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By M Zafar Khan Safdar Back in 2013, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was protesting the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) rigging. The latter had emerged victorious after receiving the highest number of votes

By Jawed Naqvi A photo shopped picture of Imran Khan has adorned my Facebook page for the last few weeks, which I am planning to remove. The frame is an election-time caricature

By Raza Naeem Maulvi Barkatullah Bhopali, who was born 159 years ago on the 7th of July earlier this month, was a glorious standard-bearer of the Indian independence movement. He toured Great

By Ali Ahmed There are two possibilities prompting the Modi government’s slew of potentially disastrous ideas. One is that the ruling party panicked under increasing opposition and wanted to reassure its base

By Sunanda K Datta Ray No one can really fault the concept of a National Register of Citizens. It’s the use to which the document, officially released by the Assam government on

By Zaigham Khan The Messiah has arrived. How long will it take us now to have our utopia? The promised utopia is not only moral, of the kind that religious messiahs promise.

By Christophe Jaffrelot, Gilles Verniers The BJP’s decision not to field any Muslim candidates aims to liberate the party entirely from the “Muslim vote” that it accuses other parties of wooing for

By Bilal Ahmad Naik August 2016. The whole valley presents a gloomy look and our village is no exception to it. Tens of people have been killed, hundreds injured and many blinded

By Mudasir Sheikh The recorded monetary history has always witnessed a fierce battle for survival between money and currency but the currency has always failed and money has emerged as a winner.

By M.K. Bhadrakumar Circumstantial evidence can be marshalled to establish that a level playing field was not available to Pakistan’s two mainstream political parties – the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the