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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

No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

BS Sanyal -
The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

Maach & mutton for Mission Bengal. What BJP-TMC are cooking in new poll battleground

Casteism didn’t disappear in Indian cities. It just learned English

Economy

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Alex Gabriel Simon Thattil -
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

Defence

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

Keshav Padmanabhan -
UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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