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Pakistan a peacemaker or US puppet in Iran war?
Behind the language of mediation in the US–Iran war lies a familiar pattern of dependency, where Pakistan operates within a framework it does not control.
Babar and Talha Sentencing: A Welcome Anomaly
Asim Qureshi, who knew Talha and Babar personally, writes that their sentences earlier this month went against the grain of what we have come to expect from the War on Terror. In…
Feigning Innocence: The Politics of Demonization
On 16 October 1946, Julius Streicher was Hanged by an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after being convicted for crimes against humanity. Streicher was not a member of the Nazi military and…
Death and Disbelievers
Yes, I know Hitchens has been dead for a while and that this article may seem a tad late (more than a month to be precise!), but since the ‘religious’ community (that…
The New Religion of Globalised Greed [pt1]
The Reign of Corporate Imperialism If one were to correlate the level of media attention with the importance of the subject matter at hand, it would be easy to conclude that the death of…
Manhunt: Comparing the Pursuits of Osama Bin Laden and Ratko Mladic
May 2011 will forever be remembered as the month in which the man deemed responsible for the deaths and suffering of thousands of innocents was assassinated in front of his family by…
Advice to Muslims on the Death of Osama bin Ladin
The killing of Osama bin Ladin, may Allah have mercy on him, if proven to be true, may either be a coincidence or part of a strategic manoeuvre by the US and…