The South Asian Idea
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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 164 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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All About Ali Baba
I watched with surprise a leading commentator state that the country was facing an existential crisis, then go on to advise all the stakeholders — Establishment, politicians, bureaucrats, leading industrialists and landowners — to sit down...
The Peshawar Review – Issue 8, August 2026
The August issue of The Peshawar Review is out for reading.
Once again we have an interesting selection to offer. Anjum Altaf presents his much-loved prose-poem, T. S. Eliot’s Hysteria, in Urdu. From Agra (where else?), Angela Ali brings b...
There is a Way to End the War
There is a simple, nonviolent, Gandhian way to end the American-Israeli aggression in Iran but that is not how it will end. My purpose in exploring why not is to infer what that reveals about our world at this time.
The parameters on which...
The Peshawar Review - Issue 7, July 2026
The July issue of The Peshawar Review is out for reading. From Swat Zubair Torwali reflects on unrequited love; finding prose inadequate to express his pain he adds a poem in his native language (Torwali) with his own translation into Engli...
Economics and Religion
There was a two-page lead article in Dawn on Eid ul Azha this year about the economics of the event highlighting its significance by pegging the related spending at 60 percent of the state’s annual development expenditure.
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Dr Anjum Altaf earned his PhD from Stanford University. He was Professor of Economics and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
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