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Conflict between India and Pakistan is not new. Periodic spats – some of them widely reported, others less well-known – blight their national histories.[1] When India and Pakistan agreed a full and immediate ceasefire on 10 May 2025, at the end of the recent confrontation, to most observers this was less an end to conflict […]
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The Nobel Prize-winning British American economist Sir Angus Deaton’s (b. 1945) The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton, 2013) is a trenchant critique of a world where inequality prevails and advances in medicine are not matched by equality in care or provision. To Deaton, health and wealth are almost always connected; […]
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Setting the scene Life and faith are mysteries. We enter and experience both through factors beyond our understanding and control. Our parentage and DNA, our appearance and abilities, our predispositions and cultural formation are among life’s ‘givens’, it seems as if by chance. We sometimes – no, often – wish it were not so. Hence, […]
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The American Civil Rights activist and martyr Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968) wisely observed: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ As he continued, ‘We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.’ That is, like a garment without seam, humanity exists in an unbreakable, but […]
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Pakistan is a wonderful, but vulnerable country. Internal politics, religious extremism, and ecological risk plague its life and its international profile. My focus here is on the crippling effects of the recent floods that brought havoc, heartache, and the loss of life to many inside and, I should stress, outside the country. For, Pakistan is […]
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