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Zaboor Ahmad
Ahmad Zaboor is pursuing Ph.D. from the University of Kashmir and teaches political science. He is a contributing author to the forthcoming book Modern South Asian Thinkers. He can be reached at ahmadzaboor@gmail.com.
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Book Review; The secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism0
- Commentary, Reviews
- May 20, 2019
by Zaboor Ahmad 20 May 2019 India and Turkey are the two leading examples of secular states in the non-secular world. Both are constitutionally secular as there is no official religion in them. However, it is different from the western conception of state-religion dichotomy. Indeed the state has acted as intrusive and regulating authority in
READ MOREThe Islamic State in Khorasan Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad0
- Commentary, Reviews
- January 27, 2019
When the news of the proclamation of the so-called Islamic state was made by self-styled Baghdadi, very few had thought that it would emerge as a force to reckon with in different parts of the Muslim world. Well beyond the Middle east, it had a special significance for Central and South Asia. With the help
READ MOREThe Baloch and identity – How Pakistan dealt with the question of identities; Balochistan and Gwadar Port0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 9, 2018
Pakistan as a post-colonial state has deployed two forms of reductionism against identities. One is identity disregard entailing either ignoring or neglecting them altogether. Second is singular affiliation which takes the form of assuming that particular person preeminently belongs to one collectivity only while subsuming all others. Both are toxic, incitement to ignore all affiliations
READ MORESHIA-SUNNI CONFLICT IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: A BEACON OF HOPE2
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 6, 2018
Sect formation is not peculiar to the religion of Islam; however, the sectarian violence demonstrated all along in the Muslim world is a new phenomenon. What is happening between Shia and Sunni in a different nation of the world is less a result of theological dispute than the politics of the time in which Saudi
READ MOREBook Review; The Raisina Model; Indian Democracy at 700
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
- April 5, 2018
Indian democracy at 70 by Meghnand Desai by Zaboor Ahmad April 5, 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking on 7th February 2018 in Indian Parliament made the following claim about India’s democracy. “India did not get democracy due to Pandit Nehru, as Congress wants us to believe. Please look at our rich history.
READ MOREWhy Scams Are Here to Stay0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
- March 30, 2018
Book Review ‘Corruption is a problem of political economy.’ We live in the midst of scams and scandals- a scoundrel times, but simultaneously we also have become accustomed to corruption. The book under review is an attempt to get the measure of political corruption in contemporary India and see what could be done to combat
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India’s Argumentative Battle in Kashmir0
- Commentary
- February 15, 2018
by Zaboor Ahmad 15/2/2018 Ever since 1947, India and Pakistan have laid claim to Kashmir and scholars continue to search and dilate the reasons for this intractable conflict between them. Apart from the argument of accession signed by the last Dogra Hindu king, Hari Singh with India; India has sought to keep the Kashmir
READ MOREBook Review: When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics by Milan Vaishnav0
- Commentary, Issue 23 – Winter 2018, Reviews
- December 2, 2017
Why Criminals are in demand in Indian Politics To all intents and purposes, the quality of democracy will suffer and deteriorate as the criminal elements are world over entering the legislative bodies. In this context, India is no exception. In India’s boisterous democracy, the discourse over the role of criminals in politics is
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WRONG DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES PUSHING PAKISTAN IN QUAGMIRE OF SECTARIANISM0
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- January 31, 2017
WRONG DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES PUSHING PAKISTAN IN QUAGMIRE OF SECTARIANISM Ahmad Zaboor Zahir-ud- din-Muhammad Babur, the King who established the mighty Mughal Empire in India, while on his death bed, bequeathed following wise counsels to his son Humayun, “overlook the differences between the Shias and Sunnis. Otherwise, the decrepitude of Islam would follow.” (John
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Forces Behind The partition0
- Issue 16 - Spring 2016
- April 11, 2016
Book review: Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire Author: Alex von Tunzelmann Henry Holt & Company 401 pp Released: 2007 Alex Von Tunzelmann, a British scholar in her path breaking book Indian summer, the secret history of the end of an empire is
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Impending disaster of Baluchistan to Pakistan0
- Issue 16 - Spring 2016
- April 3, 2016
Pakistan to all intents and purposes, was indeed carved out on the underpinnings of religion from its womb called Hindustan in which Islam was said to play a unifying role. But Pakistan that emerged has been ethnically and linguistically an amalgam of complex states. Pashtun’s and Punjabi’s are scattered along length and breadth of country
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