Not accepted within the fold of Pakistan, activists formulate a nationalist political ideology relying on the `mountain-ness' of the Northern Areas.
Come to Balawaristan! Experience the mystic serenity
There is never a dull moment in the Pakistan polity, with what the erudite call "fissiparous tendencies" erupting all over all the time. This was as true during
Even Joseph Heller, creator of the absurd illogic of Catch-22, would have been impressed by the convoluted reasoning. A retired Supreme Court justice, offering his opinion on the
Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia
by Stanley J. Tambiah
Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 1996
The how and why of mob violence in India, Pakistan and
Two 50-year-old siblings still play tit-for-tat.
For all of lnder Kumar Gujral´s overtures to Pakistan, it is still ludicrously difficult for Pakistanis to visit India,
This documentary on the principal character responsible for the creation of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was obviously made with an eye on the golden jubilee celebrations of the independence of
Some other major deficiencies apart, the main problem with the film appears to be in the flawed approach to the subject. It deals neither with the life of the Quaid nor with his work; both are touched upon only episodically in the course of defend ing the Quaids character and politics.
Chaudhary Rehmat Ali was a teacher employed by the Mazaris, a feudal family of Punjab, and was a one-man crusade for Muslim homelands. He had a dozen carved out
Recently, a Lahore journalist was vehement in denying that Jinnah had anything to do with his daughter Dina Jinnah after she married a Parsiturned-Christian, Neville Wadia. Following the expected
Pakistan has never had any Jinnah: he was always the Quaid-e-Azam. Attempts to dig out the human being inside the Great Leader have been discouraged as being anti-
