Politics
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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The Treason of Pakistan’s Intellectuals
0“The clerks began to play the game of political passions.” — Julien Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals Julien Benda
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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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The Islam They Fear: Imran Khan and the Metaphysics of Muslim Defiance
0Introduction Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's religious worldview has often been portrayed by critics as fundamentalist, irrational, or excessively conservative.
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Op-Ed: Javed Ghamidi And The Theology Of Managed Defeat
1There is a certain kind of “moderate” Muslim scholar whom empire adores: calm in tone, allergic to resistance, fluent in
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Aafia Siddiqui and Pakistan’s bargain with American gulags
0The Pakistani security state possesses an almost supernatural ability to discover “sovereignty” whenever cameras are rolling in Washington and to
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