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Bangladesh Court Sentences Former PM Sheikh Hasina To Death Over Student Crackdown

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of orchestrating a deadly crackdown on a ... Read More


The 18th, 26th, And Then 27th Amendment: How Pakistan's Democracy Is Being Rewritten

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- Constitutions are drafted to protect a nation's foundational principles, not to weaken or distort them. When Pakistan's framers sat down in 1973 to write a new social contract for... Read More


Ghosts Of Empire: The Roots Of The Durand Faultline - Part 4

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- India funded a range of small-scale development projects in Afghanistan. These are in almost all provinces of Afghanistan; the projects are high-impact, low-cost, and concentrated... Read More


Extra-Judicial Killings In Pakistan: Violations Of Rights And Rule Of Law

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- In a powerful dissenting note in the case concerning the killing of Mohammad Hayat Mirza, Justice Athar Minallah described extra-judicial killings, custodial torture, and the exce... Read More


More Than Malicious Gossip: Remembering Khushwant Singh

Pakistan, Nov. 13 -- It's nothing short of a blessing to get one's hands on any book of Khushwant Singh, the most celebrated and widely read South Asian writer. Born in 1915 in what is now Pakistan, h... Read More