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Tripathi: India's High-Stakes Foreign Policy
Znet Article, October, 12 2010
Deepak Tripathi
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Analysis of President Obama's forthcoming India visit in November 2010 and the evolution of Indian foreign policy over the last sixty years.
Cockburn: Is Pakistan Falling Apart?
Znet Article, October, 10 2010
Patrick Cockburn
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Is Pakistan disintegrating? Are the state and society coming apart under the impact of successive political and natural disasters? The country swirls with rumors about the fall of the civilian government or even a military coup.
Sarwar: Stop War, Play Tennis
Znet Article, September, 30 2010
Beena Sarwar
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Who would have predicted that an Indian and a Pakistani would team up for tennis doubles.
Hoodbhoy: Pakistan's Universities
Commentary, September, 27 2010
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Upset by drastic budget cuts imposed by the finance ministry, the vice-chancellors of 71 public sector universities are threatening to resign en-bloc. They rightly say that development projects are grounded, bills unpaid, and some buildings only h...
Qureshi: Pakistan Relief Efforts
Znet Article, September, 19 2010
Yasmin Qureshi
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More than 20 million people are impacted by the floods in Pakistan and more than 1.2 million homes destroyed.
Authors: LPP Karachi Statement on Flooding
Znet Article, August, 24 2010
Many Authors
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LPP Karachi Statement on Flooding
Raman: Kashmir in Turmoil
Znet Article, August, 09 2010
Akhila Raman
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Kashmir Valley has been in turmoil over the past two months with tens of thousands taking to the streets in protest against killings of civilians by the Indian State which is seen as an occupying power by many of the people in Kashmir valley.
Brollier: The World Cup Of Economic And Military Warfare
Znet Article, June, 03 2010
Josh Brollier
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Just about everyone we have spoken with, Pashtuns included, has little to no sympathy for the Taliban or their tactics. Many people have lost limbs, homes and loved ones to the brutal assaults of suicide bombers or the indiscriminate violence of I...
Hallinan: Of Drone Wars and Buffalo Urine
Znet Article, May, 23 2010
Conn Hallinan
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Has the drone war in Pakistan's rugged frontier finally come home? Was Faisal Shahzad, the bumbling Times Square bomb maker, a blowback from the Obama administration's increased use of killer robots? David Sanger of The New York Times asks the que...
Hoodbhoy: Why Faisal Shahzad Bombed Times Square
Commentary, May, 08 2010
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The man who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was a Pakistani.
Akhtar: The Violence of the Weak
Znet Article, April, 22 2010
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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Is it not hegemonic that the onus is on the oppressed to be the flagbearers of non-violence?
Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'
Znet Article, March, 20 2010
Robert Fisk
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If you want to know how brutally Pakistan treats its people, you should meet Amina Janjua. An intelligent painter and interior designer, she sits on the vast sofa of her living room in Rawalpindi – a room that somehow accentuates her loneliness – ...
Cole: Gates Strikes Out In Pakistan
Znet Article, February, 06 2010
Juan Cole
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates's trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and I think it is fair to say that he came away empty-handed with regard to his chief policy goals in Islamabad. Getting Pakistan...
Kelly: Speaking Truth to Power
Commentary, January, 10 2010
Kathy Kelly
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There's a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak Truth to Power." One can hardly speak more directly to power than addressing the Presidential Administration of the United States. This past October, stu...
Siddiqi: Obama's surge and Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 03 2010
Shibil Siddiqi
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President Barack Obama recently announced an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, outlining plans to send an additional 30,000 troops.
Hoodbhoy: Is The Check In The Mail?
Znet Article, December, 17 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
Hear ye, Counterpunch readers! The victory of Native Orientalists - the ones which the late Edward Said had warned us about - is nearly complete in Pakistan.
Hoodbhoy: Can India and Pakistan Fight Terror Together?
Commentary, December, 15 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Inseparable by geography, Pakistan and India are Siamese twins that have emerged together from the womb of history. For better or for worse, their futures will always remain inextricably tied together.
Kantar: International Law: The First Casualty of the Drone War
Znet Article, December, 11 2009
Max Kantar
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This report utilizes well-established principles of both treaty and customary international law as a measuring stick for attempting to determine the legal and moral legitimacy of the covert U.S. policy of using drones to attack targets in Pakistan...
Hoodbhoy: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
Akhtar: Turbulent Tribes
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
Akhtar's ZSpace page
The Pakistani state has for the best part of these 62 years ensured that Waziristan remains a strategic enclave for the pursuit of regional geo-political objectives.
