Ahsan Butt @ahsanib Twitter profile

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Ahsan Butt

7 years

Anyone anywhere can LEGALLY download Secession and Security for FREE here or if you prefer individual chapters you can do that here

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

5 years

Indian right to opponents: "Go to Pakistan." Indian right to Kashmiris: "You are Pakistani." Indian liberals to Indian right: "Don't make us a Hindu Pakistan." Indian elections: "Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan." Indians at the UN: "It's offensive to mention us with Pakistan."🤔

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Keep us out of the IPL. Cancel tours at the last minute. When we tour, give us 2 tests max. Ignore us and when you don't, mock us. Go on, keep doing it.

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3 years

A good day to remember that the "moderate" position on blasphemy in Pakistan is that rather than a mob killing you, the state should.

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@ahsanib

5 years

Haris Sohail has scored more runs in five balls than Shoaib Malik did in 3 innings.

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@ahsanib

5 years

India's science and technology universities are sending probes and landers to Mars and the moon. Pakistan's are focused on more important things.

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Darul uloom e engineering lahore.

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@ahsanib

5 years

Paknationalists wondering if they can RT this...

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Even from seven thousand miles away it’s clear that what’s happening in Kashmir is an atrocity. Not much to celebrate this August 15th.

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@ahsanib

6 years

Debut years for Pakistani batsmen who average above 45 in tests: 1976 (Miandad, 53) 1990 (Saeed, 45) 1992 (Inzi, 50) 1998 (Yousuf, 52) 2000 (Younis, 52) 2001 (Misbah, 47) Basically, it's been two decades since Pakistan produced a good batsman.

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@ahsanib

4 years

Where is the jail for professors

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The Master Plan of my dream to build Pakistan’s first knowledge city.

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@ahsanib

4 years

Last Friday, I became a US citizen. To celebrate finally being able to travel like a normal human being, I wrote a blog post about my worst travel experiences on a Pakistani passport. There were so many I had to break it down into two posts. Here's part 1

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@ahsanib

5 years

Poster from the Afghan-Soviet war in the 80s

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@ahsanib

2 years

My piece for AJ Main points 1 This was an intra-elite thing, not mass mobilization 2 Army should learn nurturing proteges doesn't work 3 Hybrid regime set PK back 30 yrs politically 4 Only potential upside: PTI base turns against army role in politics

How will PM Khan’s removal affect Pakistan’s fragile democracy?

Now, out of power, Imran Khan actually has a better chance of striking a blow for democracy and civilian supremacy.

www.aljazeera.com

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@ahsanib

1 year

The closing of ranks by Indian media, the foreign policy/natsec establishment, and even academics has been something to behold. It's actually been pretty scary to watch in real time.

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@ahsanib

2 years

A thread on the Iraq war. I came to the US as a college student in Jan 03 and couldn’t believe the BS people were selling and buying about Saddam + 9/11 and/or nukes. What was obviously nonsense to people outside the US was treated with laughable credulity by Very Serious People.

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@ahsanib

3 years

Pakistan's "official" policy on the Taliban would be a lot more credible if every two bit retired brigadier on Twitter wasn't positively salivating at bodies being hung from bridges.

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@ahsanib

2 years

My basic argument was that the US invaded Iraq to assert hegemony and demonstrate strength to a global audience. Akin to prison yard bullies or drug cartels, the idea is to attack targets to send a message to those watching to submit to your authority.

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@ahsanib

6 years

First of all, his name is not Mian Atif but Atif Mian. Secondly, he is a named professor at Princeton with 12,000 citations whose previous positions were at Chicago and Berkeley. Your EAC was a step down for him, don't get it twisted

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@ahsanib

2 years

PTI voters, welcome to the resistance

Mariam's Madness

@MaddyWithKhan

2 years

There should be a no-confidence motion within @OfficialDGISPR as well.

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@ahsanib

6 years

In case you didn't want to read the 16,000 word version [] I have an op-ed on why the US invaded Iraq for @AJEnglish

Why did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003?

Why did the United States invade Iraq in 2003? Most scholars cite the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a neoconservative desire to spread democracy, or the placating of domest...

www.tandfonline.com

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@ahsanib

6 years

*The Messi two index fingers at the sky thing*

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@ahsanib

6 years

One curious thing about the Atif Mian episode is how little "pressure" there actually was from mullahs and the religious right. There were no street protests or rallies. Only news story I can find about a protest is by...PTI supporters .

