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Between Red Square and Pahalgam

WHEN dense smoke was billowing from deadly firings across the line of control on Friday, smartly turned out military columns from 23 countries were paying homage at Moscow’s Red Square to the 27 million fallen men and women of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who defeated Nazi Germany, captured Berlin and forced Hitler to shoot himself. Had the...

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As legacies of colonialism go

PALESTINE and Kashmir have too readily been likened to each other and to this end, they were mentioned in the same breath last week at the United Nations — not for the first time — by Pakistan’s prime minister...

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Reparatory justice for victims of colonialism

JOINT efforts aimed at building a polycentric and just world order are becoming increasingly relevant in today’s world. More and more countries on the planet are expressing their desire to live in a global community free from the legacy of the colonial system. They want to build a world based on the principles of inclusive multilateralism...

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To Lahore, with love

SO MANY trips back and forth from the US to Pakistan ever since I ‘left’ Lahore on September 12, 1979. My 21st birthday. I was off to conquer the world, become the free and independent woman I had always dreamt of being, away from the strictures of desi patriarchy...