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Muhammad Ali Siddiqi

Muhammad Ali Siddiqi

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Fighting terrorism

TERRORISM is as old as war, which means as ancient as the first traces of organised human community. In the middle of the last century, Sindh suffered...

27.04.2024 100

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NON-FICTION: UNDERSTANDING THE PAK-CHINA RELATIONSHIP

Pakistan-China: All-Weather Strategic Partner By Dr Rashid Jamal Loheadab Publications ISBN 978-969-7504-22-0 194pp. The flyleaf of Dr Rashid...

14.04.2024 10

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ESSAY: HITLER, HAROON AND HOLLYWOOD

One of my favourite evergreens I am never tired of reading is John Toland’s 1,400-page biography of Adolf Hitler. With so many biographies and war...

24.03.2024 30

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The Bhutto wound

THE Supreme Court’s March 6 judgement gives valid legal reasons why the trial that led to the verdict ordering Z.A. Bhutto’s execution in 1979 did...

20.03.2024 60

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Nation of soldiers

WITHIN a short time after the founding of Israel, a persecuted people who had never warred became “a nation of soldiers”. As historians Edward...

20.02.2024 60

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NON-FICTION: DURAND’S ‘PERPETUAL AGREEMENT’

Revisiting the Durand Line — Historical and Legal Perspectives  By Lutfur Rehman IPS Press ISBN: 978-969-448-836-3 229pp.   To write his book,...

11.02.2024 10

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In their own words

MARTIN Luther was by any standards a great man. He took on mediaeval Europe’s strongest institution, the papacy, and changed the continent’s...

04.01.2024 100

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Israeli influence

JUST 2.4 million people — five per cent of Shanghai’s population — and a superpower sends two aircraft carriers to threaten them and reassure...

16.12.2023 100

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NON-FICTION: A STRATEGIC TRIANGLE

China-Pakistan-Iran: Trilateral Relations in the Changing World By Raza Ali Khan Paramount Books (Pvt) Ltd. ISBN: 978-627-310-024-1 330pp. As a former...

03.12.2023 30

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Villain of the piece

A news item in Dawn’s issue of Oct 13 wasn’t really needed. It informed the readers that Britain had decided to send two naval ships and...

28.11.2023 100

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NON-FICTION: ISKANDER MIRZA’S VERSION

Iskander Mirza: Pakistan’s First Elected President’s Memoirs from Exile Compiled and edited by Syed Khawar Mehdi Lightstone Publishers ISBN:...

22.10.2023 20

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The worm turns

THE Palestinians cannot be called worms. They aren’t oil-rich. They have proved repeatedly they are made of sterner stuff. What they did on Oct 7...

18.10.2023 80

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Jinnah was Jinnah

IF Lord Mountbatten called Jinnah “psychopathic”, one could understand: Jinnah had hurt his royal ego by denying him the pleasure of being the...

11.09.2023 200

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