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@ahsanib

4 years

I have just received the awful, sickening news that Dr. Sean Kay, my mentor and friend from Ohio Wesleyan, has died. I am in tears writing this.

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@ahsanib

5 years

Nice piece that neglects to mention the most shameful detail: that dead Pakistani soldiers remained unclaimed by their military. The firing may have ended twenty years ago but diplomatically, PK continues to pay the costs of the Kargil disaster to this day

Kargil: The forgotten victims of the world's highest war

Thousands had to flee when a covert Pakistani military operation in Kashmir backfired 20 years ago.

www.bbc.com

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@ahsanib

6 years

Woohoo, it's official! Good time to remind people that my book is free If you're in poli sci and just want to read the theory chapter, or you are a normal, and just want to read the case studies, you can download specific chapters

ISSS@ISA

@ISSS_ISA

6 years

Congratulations to Ahsan Butt, winner of the 2019 ISSS Best Book Award, for his book, Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy Against Separatists (Cornell University Press, 2017). @ahsanib @GeorgeMasonU @CornellPress @isanet

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@ahsanib

6 years

"Pakistan's Military Elite," a new paper in @jststs by @pstanpolitics , Adnan Naseemullah, and me We gathered data on ~200 corps commanders and DGs ISI since 1971 to analyze the organizational politics of the Pakistani army

Pakistan’s military elite

The Pakistan Army is a politically important organization, yet its opacity has hindered academic research. We use open sources to construct unique new data on the backgrounds, careers, and post-ret...

www.tandfonline.com

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@ahsanib

6 years

Announcement: I got tenure. I've imagined my celebration (scotch+watching The Wire a third time) for a while and will be executing it beginning now.

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@ahsanib

1 year

A thread on the cipher. The framing (and headline) of the Intercept article is pretty misleading. It makes it seem like the process was: Imran Khan firmly in power, his stance on Ukraine pisses US off, they institute regime change. That’s not really what happened though.

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@ahsanib

5 years

Here pictured is Pakistan's leadership, and Imran Khan

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

5 years

So tomorrow I start teaching "The Coercive State," a grad course I've been thinking about and wanting to teach for 2-3 years. Really excited about it. Here's the syllabus Thanks to everyone on Twitter who answered my requests for reading suggestions.

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@ahsanib

6 years

I voted, it felt good! In #NA247 , I voted for @MJibranNasir , an inspirational and easy choice. In #PS111 , there was a dearth of quality candidates. I went for party over individual, and spurred by @BBhuttoZardari 's campaign for a progressive Pakistan, voted for @murtazawahab1

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@ahsanib

4 years

Ajmal to Sachin (Mohali, WC '11) LBW replay was doctored by TV producer under threat from BCCI

ESPNcricinfo

@ESPNcricinfo

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What's your most controversial opinion on cricket?

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@ahsanib

4 years

I wrote a piece for @AJEnglish on the EU DisinfoLab report Summary: 1. "5th gen war" is a vapid term 2. Unlike IND support for terrorism, IND propaganda can only be weaponized if PK helps 3. Consequences of report will be mostly harmful for rights in PK

Has a ‘fifth generation war’ started between India and Pakistan?

What do recent revelations about an Indian disinformation campaign against Pakistan tell us about regional dynamics?

www.aljazeera.com

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@ahsanib

6 years

One of the great subplots of Pakistan twitter is this guy's jihad against delivery places

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@ahsanib

5 years

RIP to Paknationalists sudden love for the New York Times, Aug 5 2019 - September 19, 2019

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@ahsanib

6 years

God I wish I was rich. If there are any 17-23 year-olds following me, please don't try to follow your dreams or whatever. Just cash out. The difference between business and economy class is too vast to justify any "self-fulfillment" BS.

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@ahsanib

6 years

I have an article in @SecStudies_Jrnl on why the US invaded Iraq. I argue it was about demonstrating hegemony + sending a "don't mess with us" message, and nothing to do w/ WMD, oil, Israel, or democracy Free to read for 6 months (thanks @Rout_PoliticsIR !)

Why did the United States Invade Iraq in 2003?

