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Hoodbhoy: Where Billions Vanish
Commentary, April, 20 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, aided by his trusted lieutenant and chairman of the Higher Education Commission, Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, lays claim to a 'revolutionary programme' that has reversed the decades-old decline of Pakistan's universities.
Alam: The Dauntless Sisters of Pakistan
Znet Article, April, 18 2008
Muhammad badar Alam
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Elections in Pakistan produce more slogans than solutions. The parliamentary polls held on February 18, 2008, are no different. One of the leading slogans raised in the wake of this election was the restoration of the Supreme Court judges sacked a...
Engelhardt: Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Znet Article, March, 16 2008
Tom Engelhardt
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Imagine, for a moment, that you live in a small town somewhere near the Southern California coast. You're going about your daily life, trying to scrape by in hard times, when the missile hits. It might have come from the Iranian unmanned aerial ve...
Pilger: The Quiet Rendition Of Moudud Ahmed
Commentary, March, 13 2008
John Pilger
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The extraordinary life of Moudud Ahmed, who in 1971 led Pilger into liberated East Pakistan, later Bangladesh. Now a political prisoner of the military dictatorship in Dhaka, Moudud Ahmed is seriously ill in a country which, says his wife Hasna, "...
Hoodbhoy: The War Of Drones
Znet Article, March, 09 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Drones, machine and human, have drenched Pakistan with the blood of innocents. On the one side are US-made drones such as the MQ-1B General Dynamics Predator - a remote controlled, self-propelled, missile-bearing aerial system. On the other side a...
Barsamian: Pakistan in Peril
Zmag Article, March, 01 2008
David Barsamian
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Fatima Bhutto published her first book, Whispers of the Desert, a collection of poetry, when she was 15. She is a graduate of Columbia and the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Her articles appear in the LA Times, CounterPunch, and ot...
Cole: The Unraveling Of Pervez Musharraf's Presidency Has Dealt A Severe Blow To Bush's Fatally Flawed Policy In The Region
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Juan Cole
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Feb. 20, 2008 | The party that slavishly supported Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf went down to a humiliating defeat in Monday's election, and took the failing fortunes of the Bush administration to a new nadir. Musharraf's main political riva...
Ali: Now that Spring is in the Air
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Mahir Ali
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Many of those who greeted the advent of the general’s rule as some sort of a daybreak subsequently found plenty of cause for disillusionment.
Raina: Well Done
Znet Article, February, 23 2008
Badri Raina
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For the wary, let me say that it is not my incautious case that democracy has finally arrived in Pakistan (when does anything ever arrive finally?). An election, alas, does not a democracy make all by itself.
Ali: Et Tu, New York Times?
Znet Article, February, 13 2008
Tariq Ali
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The New York Times' recently awoken sense of justice was dormant when Musharraf sacked the independent-minded judges, whose sin was ordering the release of the 'terrorists' imprisoned without proof or trial.
Ali: The Ghost at the Electoral Feast
Znet Article, February, 11 2008
Mahir Ali
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Scotland Yard’s reputation across the Commonwealth as the last word in crime detection is starkly at odds with the manner in which it has long been lampooned in British fiction and film as a repository of well-intentioned but less than sparkling b...
Usher: Mixed signals – Pakistan after Bhutto
Znet Article, February, 08 2008
Graham Usher
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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi on December 27 brought home the gravity of Pakistan’s crisis. That she was its latest martyr added a terrible poignancy, and not just because she was the third of her family to have been politicall...
Margolis: Pakistan, Cambodia ... it's all the same to U.S.
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Eric Margolis
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Last week, Defence Secretary Robert Gates stated the U.S. is "willing" to send a "small number" of U.S. combat troops to Pakistan to fight the spreading insurgency in its Pashtun tribal areas.
Ali: Strategies for Survival
Znet Article, February, 04 2008
Mahir Ali
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“WHATEVER the outcome of the Pakistani elections ... the existing multiethnic Pakistani state is unlikely to survive for long unless it is radically restructured.” “Can there be democracy if there is no independent judiciary?” “Do we need enemies ...
Ireland: London's OutRage! Leader Blocks Pakistani Strongman's Limo
Znet Article, February, 01 2008
Doug Ireland
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Peter Tatchell of Britain's militant LGBT rights group, Outrage!, confronts Pakistan's Musharraf.
Hoodbhoy: Pakistan's Universities
Znet Article, January, 27 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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General Pervez Musharraf's regime boasts of its successes in science and education at home and abroad. Recently, I saw Pakistan's successes trumpeted by a large official delegation headed by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, the chairman of the Higher Education...
Ali: The Pakistan Pickle
Znet Article, January, 25 2008
Mahir Ali
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SOME eight years ago, when Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush was asked to name the military officer behind Pakistan’s recent coup d’etat, he racked his insubstantial brain and came up with a category rather than a name: “General...” A...
Hoodbhoy: Pakistan's Nuclear Threat
Znet Article, January, 19 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A cacophony of protests in Pakistan greeted a recent statement by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammad ElBaradei. "I fear that chaos, or an extremist regime, could take root in that country, which has 30 to 40 warheads," he...
Lendman: Using Bhutto for Imperial Gain
Znet Article, January, 15 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Benazir Bhutto led the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) as "chairperson for life" until her death. She was the privileged daughter of former Pakistan President and Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged in 1979 at the likely behest of Wa...
Ali: Pakistan's Plight
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
Tariq Ali
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With Pervez Musharraf trying to cling to power whatever the cost, a farcical succession within the Pakistan People's Party, and continued US interference, Pakistan's dark night is far from over. A multidimensional charade is taking place in Pakist...
