by Khalid Saleem* *The author is a former Ambassador and former Assistant Secretary General of OIC. Muslim pitted against Muslim. In this sorry pass, the one hope for redemption was the OIC. And yet this Organization has never lived up to its promise. This paper attempts to take a dispassionate look over the shoulder in […]
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By Khalid Saleem[1] ABSTRACT The Simla Agreement of 2 July 1972 represents in many ways a watershed in the relations between Pakistan and India. Despite the fact that large tracts of the agreement in question remain unimplemented to this day, what raises eyebrows is the actuality that successive Congress Party governments in India continue to
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By Khalid Saleem[*] Abstract History is written by the victors and – albeit very occasionally – by ones that got away. When the history of the last decades of the twentieth century is finally written, the crucial turning po,int is bound to be identified as the ill-fated Soviet foray into Afghanistan. The historic upheavals elsewhere
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By Khalid Saleem[1] Verily in the sight of Allah, the most honoured amongst you is the one who is most God-fearing. There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab and for a non-Arab over an Arab, nor for the white over the black, nor for the black over the white, except in God-consciousness”
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Khalid Saleem is a former ambassador and former Assistant Secretary General of the OIC. His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: The Muslim World in a Bind – Whither the Ummah? The USSR’s Last Gamble – The Why and Wherefore Simla Agreement and Beyond OIC – Origin, Record and Prospects!
