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Pakistan

Inside Imran’s Anti-Americanism

Sudeep Paul

How a playboy embarked on his quest for an Islamic utopia

The Ball Swings India’s Way

New Delhi keeps away from the turmoil in Pakistan, preferring to watch from a distance the steady ebbing of Islamabad’s strategic clout

Imran Khan: The Reckoning

Imran Khan had one ingrained virtue. He was breathtakingly sincere. But good intentions do not constitute good governance. Like an amateur, he overestimated his abilities when he needed wile or guile as strategy. On his day of judgment, Imran compared his predicament to that of Imam Hussain. The messiah may be faltering, but the messiah complex is alive and well

The Order of the Victim

How the politics of inversion unites Putin and Imran

The Generals and Their Puppet

In November 2021, Imran Khan took a fatal misstep when he thought he could actually pick his own ISI chief

Her Body, Her Choice

Where the hijab is not mandatory—and why

Hijab Row in India: Just Like Us

From the dark years of Zia in Pakistan to the hijab row in India

The Critical Insider

Writer and politician Javed Jabbar tells the tale of his tangled relations with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Benazir Bhutto

A High Wind In the Himalayas

India’s strategic planning must take into account not only the changes thrown into relief by the pandemic but also the interconnectedness of global crises

Dateline History

Tariq Ali reports from the fault lines of Afghanistan to make sense of its current trauma

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