Author:Junaid S Ahmad
Lord’s, Miandad, and the Meltdown of Pakistan’s Generalissimo
0Authoritarian regimes spend years manufacturing grandeur. Sometimes eighteen minutes of television and an old cricketer’s tears are enough to make
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The Islamic Imperative for Imran Khan: Justice, Jail, and the Judgment of History
0There are silences born of caution. Silences born of fear. And silences that linger so long they begin to lose
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Persecuting Palestine in Pakistan: Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Kashmir, and the Kidnapping State
0Authoritarian regimes do not merely imprison people; they criminalize the virtues that expose them. Courage becomes sedition. Conscience becomes conspiracy.
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The Prisoner Jamaat Forgot: Ameerul Azeem and the Politics of Respectability
0Ameerul Azeem’s death leaves Jamaat-e-Islami with a loss to mourn — and a question it would probably prefer not to
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When the Atheist Speaks, and the Pious Look Away: Tariq Ali, Imran Khan and Pakistan’s Faith in the Pharaohs
0Sometimes the most religious act in the room is performed by an atheist. Tariq Ali’s message to Imran Khan was
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Trump’s ‘Memorandum of Surrender’: An empire battered, bluffing and buying time
0PROFESSOR JUNAID S. AHMAD argues that the United States’ illegal war on Iran exposed the limits of American power, with subsequent
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Imran Khan, Pakistan, and APPNA’s Last Chance
0The Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America (APPNA) now stands at such a moment — wealthy, connected,
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