Partition and the Selective Reading of History on September 6, 2023Growing up in Pakistan, our first introduction to the history of partition came through Pakistan Studies textbooks in public and private schools, as well as popular culture, including dramas and novels. The narrative we were taught was one of thousands of Muslims massacred by Hindus and Sikhs, who sacrificed their lives to win the land […]
Paradigm shift need of the hour on June 14, 2021It almost feels like déjà vu.The current situation in Afghanistan reminds one of 1991when the USabandoned the Afghan Mujahedeento their own devices when it had achieved its strategic objective: the ouster of USSR and fall of the Soviet Najibullah regime. What followed was a bloody civil war followed by the Taliban regime and the subsequent […]