Why did the United States invade Iraq in 2003? Most scholars cite the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a neoconservative desire to spread democracy, or the placating of domest...

www.tandfonline.com

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@ahsanib

6 years

@andresiniesta8 @PetrCech Creo que hay una mejor foto

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@ahsanib

5 years

Eagerly awaiting a 90 minute press conference from the DG ISPR on this news

JeM chief Masood Azhar added to UN terror list after China removes objections

FO says the listing was agreed after "India's references to malign Pakistan, undermine Kashmir movement were removed."

www.dawn.com

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@ahsanib

2 years

I wrote a piece for @USIP how desperately South Asia needs climate cooperation 1 Vulnerability of SA + threat being transnational = lots to be gained from Ind/Pak/Bang talking 2 Diplomatically, reparations claims much stronger coming from 2 bn people

It’s Time for South Asia to Talk Climate

That India and Pakistan are engaged in backchannel track 2 diplomacy is the worst kept secret in South Asia. It does not take a vivid imagination to guess what dominates the agenda at these talks:...

www.usip.org

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@ahsanib

4 years

To help you understand the India-Pakistan ceasefire, our panel will feature an Indian diplomat, an Indian security official, an Indian journalist, and two Indian academics. We hope to challenge precisely zero of our audience's assumptions. Please join us.

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@ahsanib

5 years

I wrote a blogpost, ranking each of Pakistan's 14 straight losses in Australia

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@ahsanib

6 years

One year late with this, but cannot recommend Owen Bennett Jones' podcast series on the BB assassination highly enough Even if you read the article version (which I did last year), still really worth it.

BBC World Service - The Assassination - Available now

Available episodes of The Assassination

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

3 years

My book is out in paperback (only $20)! It examines the causes of separatist war, and why some of these wars become extremely violent.

Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists (Cornell Studies in Security...

Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

www.amazon.com

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@ahsanib

4 years

Owen Bennett Jones' new book (highly recommended) says that Zardari would speak for 40 mins at a stretch in meetings w/ Obama. Told him that while he [BO] was surrounded by many highly educated people, he [AZ] had a PhD in life. Obama tried to avoid 1-on-1 meetings after that😂😂

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@ahsanib

6 years

I tried to make the case that Imran Khan is a right wing mullah, the "yes" side in this debate in Dawn

Is Imran Khan an extremist?

Critical appraisal of leaders is the right of citizens ─ after all, Khan himself has often called for accountability.

www.dawn.com

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@ahsanib

2 years

Thus was born my motivation to write my paper on the causes of the invasion (here’s a free copy , here’s a 1000-word op-ed length version ).

Why did Bush go to war in Iraq?

No, it wasn’t because of WMDs, democracy or Iraqi oil. The real reason is much more sinister than that.

www.aljazeera.com

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5 years

"In Imran Khan, the generals have found a rare entity: a populist who is eager to collaborate because even he isn’t sure whether he was elected or selected." Great piece by @mohammedhanif

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@ahsanib

4 years

I have a lot of random memories of @Nadir_Hassan . We were very close in high school. We drifted apart during and after college. But I really cherish the times we had. He was extremely bright and had a great sense of humor.

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@ahsanib

5 years

England are good but they are not "easy wins against India + New Zealand" good. Pretty disappointing from those two. Anyway, that's that. The Sri Lanka washout really burns right now. Also showing up to day 1 of the WC like a hungover 21 year-old on spring break didn't help.

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@ahsanib

7 years

Worst thing about this is how happy it makes the biggest pricks in Pakistan, from IK to Friends of Army On Twitter to Sindh Club uncles.

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2 months

RIP to an absolute giant. Did things differently, like "I'm going to write a chapter on soil" or "tell PhD students to read fiction". The realest of real ones whose work will live for a long, long time.

Gerardo L. Munck

@GerardoMunck

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𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇

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7 years

How about the occasional pull up or sit up?

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"Get up dress up show up and never give up"

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3 years

Re: IK's rape comments, he's been a mullah for 25 yrs. This is a pretty anodyne observation for most people but when I made the argument [] after his 2018 (s)election, I was subject to A LOT of abuse by PTI supporters. Hope some have changed their mind.

Is Imran Khan an extremist?

Critical appraisal of leaders is the right of citizens ─ after all, Khan himself has often called for accountability.

www.dawn.com

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3 years

IPL fans be like "damn, Shaheen and Babar can actually play?"

