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Read More PPeople MOSSADEGH: THE COUP, IRAN, AND THE USbyAsif ZaidiAugust 11, 201983 views Many Iranians blame American interventionism -her backing for the Shah’s repressive regime, her permission to allow the Shah…
Read More PPeople Ghalib The Grand Poet from IndiabyAsif ZaidiMarch 8, 201543 views Years ago when I needed a book that I held in great esteem to take the oath of…
Read More PPeople Jean-Paul Sartre: The Man who Spurned the Nobel Prize for LiteraturebyAsif ZaidiJanuary 11, 201542 views While thinking of how most Pakistanis grudge Malala’s Nobel Prize for Peace, which she by no means got…
Read More PPeople Aitzaz Hasan (1998 – 2014)byAsif ZaidiJanuary 14, 201447 views Death takes the applause as the humanity’s foremost leveller. Once we cross the gate into our eternal abode,…
Read More PPeople Faiz Ahmed Faiz The Conscience of his Time and StationbyAsif ZaidiJanuary 6, 201428 views We are now in the thirtieth year since the ‘Elan Vital’ that was Faiz withdrew itself from “the…
Read More PPeople Putin: A Highly Effective PoliticianbyAsif ZaidiJanuary 1, 201423 views In the life of a great nation, almost every historic transition is dominated by a leader who becomes…
Read More PPeople A season for grief’s pursuing – and now Mirza Abbas ArifbyAsif ZaidiAugust 24, 201325 views As a warm August morning wore on in Karachi, Mirza Abbas Arif, a young man of 25 years…
Read More PPeople ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MALALA AND OUR ESCAPISMbyAsif ZaidiJuly 18, 201320 views Yesterday I wrote a piece named “Malala and our Hypocrisy” and brought a lot of thunder upon myself,…
Read More PPeople MALALA AND OUR HYPOCRISYbyAsif ZaidiJuly 17, 201319 views We are ready to judge Malala even before she has done something wrong and not willing to judge…