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By Mahir Ali Working in a Dubai newsroom, one was accustomed to receiving bizarre phone calls on Thursday nights. It was the beginning of the weekend, and in the pre-Internet era there

By MukulKesavan Social media is a spectator sport. More precisely, it’s reality television without the cameras. While the people involved in tweeting or posting on Facebook or Instagramming might well be communicating

By Ayesha Siddiqa Pakistan is on the verge of getting a new prime minister, the cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan. Many of the social media accounts linked with the Pakistan Army are presenting the

By Kumar Ketkar What trick or ‘jumla’ will NarendraModi employ in his final Independence Day speech of this term from the ramparts of the Red Fort? That’s the subject of discussions in

View from Pakistan

By Abdus Sattar Ghazali The Maldives has asked India to withdraw its military choppers and personnel posted in the island as the Indo-Maldives agreement has expired in June 2018. The Maldives’ ambassador

By Syed Ali Mujtaba The ugly face of Hindutva terrorism has once again come to limelight with the arrest of three persons in Maharashtra for conspiring to carry out “terror activities” in

By RASHID AHMAD Pakistan was created, at least in public perception, in the name of Islam. But Islamic parties have never been the first choice of the people of Pakistan in elections.

By Adil Bhat The art of storytelling is an interface with reality that has the power to transform perceptions about people and places. Feroz Rather’s debut novel, The Night of Broken Glass,

By Harris Khalique The biggest irony that marks South Asian Muslim upper and middle classes is their wish to build citadels of righteousness and truth with the bricks of falsehood and intrigue.