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A historic photo with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Fatima Jinnah and Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah in Srinagar in 1944.

“Blood Is Thicker Than Water”: Re-reading Sheikh Abdullah’s Remark at the United Nations

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Whether understood as metaphor or as something more layered, the remark reflects how deeply the past continued to inform the present, even in the formal setting of international diplomacy

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