Sunday, November 22, 2015

Review: Over the Tightrope

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PS: the book is free to download on kindle on Monday and Tuesday 11-23 and 11-24 http://www.amazon.com/Over-Tightrope-Asif-Ismael-ebook/...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Why do Muslims Blow Stuff Up?

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Indian secular commentator Harbir Singh Nain has a nice piece in the Nation (a Lahore newspaper that has shifted from jingoistic Islamism to...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Paris, Islam, ISIS and Sykes-Picot. Random Thoughts

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The latest Islamist-terrorist atrocity hit the news on Friday with a Mumbai-style attack on the city of Paris . The same group (ISIS) has ...

Is the Islamic State Islamic? by Charles Cameron

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[ by Charles Cameron , original at zenpundit — both answers are true in different contexts — IMO a significant point that previous discussio...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Hamid Hussain: Remembering Colonel Shuja Khanzada

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Colonel ® Shuja Khanzada (28 August 1943 – 16 August 2015) Hamid Hussain   Shuja Khanzada as a young cavalry officer. On August 16, 2...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Hamid Hussain Reviews Cloughley's Book about the Pakistan Army

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A History of the Pakistan Army: Wars and Insurrections by Brian Cloughley Dear All, Some questions came my way about Brian Cloughley’s g...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

No Water from Mosque for Christians

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btw, the Sikh Guru invocation is a thing now . Apparently the meme has spread in the Christian community.. I have also noticed that in conv...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Is Jeremy Corbyn a Tory pawn to annihilate the Labour Party forever?

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When I put my part deux ( or is it trois ) of JC insulting the Queen, it soon turned into his comments about Osama Bin Laden's assassina...
Saturday, October 3, 2015

A Letter from Former ISI DG Javed Qazi (and comments from Dr Hussain)

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What follows is Dr Hamid Hussain's comments regarding General Javed Ashraf Qazi's long letter about the role of the army in creating...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Joseph Conrad, the Modern World, Yemen; Random Thoughts

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This post was triggered by an an excellent piece about the great Joseph Conrad in Prospect magazine. (Though I do think "anticipating t...