Khaled Ahmed was an editor, author, linguist, newsroom mentor, and a rare genuinely secular agnostic, probably atheist—definitely the only such I have met among my many Muslim friends. And he was no Leftist either.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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