Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
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Was Pakistan’s Imran Khan Shot Because He Was Too ‘pro-Israel’?
Former premier Imran Khan accuses Pakistan’s current prime minister and military of planning his assassination. His assailant accuses Khan of cosying up to Israel. The Islamist conspiracy theories, anti-Israel hysteria and violence stoked by Khan have turned on their mentor → Read More
Was Pakistan’s Imran Khan Shot Because He Was Too ‘pro-Israel’?
Former premier Imran Khan accuses Pakistan’s current prime minister and military of planning his assassination. His assailant accuses Khan of cosying up to Israel. The Islamist conspiracy theories, anti-Israel hysteria and violence stoked by Khan have turned on their mentor → Read More
Was Pakistan’s Imran Khan Shot Because He Was Too ‘pro-Israel’?
Former premier Imran Khan accuses Pakistan’s current prime minister and military of planning his assassination. His assailant accuses Khan of cosying up to Israel. The Islamist conspiracy theories, anti-Israel hysteria and violence stoked by Khan have turned on their mentor → Read More
Was Pakistan’s Imran Khan Shot Because He Was Too ‘pro-Israel’?
Former premier Imran Khan accuses Pakistan’s current prime minister and military of planning his assassination. His assailant accuses Khan of cosying up to Israel. The Islamist conspiracy theories, anti-Israel hysteria and violence stoked by Khan have turned on their mentor → Read More
How the Rushdie Fatwa Radicalized an Entire Generation of Muslims
Salman Rushdie's assailant was primed by a lethal, globalized narrative of intolerance triggered by Khomeini’s 1989 call for death for blasphemy against Islam, bolstered by weak, deluded Western liberals → Read More
'Death to Blasphemers': How Iran's Rushdie Fatwa Still Radicalizes Muslims Towards Violence
Salman Rushdie's assailant was primed by a lethal, globalized narrative of intolerance triggered by Khomeini’s 1989 call for death for blasphemy against Islam, bolstered by weak, deluded Western liberals → Read More
Thanks to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's recognition of Israel is now inevitable
Pakistan can't afford to remain the last Sunni Islamist bastion resisting Saudi normalization with Israel. But the country's rulers, both political and military, want safeguards against a frenzied domestic backlash → Read More
The Al-Qaida operative, antisemite and Pakistani national hero who inspired the Texas synagogue terrorist
The story of Aafia Siddiqui, and her zealous fans, exposes the intersection of Islamist violence, Pakistani politics, raging antisemitism and the relentless, hypocritical apologists for terror, from Islamabad to the U.S. → Read More
South Asian Politics Takes the Field at the Cricket World Cup
From the India-Pakistan match to Afghanistan’s run and even New Zealand-Pakistan tensions, the T20 World Cup has been brimming with geopolitical implications. → Read More
Pandora Papers Unravel Imran Khan’s ‘Anti-Corruption’ Narrative
The Panama Papers took down Khan’s predecessor. How will his government weather the latest revelations of offshore wealth? → Read More
How South Asia’s Brand of Sufi Islam Became Radicalized
Radical Barelvi groups are now resorting to violence to underline their sect – once famous for its pluralism – as the truest version of Islam. → Read More
Pakistan wants to cash in on its Taliban 'victory.' But China is wrecking its plans
From politicians to cricketers to Islamists, Pakistan is celebrating the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. But, as Beijing flexes its muscles, its attempts to start a bidding war for access to Kabul will be short-lived → Read More
Pakistan’s Hindu Temple Ransacking Has Deep Ideological Roots
Pakistan’s anti-Hindu bigotry remains uniquely institutionalized. → Read More
Are Pakistan-Sri Lanka Ties Emerging From India’s Shadow?
From Imran Khan’s visit to stronger trade ties, Pakistan’s much-touted shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics is on display in Sri Lanka. → Read More
The Taliban will decide if Pakistan recognizes Israel
As advisors to Pakistan's PM Imran Khan resort to antisemitic slurs to delegitimize more evidence of contacts with Israel, a strange, contradictory geopolitical quadrangle will actually decide potential recognition: the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel → Read More
The Taliban will decide if Pakistan recognizes Israel
As advisors to Pakistan's PM Imran Khan resort to antisemitic slurs to delegitimize more evidence of contacts with Israel, a strange, contradictory geopolitical quadrangle will actually decide potential recognition: the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel → Read More
How Pakistan Is Helping China Crack Down on Uyghur Muslims
Pakistan was once an escape route of choice for many Uyghurs. Today long-standing members of the country’s Uyghur community fear for their future. → Read More
Antisemitism, the Muslim world’s sole collective contribution to Palestine
Don’t believe the noisy calls of solidarity with Gaza. If, and when, an independent Palestine is born, it will be despite the role played by hypocritical, self-serving, hate-mongering Muslim leaders, and not because of them → Read More
Pakistan’s COVID-19 Battle Is Missing a Crucial Ingredient: Public Support
Few Pakistanis bothered to follow the government’s public health guidelines. Now, many are refusing to get vaccinated. → Read More
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law Clearly Doesn’t Protect Hinduism
The mockery of Hindu deities underscores Pakistan’s Islamist double standard on blasphemy. → Read More