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Pakistan of the Ismailis

Zaigham Khan The past is another country, and 1906 is on located at a distance of more than a century. In that eventful year, the imam of the small Ismaili Muslim community led the process of forming a political platform for South Asian Muslims at a meeting of the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka. […]

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The Kunar question

The rising consensus of anger in the wake of this massacre has caused some to observe that Fazlullah may be isolated. This may be partially true, especially as Pakistan Army’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan unfolds. But up in Kunar, he appears quite in control. While Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Pakistan’s interior minister, has said

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English — more than a subject

LAHORE, March 27: The teaching of the English language in Pakistan is class-based as the country’s education system is programmed to provide different levels of English teaching to people belonging to different economic status. Those who afford go to elite private schools and access better learning material, authentic environments and well-trained teachers whereas the poor

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