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    Making a socially just world requires much more than condemning oppressors and crying with the oppressed. (Representational image: Mahmud Hams /Pool Photo via AP, File)Opinion
    Pervez Hoodbhoy | Why are Arabs powerless? It's not guns; ideas rule...

    In a nutshell, imperialist conquests showed that brains would rule over brawn: a stark truth that got still starker with...

    1 Jun 2021 7:30 AM IST

    Surely its time to recall how appeasing terrorism culminated in the horrific disaster of 2007. Thats when Islamabad became a battlefield above which thick smoke filled the sky for days. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Lal Masjid: Is Pakistan's govt beginning to appease terror again?

    The mosque's clerics had attracted around them a core of banned militant organisations including Al Qaeda and...

    24 Feb 2020 3:23 AM IST

    Qassem SoleimaniOpinion
    Today, I am very proudly an Iranian

    This man is the president of a country that for decades has preached human rights and rule of law to the world.

    15 Jan 2020 1:50 AM IST

    Many of us with a Western education consider our clerical parties a retrogressive force that wants to push Pakistan back to the medieval era.Opinion
    White-collar hooliganism, groupthink & Ziaist schools

    Sizeable sections of Pakistan's professional classes are outright hooligans and gangsters.

    23 Dec 2019 12:43 AM IST

    Abdus SalamOpinion
    Did Abdus Salam get Chinese help for Pakistan nukes?

    The Sun-Yin paper reveals Salam's effort to seek China's help for Pakistan's nuclear weapon programme.

    2 Dec 2019 12:43 AM IST

    Pakistans flagOpinion
    Why Bangladesh overtook Pakistan

    The IMF calculates Bangladesh's economy growing from $180 billion presently to $322 billion by 2021.

    10 Feb 2019 12:20 AM IST

    Srinivisan Ramanujan (1887-1920)India
    S Ramanujan and Muhammad Salam: What inspired them?

    Salam sourced his inspiration to his religious beliefs, while Ramanujan claimed direct transmission from his gods.

    19 Feb 2018 1:39 AM IST

    Today, Pakistan has disputes with both its Muslim neighbours, Afghanistan and Iran.Opinion
    The ummah is at war with itself

    The Muslim monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, both Wahhabi, are practically at war with each other now.

    23 July 2017 6:05 AM IST

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