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3 years

I'm starting a (hopefully regular) cricket column for Dawn. It will be called Outside Edge. First piece is on the lack of an Andre Russell-style power hitter in our white ball teams (or domestic circuit more generally)

OUTSIDE EDGE: THE ANDRE RUSSELL-SIZED HOLE

What the recently concluded HBL PSL6 has demonstrated is that Pakistan’s most pressing weakness is the lack of a power...

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6 months

@BrankoMilan There is an entire literature on this exact question.

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@ahsanib

5 years

Oh ho Barkha, yeh kya baat? What about house arrests in Balochistan, FATA, Xinjiang, Guantanamo, World War 2, Mahmud of Ghazni's invasion, Sparta etc? Shameful tweet.

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@BDUTT

5 years

Slapping PSA against eighty plus Farooq Abdullah is totally senseless. He has been under house arrest for over a month without any explanation for what law he has broken.The more you punish those who have stood with India, the more you embolden extremists and militants. #Kashmir

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6 years

If only there were Pakistani economists at places like Princeton or Harvard willing to work for this government, alas!

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Dearth of economic experts in Finance Ministry irks PM

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4 years

I have a piece in @TheNatlInterest on India, Pakistan, and Kashmir Basic argument is that 1. S. Asia is, by far, world's most dysfunctional region 2. Solutions to Kashmir exist if IND+PK want to see them 3. IND+PK owe their citizens a deal

Clash of the Titans: India and Pakistan Continue to Battle Over

But if the two countries are interested, there are a few viable solutions to the decades-old conflict.

nationalinterest.org

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@ahsanib

7 years

So after 8 years, lots of "you're quite dumb" critiques and even more "I want to quit" conversations, my book is out

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5 years

Indian commentators ranked: 1. Ganguly [A fair distance] 2. Harsha [400 metric tons of steaming cow dung] 3. Sanjay

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2 years

Pakistan fans have gone from "sack Babar" to "we're winning the WC, it's 92 again" without us actually playing one ball

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6 years

I'm restarting @FiveRupees now that I have tenure and actual time to blog. New address:

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1 year

Bajwa was going to get rid of IK regardless of that meeting. If Army wants something but US doesn’t (e.g. Benazir or her dad being killed), it happens. If Army doesn’t want something but the US does (e.g. fighting the Taliban), it doesn’t happen. So army, not US, is key.

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"Colonizability of Africa" (1899)

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Raza Ahmad Rumi

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یہ ایسی ویڈیو ہے جس پہ یوں تو کسی وضاحت یا تبصرے کہ ضرورت نہ ہے۔ بس اتنا ہی کہوں گا کہ بہتر سال سے جو بویا وہ کاٹنا تو پڑے گا۔

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Me trying to explain why test cricket is so awesome to 190 countries

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Blog post on Moeed Yusuf and his Uighur comments

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4 years

@KCJHoop Not seeing them again? So he doesn't think PHX has a shot at the finals?

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@ahsanib

6 years

I have an article forthcoming in @SecStudies_Jrnl on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003 (draft version here ). The basic argument is about hegemonic status and reputation.

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@ahsanib

6 years

Tum karo toh disco, hum karein toh ECL #cyril #DawnLeaks

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On Monday, PM Imran Khan gave a rare background briefing to news show hosts in which he reportedly emphasized that the time had come to do more to crack down on militant groups.

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5 years

Blog post for @FiveRupees on what just happened in Kashmir

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1 year

Call me a pedant but I think it's more like “I stood with them when they came after you but now they’re coming after me so please stand with me against them.”

PTI

@PTIofficial

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" They are not coming after me, They're coming after You. I'm just standing in their way." #ReleaseImranKhan

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5 years

Absolutely gutted for New Zealand, the people's champions. Best final ever but England undeserved winners.

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6 years

You are a world historical, grade A idiot

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@ImranKhanPTI

6 years

Beginning to wonder why whenever Nawaz Sharif is in trouble, there is increasing tension along Pakistan's borders and a rise in terrorist acts? Is it a mere coincidence?

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7 years

@ishaantharoor Every tweet builds on the other like some beautiful, breathtaking pyramid of stupidity.

