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Javed Jabbar
Javed Jabbar

  • September 17, 2023

    September 17: remembering India’s shame

    Exactly 75 years ago, on September 17, 1948, India blatantly completed its invasion of the princely state of Hyderabad Deccan that it had launched...

  • July 17, 2020

    Justice and injustices

    On the 125th day of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman's detention by NAB, on an alleged involvement with a 34-year-old land transaction, one is obliged to adapt...

  • April 10, 2020

    Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s prolonged detention lamentable

    Javed Jabbar. Photo: fileOne finds it inexplicable that given the obvious holes and weaknesses in the NAB prosecutors' arguments ably exposed by...

  • December 16, 2019

    A national reflection day

    On 16th December 1971 Pakistan became the first nation-state to disintegrate after World War II of 1939-1945. Several others followed in succeeding...

  • September 19, 2019

    The Congress-BJP connection

    September 17 marked the 71st anniversary of the forced annexation in 1948 of the princely state of predominantly Hindu-populated but Muslim-ruled...

  • September 17, 2019

    Painful parallels

    Though 71 years separate September 17, 1948 and August 5, 2019, there is a dark direct connection between the two dates.The first date marks the...

  • May 29, 2017

    Questions on campus

    Is Mashal Khan’s brutal mob-killing in Mardan on unfounded allegations of blasphemy a symptom of a disease that has stifled intellectual...

  • October 20, 2016

    Conservation conversations

    In September 2016, the world’s most unique ecology forum adopted two motions with potentially far-reaching, multiple impacts on mass...

  • February 15, 2016

    Field notes from Tharparkar

    Three days in Tharparkar reinforce one’s conviction that the empowerment of the region’s women will be the principal catalyst to replace...

  • December 16, 2015

    Dialogue with Dhaka

    Forty-four years after the two halves of Pakistan separated, acrimony rather than reconciliation marks the relationship. We recall today the tragic...

  • July 18, 2015

    Backchannel, not Track-II

    The text of the brief Pakistan-India joint-statement released after the meeting of the two prime ministers at the SCO Summit on July 10...

  • January 21, 2015

    Challenges for Modi

    Part - II

  • January 20, 2015

    Challenges for Modi

    Part - IChallenge 1: To live with the sobering effect of wielding state power when in the mind and body there linger the addictive effects of the...

  • January 02, 2015

    Dark words

    Part - IIBefore the school mission, perhaps come drugs were used. Except that drugs generally slow reflexes. Unless one takes those special pills...

  • January 01, 2015

    Dark words

    Part - IThese words are steps into darkness – the void of the murderous minds that committed the horror in Peshawar. Desecration begins with the...