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Ambassador Yusuf Buch: As I See Him
Yusuf Buch, as I see him In search of a genuine intellectual voice PUNCHLINE by ZG Muhammad Some time back, I had written there was no Edward Said on our side. My lament was more out of concern rather than critique. I believe that an intellectually stimulating discourse on Kashmir was missing and so far it had been pathetically routine and blatantly ‘de- intellectualized’ projection of the Kashmir case that had vexed it thus far. I had written … Read entire article »
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In Defence of M.A. Jinnah
Mountbatten, Jinnah and Nehru M. YUSUF BUCH To hold Jinnah “solely responsible” for the Kashmir dispute is, of course, sheer calumny but sentiment and ethics apart, it is also a breathtakingly grotesque contention. From the whole tangle of personalities, Indian, Pakistani or Kashmiri involved in the origination and hardening of the dispute either by commission or by omission, it foists blame on the one whose role was least indictable, indeed most honorable and based on perspicuous judgment. … Read entire article »
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Why I Rebutted Noorani?
Z.G. Muhammad Sitting in the backroom of a shop on the fashionable Residency Road, a “friend” of A.G. Noorani, complained that I and few other columnists were not ‘just and fair’ to author of book, ‘The Kashmir Dispute-1947-2012’. Taking an exception to my column in response to the speech of the octogenarian lawyer and writer at the inaugural function of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Greater Kashmir he was of the view that instead of … Read entire article »
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