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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicMohammad Zia Ul-Haq

Topic: Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq

The Great Damagers: Why Pakistan will debate which dictator harmed it more, Musharraf or Zia

Shekhar Gupta -
Dictator Musharraf badly damaged Pakistan: Assassination of Benazir, 26/11 attacks in India and the US Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama in Abbottabad. But he believed he was a democrat.

How General Zia’s quest for Jammu and Kashmir became fodder for jihad in Afghanistan

Dinkar P. Srivastava -
In 'Forgotten Kashmir: The Other Side of the Line of Control’, diplomat Dinkar Srivastava examines the evolution of the PoK over the past few decades.

In Pakistan, Gen Zia-ul-Haq’s admirers are growing. They hail him as a shaheed

Asha’ar Rehman -
Like in life, in death, too, Zia-ul-Haq ensured that he frustrated the Pakistanis who preferred to pull him down.

Iqbal Bano, whose voice made Faiz’s poem ‘Hum Dekhenge’ a protest anthem for all time

Kairvy Grewal -
Iqbal Bano's voice, and her rendition of Faiz's poem, still remains just as effective, evocative and powerful as it did in 1986 Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif’s return to Pakistan shows why army has picked the wrong fight

Mihir Sharma -
The military needs Pakistan to stay poor, stay dependent and stay angry. Sharif threatens that vision.

On Camera

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Opinion

Zohran Mamdani’s New York win revives a forgotten history — of Gujarati Muslim cosmopolitanism

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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