliament unleashed on an already divided population. It is...

07.09.2024 1

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Yasser Latif Hamdani

The Supreme Court's Capitulation

“If we are going to allow ourselves to be influenced by the public opinion that can be created in the name of religion when we know that religion...

24.08.2024 20

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Yasser Latif Hamdani