Basharat Peer
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The Silence Is the Loudest Sound
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The Indian government has confined about seven million Kashmiris to their homes and imposed a complete communications blackout.
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Basharat Peer ‘If Kashmir is occupied by security forces, India is occupied by the mob.’ Arundhati Roy on Kashmir in 116d
Modi’s Majoritarian March to Kashmir
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For India’s new rulers, Muslim-majority Kashmir was the perfect place to announce the rise of India’s new muscular nationalism and unabashed majoritarianism.
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Basharat Peer "The erasure of the residency rights in Kashmir has set the ball rolling for changing the demographic character of the state, the Indian version of the Israeli policy of settlements or what the Chinese have done in Tibet, says in 123d
Distress and Defiance in Tehran
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The devastating impact of American sanctions has left many Iranians feeling they are already at war.
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Basharat Peer " “Well, isn’t this already war?” he asked, without much rancor. It’s a question many Iranians ask themselves these days. " Iranian novelist Salar Abdoh writes from Tehran in 170d
The Massacre That Led to the End of the British Empire
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The events at Jallianwala Bagh, in the Indian city of Amritsar, marked the beginning of the resistance against colonial governance.
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Basharat Peer The Massacre That Led to the End of the British Empire . on Jalianwala Bagh in 240d
The India-Pakistan Conflict Was a Parade of Lies
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The internet contributed to the culture of mendacity in a fight between nuclear neighbors.
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Basharat Peer Farhad Manjoo, our tech columnist, on India, Pakistan and lies. 278d
The Young Suicide Bomber Who Brought India and Pakistan to the Brink of War
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Both countries share responsibility for reducing Kashmir to a ruin and destroying generations of lives.
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Basharat Peer "India and Pakistan.... share the responsibility for reducing Kashmir to a ruin and destroying generations of Kashmiri lives."--Been a while but had to write this for the paper 281d
Hashtags for War Between India and Pakistan
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Social media has been taken over by warmongers in the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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Basharat Peer I and many other young Pakistanis have called upon our country to release the captured Indian pilot as a gesture of our commitment to peace, humanity and dignity. We cannot be a subcontinent of orphans. in 285d
How Bangladesh Made Abortion Safer
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The government’s effort to help Rohingya victims of wartime rape has lessons for the world.
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Basharat Peer How Bangladesh confronted mass sexual violence by Pakistani military during the 1971 war and started a safe abortion services program that continues today in the camps for the Rohingya 346d
In India, Farmers Face a Terrifying Crisis
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The Indian governments and elites have ignored the deepening rural economic distress.
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Basharat Peer "Successive governments have connived at and hastened the corporate hijacking of Indian agriculture, privileging the profits of a few over countless livelihoods." As farmers protest in Delhi, read this by in earlier in the year 374d
If the Regime Comes Here, Everyone Will Be Targeted
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Residents in Idlib, Syria, describe the fear of chemical gas attacks, losing their children and becoming refugees.
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Basharat Peer Where Death Comes From the Sky Must read essay by and in 454d
3 Million People With Nowhere to Go
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President Bashar al-Assad’s forces are about to attack Idlib, the last rebel-held province in Syria. Fear of mass slaughter is increasing.
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Basharat Peer Must read this really powerful essay by in on Syria abd the absence of justice. 457d
The Erdogan Supremacy
Nytimes.com 531d 1 tweets
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, faces no elections for five years, and few checks on his power.
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Basharat Peer "Mr. Erdogan has no elections to face for five years and he can avoid social conflict in the coming days." on the morning after the Turkish elections in 531d
As Water Runs Low, an Indian Town Blames the Men Who Work the Pipes
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The “key men” of Shimla, who control the water flow to each neighborhood, were subjected to so much wrath during a drought that they were given police protection.
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Basharat Peer Some 600 million Indians face high to extreme water scarcity conditions, with about 200,000 dying every year from inadequate access to safe water, according to the report. Terrifying report on India's water crisis 536d
I Survived a Sarin Gas Attack
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In August 2013, the Assad regime’s forces dropped chemical weapons on my hometown. It changed my life forever.
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Basharat Peer Reports of more chemical gas attacks in Syria. Read ’s account of surviving a sarin gas attack 610d
The Merchant Of Venice 2004 Shylock speech) HD
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A very beautiful speech from Shylock isnt'?
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Basharat Peer "The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."--Shylock, The Merchant of Venice.. 629d
Pair of Killings Tests Hindu-Muslim Unity in a Pakistani Desert Town
Mehreen Zahra-Malik - Nytimes.com 655d 2 tweets
In the remote town of Mithi, tolerance has been a byword for generations. But a recent influx of Muslim extremist parties is setting everything on edge.
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Basharat Peer "Suddenly, the killing of the Hindu Kumar brothers has raised worries that the tolerance the town is famous for is eroding."--Important, heartbreaking and beautiful story by in 655d
The Rise of China and the Fall of the ‘Free Trade’ Myth
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China’s economic success lays bare an uncomfortable historical truth: No one who preaches ‘free trade’ really practices it.
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Basharat Peer China’s economic success lays bare an uncomfortable historical truth: No one who preaches ‘free trade’ really practices it. Great essay by Pankaj Mishra.... 666d
Saudi Arabia’s Chance to Create a Liberal Kingdom
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Reform might not have been possible there without the activists and intellectuals who struggled and suffered over the years.
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Basharat Peer Arrested Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's wife in calls upon Crown Prince MBS to start a process of national reconciliation by reconsidering the cases and imprisonment of prisoners of conscience. 703d
Can the Singapore Model Save Zimbabwe?
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Zimbabwe must loosen the government’s regulatory stranglehold on the economy and make it easier to do business in the country.
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Basharat Peer Can the Singapore Model Save Zimbabwe? in 739d
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Basharat Peer David Rohde's stories from Srebrenica that exposed the massacres. Pulitzer Prize site. 746d