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Javed Jabbar | September 17, 2019 | Published in DAWN. Every year is full of anniversaries, happy, middling and sad. Sept 17 is particularly tragic. On this day, in 1948, India attacked the landlocked Hyderabad state from five sides, and a miniscule defending army and a dishevelled militia were crushed by huge numbers of troops,

Javed Jabbar | September 17, 2019 | Publish in The News Though 71 years separate September 17, 1948 and August 5, 2019, there is a dark direct connection between the two dates. The first date marks the forced annexation of the princely state of Hyderabad Deccan by the Indian state. The second marks an attempt

Javed Jabbar | August 14, 2019 | Publish in Dawn | THE election 2018 slogan of creating a ‘Naya’ (new) Pakis­tan was clearly a sincerely meant theme to express the PTI’s perspective. Yet it is only the latest articulation of a vision that was originally born with the very emergence of Pakistan 72 years ago.