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 →Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote an interesting piece in Foreign Policy magazine called “Zardari’s War.” Markey sets forth a clear analysis of the current situation in Pakistan and where we could be heading if the political and domestic unrest continues. This time, it [...]
Read more →The mood in Pakistan is cheerful – Barack Obama has just been elected president of the world’s most powerful country. Although many Pakistanis have voiced misgivings about some of his comments on terrorism, the general belief seems to be that he will pursue a more enlightened American foreign policy than his predecessor. Then again, Pakistanis’ [...]
Read more →The generation entering professional life towards the mid and late 1990s was uni-focal on Islam and conversant only with Islamic discourse on politics, society and global affairs. They had a natural affinity with Islamic radical elements like the Taliban The September 20 suicide attack in Islamabad was the deadliest so far by Islamic militants based [...]
Read more →Sajjad Ali Shah, one of my favorite ex-judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, who was relieved of his duties as Chief Justice by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in an unconstitutional manner, provided this analysis in today’s DAWN. I HAVE been following with great interest the proceedings of the case of the Chief Justice [...]
Read more →Today’s Daily Times, Pakistan’s leading liberal newspaper, has an outstanding assessment of the recent All Parties Conference held in London. I personally believe that the whole APC is nothing more than an attempt to perform a power grab with the Pakistan’s religious right-wing and the exiled former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. In the next few [...]
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