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Columns by Basharat Hussain Qizilbash
‘Bhangi’ Pandey
The saga of the so-called first Indian ‘patriot’
The month of May provided an opportunity to reflect on the ‘Indian War of Independence’ against the East India...
Roots of political intolerance
And how it has played out
While the general elections were just a few weeks away, some people thought that these would either be postponed or not...
How India gobbled Kashmir
Nehru and his machinations to keep the valley
An American Professor Christine Fair in the School of Foreign Service at the Georgetown University has recently co-authored an...
Dirty game before partition
The British supported Congress’ united India over League’s Pakistan
Several myths surrounding the partition of India have become common perceptions in the historical discourse. One such myth...
‘Bhutto and the breakup of Pakistan’
A misperception that just stuck
Since 1971, it has become quite customary in Pakistan to discuss the breakup of the country in every December. Often the debate...
Civil-military relations in India
The army remains the final arbiter
Stephen Cohen in his book, ‘The Indian Army’ states that “De Tocqueville and other theorists argued that democracy and a large...
The lopsided narrative
How Indians imagine Pakistan
Even after six decades, the idea of Pakistan continues to elicit new expositions particularly from across the border in India. No matter whether...
A man to respect
The one who could unite the Arabs
“Gamal Abdul Nasser and after” by Professors Doctors Qalb-i-Abid and Massarrat Abid recalls an era when the Egyptian President Nasser...
Challenge to the secularists
Did Quaid really want a secular state?
“The creation of Pakistan” by Inamullah Khawaja revisits an old debate: Was Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah a secular leader or...
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