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6 years

Been a surreal day. Indians + India-focused people on my TL are trying to figure out Modi's escalation strategy. Pakistanis are discussing PSL. No tweet or statement from Imran Khan. No response from Gov of Pakistan beyond this frankly awful press release

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The reaction has basically been " (1) We didn't do it, but (2) even if we did, we were justified. Oh and btw, (3) Trudeau publicizing it helps Modi's reelection."

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@wojespn Not sure what's more pathetic, that the agent wanted you to tweet this or that you actually did so.

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3 years

With Putin's speeches and all these demographic maps of Eastern Europe floating around, thought it would be a good time to remind ourselves of the 7 rules of nationalism

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3 years

My latest Outside Edge column is on the damage Ramiz Raja has already done and wondering how much more he could do

OUTSIDE EDGE: PRIMED TO DO MORE DAMAGE?

Though brief, Ramiz Raja’s first time in charge of Pakistan cricket still had severe long-term reverberations. Now, within two

www.dawn.com

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The Boult trod on the boundary, the Bairstow lbw not given first ball, the last over deflection which I will go to my grave knowing was intentional, the stupid rule of a tied super over being decided on who scored more boundaries (?), and that's just today.

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Lol. "35-A a red herring, it's really about Pakistan" is peak BD. Taliban ascendancy --> Mehbooba Mufti, Sajid Lone, and Omar Abdullah being put under house arrest and the internet being cut off. Genius.

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@BDUTT

5 years

Pakistan response appears to confirm my theory-35A is a red herring, not the story at all. Threat assessment is external, deployment seems in response to a possible Afghanistan/Taliban ascendancy & spillover, possibly enabled by China, with US looking other way as it exits..

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I’m chuffed to see this argument get some mainstream acknowledgement and attention (e.g. NYT or Foreign Affairs ). But there are still many holdouts (at least in US intelligentsia circles) that WMD was a fair/reasonable explanation.

Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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5 years

@KCJHoop Your perennial defenses of Garpax now make more sense.

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Part of me is really not surprised b/c I've seen a lot of this before but part of me is surprised b/c this situation is so unprecedented that you'd think someone would step back and ask "Are we the baddies?" But nope.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished into the Indian Ocean five years ago, and we still don’t know why. The explanation lies not in the sea but on land—in Malaysia, where officials know more than they dare to say. William Langewiesche reports:

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4 years

A cool opportunity that I'm looking forward to. First order of business is to advertise this call for papers and special issues/forums on race and security If you work in these areas, pls submit. If you know someone who does, pls encourage them to do so.

Security Studies

@SecStudies_Jrnl

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Security Studies is thrilled to announce that Ahsan Butt of George Mason University will be joining the editorial team as of August 1 and that Sheena Chestnut Greitens of the University of Texas at Austin will join a month later. Welcome, @ahsanib and @SheenaGreitens !

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@umairjav He's probably better.

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3 years

What are the best novels and films on war/violence you have come across? Next semester I am (super excited to be) teaching "War in Fiction and Film" for the first time. Am looking for any suggestions, especially for categories with a ?

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

8 years

Decoding The Myth Of Burhan Wani - And What Delhi Is Ignoring Again via @ndtv

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@ahsanib

6 years

Too good, @mohammedhanif got the word "chutiya" into the frigging New York Times Also, "garmi mein kharab" is translated as "wasting away in the heat" #memories

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

2 years

Tragic irony is that all this insane chaos comes directly from badly conceived plans for "order" and "stability".

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

4 years

@ishaantharoor Real election starts now. In the hands of lawyers and judges, like the founders intended.

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

3 months

@umairjav And zero drugs, fixing, controversies, captaincy conspiracies etc

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

1 year

The cipher, which is not even an American document but a Pakistani one, does not suggest US was pushing for regime change, only that it would be happy/happier when it happened. There is a significant difference between those positions.

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

3 years

@asadmkh @darkestimeline What happened to legos?

Community - Lego

Interesting question.

www.youtube.com

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

6 years

@nktpnd The jingoism in the media is only on one side.

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Ahsan Butt

@ahsanib

2 years

These claims are, IMO, bogus. Myth 1: Saddam was hiding that he didn’t have weapons. WRONG. In late 02+early 03, Saddam opened up his country to inspectors and they went thru more than 500 sites more than 700 times and turned up nothing.

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@ahsanib

10 years

Very classy: New Zealand captain donates entire series' match fees to Peshawar victims http://t.co/npfbyrnKEA

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