There are two great articles in the Guardian today. The first is Ayesha Ijaz Khan’s request the the west should not give up on Pakistan, where she summarizes the past 2 years and where Pakistan is heading. Much like Musharraf, Zardari offers words of concern for places like Swat but few actions. Actions are reserved [...]
Read more →An Open Letter to The Chief Minister and Home Minister of Sindh; After watching your numerous representatives come on television and talk about how law and order is your first priority, I would like to bring to your attention a case of police incompetence that I got to take part in last night. I have [...]
Read more →Henry Chu has recently done a series of articles on Pakistan for the LA Times, but this one sheds an interesting light on Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan. ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Only a year ago, Asif Ali Zardari was best known as the husband of Benazir Bhutto, a highflying businessman with a taste [...]
Read more →In Pakistan, the opposition parties like to quote from The Transparency International Report on Corruption, where Pakistan has an unfavorable ranking… I just wonder how many will be quoting this report in light of the current “judicial crisis” over the suspension of the Chief Justice of Pakistan on charges of nepotism and abuse of power. [...]
Read more →Pakistan is in the grip of an explosive situation. There are those who wish to steer the country toward secularism and there are those who wish to establish an Islamic state in which all public expressions of non-Islamic character are banned. Within this camp, there are differing opinions about how best to establish such a [...]
Read more →I find it hard not to draw similarities between the “judicial crisis” in Pakistan and the Wolfowitz scandal at the World Bank. Both involve cases of nepotism, cronyism and corruption. Both involve a figure that established and portrayed themselves as bastions for justice, good governance and ending corruption at all levels. Yet, I am astounded [...]
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