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Alpha and what YRF thinks about geopolitics
(The studio's spy universe keeps casting India and Pakistan as a family divided by a few bad men. The trouble is that the real subcontinent has stopped believing in that story.) A poster from the promotions of the film Alpha headlined by Alia Bhatt and produced by YRF. I went to see Alpha because I am an Alia Bhatt fan, and I admired, again, the fact that Hindi cinema’s most bankable female star keeps pushing the boundaries to the extent that she can. But watching the film wa


General Asim Munir’s delusion of power: A puppet democracy and a nation in decline
Pakistan’s current political theatre is not a democracy, it is a carefully choreographed act of submission, with General Asim Munir pulling the strings and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif playing the compliant marionette. After decades of repeated coups and direct military interventions, Pakistan’s latest army chief appears to have realised that outright takeovers no longer work. In the post-Cold War, post-FATF, IMF-dependent world, staging a coup is not just unfashionable, it’


Pakistan’s New National Security Policy is a Facade
An analysis of the inherent contradictions in Pakistan's National Security Policy.


Pakistan’s Economy is in a Downward Spiral and Imran Khan Continues to Make it Worse
Pakistan has tripled its inflation rate since the ‘populist’ Imran Khan took office with its economy at risk as the increase in...
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