I just wanted let you all know that we recently have had some problems with the Pakistaniaat website and, due to some technical problems, have lost some of our...
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22Mar
Learning to Love my Kindle Fire
When it concerns serious reading, I am pretty old fashioned. I love the feel and smell of a book and enjoy annotating in the margins. Because of my training...
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21Mar
My Knitting Experience
A few months ago, I decided to start knitting again. I had previously knitted a scarf or two and had found the experience of actually creating a material “thing”...
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30Apr
Why Does the Pakistan Army Deserve our Support
It seems that deriding Pakistan army and maligning its efforts has become a finely tuned mechanism within the Pakistani public sphere. It would, however, be prudent to keep certain...
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15Jan
The Bengal Kitten Scam by jonesbengalkittens.com
A few days ago, I almost fell for an online Bengal kitten scam. I am posting this here, even though it is a bit embarrassing, to report the website...
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11Dec
Pakistaniaat Publishing Again
Dear All: I just wanted to share the news that Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies will start publishing regularly from January 2018 onward. Due to various personal and...
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01Aug
The Incredible Pettiness of Mr. Trump
America has had its fair share of not too intelligent presidents, but in most of the cases when such people got elected they made up for their intellectual shortcomings...
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31Mar
We Need to Re-Read Iqbal More Critically
A few years ago I presented a paper on Allama Muhammad Iqbal at a conference in Islamabad. It goes without saying that in Pakistan, Iqbal holds a larger-than-life status...
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27Dec
Aamir Liaquat: Mullahs and Scapegoating of Ahmadiyya Community
It seems that in the aftermath of Peshawar Massacre, now that the hate-mongering mullahs and their followers are facing the wrath of the Pakistani public, the mullahs and their...
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