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LOC Violations: Don’t Kill Us For A Sport
Punchline Don’t Kill Us For A Sport Z. G. Muhammad Who named the line dividing Jammu and Kashmir for past seventy years as the bloody line? Google, which responses to commands on smartphones like genies in old films also could not help me in finding an answer. Nonetheless, it is the most appropriate title given to this artificial line dividing not just the territory but the people of the state- dividing a brother from a brother, a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Editor's Take, Kashmir-Talk, Point of view
Book Review: Pakistan Beyond Crisis State By Maleeha Lodhi
It is an extraordinary narrative of resilience. That is how the Pakistan story can be best described. Conjured 63 years back by a man, credited with having “altered the course of history” and having passed through many vicissitudes is confronted with the toughest challenges. During the past few years, writers such as American Stephen Philip Cohen and Indian M.J. Akbar have denounced this country as a failed state. And, some writers, like Bruce Riedel, have gone … Read entire article »
Filed under: Perspectives