Across the border
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In Sindh, police killing of Muslim doctor accused of ‘blasphemy’ casts pall over Diwali festivities
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Can Hasina still be considered Bangladesh’s ‘legitimate’ premier? President’s remarks sparks storm
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How Imran Khan’s populist tactics have put Pakistan on the boil
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Opinion: Bangladesh is about to shed ‘least development country’ tag but key areas must be addressed
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Why Imran Khan’s agenda recalls the tale of a Pakistani hailed for kit that let ‘cars run on water’
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View from Dawn: Why Pakistan must stop blocking YouTube telecasts of Imran Khan’s speeches
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Pakistan floods: Why well-meaning but inappropriate medical aid may do more harm than good
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How a wax statue of Gandhi in Islamabad helps Pakistan nurture a sense of being a tolerant nation
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Bangladesh traffic deaths soar during Eid holidays as key safety recommendations stay unimplemented
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Opinion: Why Pakistani schools must shift their focus from English to regional languages
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Opinion: In Karachi, violence seems to be the quickest route to a better life
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By demonising Hindus, Pakistan’s nationalist history overlooks colonial atrocities
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In Sindh, mystery and controversy surround the marriages of Hindu women with Muslim men
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After 150 years, Pakistan is trying to change the laws governing Christian marriages and divorce
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View from Pakistan: Imran Khan’s US carnival was high on emotion and low on facts
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How a blasphemy case built and brought down a hardline religious party in Pakistan
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What is a Pakistani Muslim writer (not) supposed to write about?
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Lahore: The May 8 suicide bombing outside the Data Darbar shrine was an assault on the city’s soul
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An Easter tale: Remembering a Pakistani priest who gave his life to save Christians from persecution
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How a Lahore landmark named for a British radical came to be linked with Jallianwala Bagh massacre
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Destroying nature to build the Kartarpur Corridor is no way to celebrate Guru Nanak
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Sour taste: What family halls in restaurants tell us about Pakistan’s gender and class equations
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A short history of ordinary Pakistanis’ love-hate relationship with Narendra Modi
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As Pakistan investigates abduction of Hindu girls, it could learn some lessons from New Zealand
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The furore around Pakistan’s Aurat March still hasn’t died down. Here’s what critics won’t admit
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For Partition migrants, ugly nationalism in India and Pakistan is stealing their histories
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Pakistan’s Balakot is linked to puritanical Islam – but it also has a syncretic religious tradition
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What’s common in the attacks in India on Kashmiris and violence in Pakistan against Hindus, Sikhs?
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How the Chishti Sufi order indigenised Islam in South Asia by reinterpreting Hindu traditions
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Why there’s nothing wrong if Valentine’s Day becomes part of Pakistan’s culture
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This Pakistani shrine received offerings of phallic symbols for ages. But now they are deemed vulgar
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As Pakistan decides against reviving Basant festival, Lahore loses another cultural marker
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Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh: How did the attire of the Sikh gurus change so dramatically?
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This ruined Pakistani shrine linked with Guru Nanak tells of Sikhism’s lost architectural traditions
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A forgotten shrine in a village near Lahore stands witness to the havoc wreaked by Ahmed Shah Abdali
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The legend of Pakistan’s saint of fertility shows how Islam adopted South Asia’s cultic traditions
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How old is Lahore? The clues lie in a blend of historical fact and expedient legend
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Kartarpur Corridor must not lead to exclusion of Guru Nanak’s Muslim devotees from shrine
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Kartarpur: Along world’s most dangerous border, these gurdwaras could be made part of peace corridor
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In the story of Guru Nanak and Bhai Mardan lies the essential message of Sikhism
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Sohni to Sahiban: How Chenab, the river of love, flows seamlessly from one legend to another
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From Bulleh Shah to Asia Bibi, caste discrimination still runs deep in Pakistan’s Punjab
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Filtering history: Why Aurangzeb and Mahmud Ghazni are heroes in Pakistan but villains in India
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Conventional gender roles give rise to anxiety, self-doubt (and this is also evident in #MeToo)
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Did the Lahore of author Pran Nevile die with him last week?
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With his ashes immersed in the Ravi in Pakistan, Kuldip Nayar becomes one with the river’s legends
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Women not allowed: How patriarchy rules Pakistan’s Sufi shrines that also celebrate the feminine
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As the Koreas take a step towards peace while India and Pakistan falter, a comparison is simplistic
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Backlash against appointment of Ahmadi economist shows there’s nothing new about Naya Pakistan
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Pakistan Coke Studio’s latest season teased a televised revolution – but it soon fizzled out
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The legacy of Guru Nanak lives on in four historic gurdwaras in Pakistan’s Punjab
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If Pakistan shuns the term ‘Ancient India’ in its history books, is it entirely to blame?
