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View Point: No Lessons Learnt

View Point: No lessons learnt

Whosoever said "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" obviously did not realise that some, such as our rulers, cannot learn even from current history to…

The Cultured 500

The cultured 500

Politics is an important site where different forces struggle to find a role in the power structure of state and society. Since politics is a collective activity, anything that broadens…

Does Pakistan Have Friends?

Does Pakistan have friends?

Umberto Eco – the Italian novelist, essayist and literary critic – is amongst the most engaging and inventive writers alive today. An original thinker par excellence, his latest collection of…

Possible Key To A Different Iran

Possible key to a different Iran

There is something slightly surreal about the victory of the only cleric among Iran’s six presidential candidates being greeted as a moderate triumph and a sign of hope on a…

Secular Stirrings

Secular stirrings

It was a strange coincidence. Just as Islamist scholars from Turkey were claiming at seminars in Pakistan that the militant form of secularism had been done away in their country,…

Tehran’s Change Of Guard

Tehran’s change of guard

Post-revolutionary Iran’s 11th presidential election, scheduled for June 14, will be watched around the world for a variety of reasons. Among these is the fact that Iran is one of…

Rally, Faith, & Ideology

Rally, faith, & ideology

Since October 30, 2011, the organic sprouting has been replaced by synthetic organisation. The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI)  is no more the romantic idea which drew men, women and families to…

A Touch Of Art

A touch of art

Recently, writer and scholar Reza Aslan stopped off in Washington to promote, an anthology of 20th-century writings in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu that articulate the experience of colonialism. When…