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MJ Akbar IN October 1947 Pakistan set off what has become history’s longest continuous war with an arbitrary invasion of...

MJ AkbarPakistan is not a state. It is a state of mind, conceived in a strange supremacism, bred in distance...

MJ Akbar Aurangzeb, disruptive in anything that did not conform to his narrow view, changed the official calendar from the...

MJ AkbarTHE Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is right. Aurangzeb is irrelevant to contemporary India. Aurangzeb is the patron saint and...

MJ Akbar IN 1970, at the coldest point of the Cold War, when American confidence had been shaken by virtual...

MJ Akbar THE Nobel Prize for Peace might be a step or two beyond the horizon but Donald Trump and...

MJ Akbar Those who prefer television might want to check out a great classic of the medium, a masterpiece of...

MJ Akbar THE lips said it, the mind read it. Some hours after war broke out in the White House...

MJ Akbar AS I write, 45 years after that war, the Vietnamese Parliament has endorsed a railway line between Vietnam...

MJ Akbar TIME stands still when it counts. A meeting with the Foreign Minister of Vietnam in Muscat during an...