Basharat Hussain Qizilbash

Basharat Hussain Qizilbash

The writer is an academic and journalist. He can be reached at [email protected].

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‘Herod’

The solution for the Muslim peoplesThe traditional Afghan society with a “healthy” produce of “Zealots” rebelled against Amanullah’s “Herodianism” particularly in the fie

Nov 12, 2017
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‘Zealot’

The reactions of the defeated When he failed to defeat the superior Western enemy on his own at one place or time, he tried to forge a united front of the Muslims<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/11/04/zealot/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Nov 4, 2017
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Failure of the League’s leadership

And its long shadow   The Muslim League is well over a century-old political party with several stints in government and opposition. It has had a turbulent political jou

Oct 29, 2017
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Bhutto’s masterstroke

Today, Iran and Saudi Arabia are competing for mastery over the Middle East; in the seventies ZA Bhutto and the Shah of Iran Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi competed for the same. Unlike the cut-

Oct 8, 2017
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The Hindu communal consciousness

Burden of history  Consciousness is the sum total of anxieties, fears, insecurities, desires and psychological wounds. It can also be an interest, concern or awareness shown about so

Oct 1, 2017
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The ‘Other’ in the Gulf

‘Entrenched Hatreds’ These “deep rooted emotions” and “entrenched hatreds” could have withered over timehad the shia minorities been accommodated by the states and societie

Sep 24, 2017
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The ‘Maulana’ who was not ‘azad’

Buried in the sands of time Azad had no roots in the masses and might have ended as an insignificant member of the Congressif Dr Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, who was show-cased as the “Musl

Sep 17, 2017
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Five days and five hours

We have a tendency of not noting important shifts at the right time The “information factories” in Pakistan are working overtime to condemn the US President Donald Trump for criticisi

Sep 10, 2017
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Beware of ‘democracy promotion’!

Games nations play The worst examples of “regime change” in the name of “democracy promotion” have been Iraq and Afghanistan, where the propped up puppet “democratic” regimes have been as bad, if<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/28/beware-of-democracy-promotion-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 28, 2017
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‘Cancer in the belly of India’

The land of Hyderabad The exercise of forcible conversion was accompanied by a process of “shuddhi” (purification) under which not only Hindu idols were placed in hundreds of mosques but captive Muslims were taken<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/08/20/cancer-in-the-belly-of-india/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Aug 20, 2017
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Hurtful truths

Pakistan’s future seems like a spaghetti bowl  What looks likely is that Pakistan’s future will be shaped by its relations with China. What the Pakistani diplomacy could not

Aug 13, 2017