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'Death of a Princess': Adultery and execution in Saudi Arabia
By Katia YoussefInterview
In 1980, a drama was screened in the UK which was to reshape perceptions of Saudi Arabia, a key Middle East ally. Death of a Princess followed the short life of Princess Mishael, a 19-year-old.

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How Queiroz took Iran to the World Cup
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Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2014. Argentina vs Iran. Iran make only 114 passes in the whole match, the lowest amount for 50 years in a World Cup, but after 90 minutes they’re holding football’s finest.
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Devinder Sharma on India's Agriculture Crisis
By By Avinash Giri & Shristi SinhaInterview
Agriculture directly and indirectly occupies 70 percent of India’s workforce but comprises only 14 percent of the GDP. Despite this topsy-turvy fiscality, the country’s policymakers have long disdained.
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The new and real Bangladesh paradox
By William Milam Interview
I had thought of writing again this week about the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM). It has had an interesting two weeks since I wrote about it. It has burnished its credentials.
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President Assad Will Outlast Trump Presidency: Envoy
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Trans Asia News spoke to Dr. Riad Abbas, Ambassador of Syrian Arab Republic to India on topics ranging from ongoing Astana negotiations to future American role and the reconstruction of the war ravaged country.

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Jinnah did not want Partition: Ayesha Jalal

When [people at American universities] think of South Asia, they primarily think of India and that has been a problem. One had to fight with this limitation. I have never taught a course on Pakistan.

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Ali Usman Qasmi

Oct 31, 2017
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The Many, Many Things We Don’t Know About Baba Ramdev

Ram Kisan Yadav, aka Baba Ramdev, has been one of the most public figures in India since he started revolving his stomach on Sanskar TV in 2002. As Priyanka Pathak-Narain notes in her closely-researched book.

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OMAIR AHMAD

Oct 31, 2017
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Syrian War Nearing Its End, Says Grand Mufti

Islam is a religion of peace and had never waged a war against anyone, and gives shelter to others. We are standing at the gate of victory in Syria and soon we will announce “Syria is free from foreign fighters”.

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TANS

Oct 01, 2017
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‘Let the people of J&K decide what they want’

Professor at the Daniel K Inouye Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Dr Christopher Snedden is also a politico-strategic intelligence analyst and security practitioner who specialises in South Asia.

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MAJID MAQBOOL

Apr 29, 2017
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When Saudi Arabia asked Indian journalist not to write on Muslim issues

An Indian Muslim journalist working for a Saudi daily newspaper Al-Riyadh was ‘forced’ to quit his job for reporting on excesses faced by Muslims in Kashmir and Gujarat.

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Ashraf Ali Bastawi

Feb 08, 2017
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So called Islamist violence is ‘in part a product of Western disdain’

Karen Armstrong, British scholar of comparative religion, finds that there is a long and inglorious tradition of distorting Islam in Europe. She criticises the notion that Islam is more violent.

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TANS

Nov 27, 2016

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