At the Mumbai launch of Jaswant Singh’s much-publicised book, Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence, on Tuesday, commentators and political historians tried to dissect the real Jinnah. And they ended up analysing the real Jaswant too.
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It’s late morning and Minara Khatoon’s five young children haven’t eaten yet. They sit huddled on the dirt floor of their mud thatch hut, waiting as their mother stokes a makeshift fire with straw and dry leaves to prepare what will be...
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The dancing girls of Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, are on strike in protest against the tide of Talibanisation that is threatening to destroy an art form that has flourished since the Mughal empire.The strike, which is supported by the...
Indian accusations of a Pakistani hand in last week’s Mumbai massacre couldn’t have come at a worse time for the government in Islamabad: As a Taliban insurgency continues to simmer in the tribal areas along the Afghan border, clashes on...
I think that India and other “friendly” countries should now wakeup and realize that terrorism and terrorists do not have borders.A terror attack may or may not have initiated from some remote part of Pakistan’s soil but that definitely does not...
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has called for a new strategy in Afghanistan to deny militants bases across the border in Pakistan.
Following is the summary, as translated from Urdu and posted on the Dawn website, of the speech Pervez Musharraf delivered Monday announcing his resignation as Pakistan’s president:President Pervez Musharraf began his address to the nation at 13.13...
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