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Civil war?

People like Payton Gendron, Dylann Roof, Patrick Wood Crusius and Robert Bowers all clearly think they are engaged in a civil war of a sort. Their acts of racist and…

American (un)civil war

There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that ‘another civil war is likely’ compared…

Looming Afghan civil war

WITH the revival of armed regional militias to stop the Afghan Taliban offensive, Afghanistan is edging towards a new civil war. Headed by old mujahideen warlords, these armed bands are…

A Civil War?

A civil war?

Pakistan has slipped into a civil war without quite realising how it happened and where it will end. An imported and assiduously pedalled dogma, but now nurtured within, has petrified…

The Fog Of Civil War

The fog of civil war

The veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi began his Syrian peace mission on a sombre note this week, having previously described his chances of success as negligible. He wasn’t being unduly…

Towards A Quasi Military-civilian Regime

Towards a quasi military-civilian regime

he prime minister is embroiled in a crisis every other day as real power slips away from him and shifts to a powerful and consistent space-grabber. Are we witnessing a…

Civilians In The War Zone

Civilians in the war zone

We are constantly being exhorted to treat the war on terror as our own war and not theirs (the Americans’). We are told to own it. From that one deduces…

Civilian Cost Of War

Civilian cost of war

Jan Mohammed, from Bajaur, lost his young daughter during Pakistani military operations last year. “In the evening, artillery started raining shells on the mountains … one of the shells landed…