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In Pakistan, appreciation of Indus Valley Civilisation ties in with attempts to erase its Hindu past
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In Lahore’s shadow lie the remnants of a great multicultural city lost to Partition
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Does Imran Khan’s victory in the Pakistan elections herald the rise of a new Takht-e-Lahore?
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The two worlds of Pakistani culture – one that abuses animals and another that holds them sacred
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‘Any friend of Modi’s is a traitor’: Anti-India rhetoric played a role in Pakistan elections
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From Mughal times to today’s poll-bound Pakistan, the battle of legacies goes way back
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Criticism for Imran Khan over Sufi shrine visit shows religion is not a personal matter in Pakistan
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How a valiant Sikh woman ruler helped Ranjit Singh rise from a chieftain to the Maharaja of Punjab
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With Pakistan’s rivers dying, are its ancient cities running out of time?
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Born of 1857 war, the British legacy of divide and rule still holds sway in India, Pakistan today
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A Sikh leader’s murder in Peshawar has dealt a blow to Pakistan’s narrative of inter-faith harmony
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Pakistan merging its tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a good time to debate our colonial past
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From Guru Hargobind to Guru Gobind Singh: How the Sikh community militarised to take on the Mughals
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In Pakistan, students are fighting sexual abuse – and a culture of silence and honour
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Bangladeshi rappers wield rhymes as a weapon, with Tupac as their guide
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This village near Lahore serves as a reminder of Sikhism’s diverse past
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As Pakistan promotes its ancient Buddhist heritage, silence surrounding its Hindu culture is telling
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The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure – but it sparked a revolution
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Lahore owes Hindu philanthropist Ganga Ram more than it would care to admit
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Lost in Partition, the Sikh-Muslim connection comes alive in the tale of Guru Nanak and Bhai Mardana
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First Anglo-Sikh War: In 1845, a vengeful queen plotted the fall of the mighty Khalsa Army
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What several South Asian religious traditions have in common with Zoroastrianism
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How Bhagat Singh helped Jawaharlal Nehru push the Congress to demand complete independence
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Poet of the people: With his verses, Habib Jalib inspired Pakistanis to rise against dictatorship
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Why the Women’s Day ‘Aurat March’ was a revolutionary feat for Pakistan
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For Pakistan’s Bengali babas, Hindu djinns are always evil (Muslim spirits are good)
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Punjab, the Urdu literary hub of Pakistan, is slowly waking up to its lost Punjabi identity
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Pakistan’s symbol of revolution is today a universal symbol of peace, democracy
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In the land of Heer: What does fighting Valentine’s Day have to do with saving Pakistan’s culture?
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Basant: A eulogy to Lahore’s greatest festival that may soon be a fading memory
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View from Pakistan: ‘Padmaavat’ puts together every stereotype of Muslims in India
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Republic Day story: On Ravi’s banks, a pledge that shaped the course of modern India 88 years ago
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The Ravi river has run dry in Lahore. But this monument stands as a reminder of its Mughal past
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On Lohri, remembering Dulla Bhatti, the landlord who stood up to the mighty Akbar
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How Pakistani Sikhs fleeing the Taliban made the city of Nankana Sahib a cultural hub
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Zubaida Tariq: The grandmother Pakistan turns to for recipes, household tips or just plain comfort
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Pakistan remembers its Sufi saints fondly. But why has it forgotten their progressive values?
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Katas Raj temple complex is a sad monument to Pakistan’s unease with its Hindu heritage
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Skewed priorities: Lahore’s orange train project stands for all that Nawaz Sharif’s party represents
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Ayodhya parallel: A gurdwara in Lahore was at the core of a bitter battle between Sikhs and Muslims
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The Pakistan protest that brought the government to its knees, and the changing face of Sufi culture
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The revolutionary Udham Singh is just one of the many faces of Punjabi identity
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The legacy of Lala Lajpat Rai: Remembering a fierce nationalist who forever changed India’s politics
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How Nanak’s Muslim followers in Pakistan never abandoned Kartarpur Sahib, his final resting place
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Guru Nanak, Wali Qandhari and other stories about how the city of Hasan Abdal in Pakistan got water
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Sufi traditions, a Sikh past and Islamic influences come together in a Christian shrine in Pakistan
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These banyan trees are proof of Pakistan’s roots in inter-religious peace and harmony
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‘You never forget the sound of a body dropping into the pit’: An eye witness account of an execution