This morning’s Daily Times carried a stunning headline for Pakistanis. Asif Ali Zardari, to clarify “the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan” stated that ”Obviously, the world is a safer place,” he said. “It could have been worse,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday. Can I ask which world Zardari is talking [...]
Read more →An Op-Ed piece from this morning’s Boston Globe by our own Asif Ali Zardari. For your consumption and comments. There are moments in history that define nations, and also define men. For Pakistan, we have reached a critical crossroad that will determine the nature of our future, or if we will have one. I have [...]
Read more →You know most people in Pakistan have the tolerance to listen to hack politicians like Imran Khan jabber about the state of the country because of their memory of him as a cricket star, but I think that he has gone one step too far in publicly endorsing Condoleezza Rice’s comments about Shaukat Aziz. To [...]
Read more →This Op-Ed piece was picked up from the Sunday Daily Dawn. Great reading and posted here for your consumption. THE Economist of London described General Musharraf’s autobiography as “laughingly vainglorious”. That description equally fits his reaction to the gang warfare and pillage in Karachi on May 12. Three days and 40 deaths later, according to [...]
Read more →A few weeks ago, when the South Asian Tribune ran a story that the United States was planning a coup to remove General Musharraf from power, I honestly didn’t put alot of thought into it. There is always a coup of some kind in process in Pakistan, whether it comes from the religio-fascists that don’t [...]
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