Mainstream Weekly

Nation-states and Frontiers: Old Tumours or New Tremors?

Javed Jabbar — 2014-09-28T13:15:50Z

VIEW FROM PAKISTAN
This article was sent to us by the author for publication some time ago but could not be published earlier. —Editor
Pakistan completes 67 years as a nation-state while its Armed Forces conduct an unprece-dented campaign to crush the sanctuaries of terrorists who breach the country's land fron-tiers with impunity. Another country, located 10,000 miles away, uses drones with equal impunity to violate Pakistan's aerial frontiers. But it does so implicitly, with a (…)

- 2014

War without End

Javed Jabbar — 2013-12-29T12:07:49Z

BOOK REVIEW
This review of Prof Stephen Cohen's latest book appeared in a Pakistani peirodical, Newsline, last November. Since it was sent to us by the reviewer, a noted Pakistani intellectual, politician, and media-person, it is being reproducd here, with due acknowledgement, to get a Pakistani perspective of the issues under scrutiny for the benefot of our readers.
Shooting for a Century: Finding Answers to the India-Pakistan Conundrum by Stephen P. Cohen; published by Harper Collins, (…)

- 2013

Remembering Two South Asian Stalwarts

Javed Jabbar — 2007-11-03T17:00:25Z

With the passing away of Nikhil Chakravartty and Mahbub ul Haq less than three weeks apart, on 27 June and 16 July, South Asia has lost two outstanding individuals who belonged to different countries yet shared a deep commitment to the region.
While the fact that Nikhil Chakravartty was Indian and Mahbub ul Haq was Pakistani underlines their distinct national identities within South Asia, their personal attributes were so universal and humanistic that they rose above the variances to (…)

- November 3, 2007