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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.
Barsamian: Whither Pakistan?
Zmag Article, October, 01 2009
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
An interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy, activist and physicist
Kolko: Escalation is futile in a war in which complexity defies might
Commentary, September, 24 2009
Gabriel Kolko
Kolko's ZSpace page
The US scarcely knew what a complex disaster it was confronting when it went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. It will eventually - perhaps years from now - suffer the same fate as Alexander the Great, the British and the Soviet Union: def...
Ali: The march of the skeletons
Znet Article, September, 14 2009
Mahir Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
Going by the rate at which former operatives from a plethora of military and other agencies have been emerging from the woodwork and spilling the beans in Pakistan, it almost seems as if someone went around spiking their preferred beverages with t...
Hoodbhoy: India's Nuclear Fizzle - What Should Pakistan Do?
Commentary, September, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
As is well known, a thermonuclear (or hydrogen) bomb is far more complex than the relatively simple fission weapon first tested by India in 1974 and by Pakistan in 1998. Advanced weapons needs fine-tuning to achieve their full destructiveness - Fr...
Walia: Military Aid or Raid: War on Terror Expands to Pakistan
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
Harsha Walia
Walia's ZSpace page
On the eve of the 62nd anniversary of India's and Pakistan's independence from British rule, Obama justified the war on Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak) by evoking Bush's mantra: “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 ar...
Mian: Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink
Znet Article, August, 06 2009
Zia Mian
Mian's ZSpace page
The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye t...
Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Juan Cole
Cole's ZSpace page
Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That's certainly one for the reco...
Hoodbhoy: Preventing A Taliban Victory
Commentary, June, 21 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
Now that the army has turned serious, Baitullah Mehsud cannot expect to stroll down Constitution Avenue any time soon, nor hope to sit in the presidency. A few thousand mountain barbarians, even if trained by Al Qaeda's best, cannot possibly seize...
Porter: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
Znet Article, June, 16 2009
Gareth Porter
Porter's ZSpace page
Intelligence analysts have been unable to obtain either the list of military targets of the drone strikes or the actual results in terms of al Qaeda or civilians killed, according to a Washington source familiar with internal discussion of the dro...
Kelly: Down and Out in Shah Mansoor
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
In Pakistan's Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform size tents are set up in hundreds of rows.
Hoodbhoy: Whither Pakistan? A five-year forecast
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
First, the bottom line: Pakistan will not break up; there will not be another military coup; the Taliban will not seize the presidency; Pakistan's nuclear weapons will not go astray; and the Islamic sharia will not become the law of the land.
Sulehria: "War on terror" causes mass exodus in Swat
Znet Article, May, 20 2009
Farooq Sulehria
Sulehria's ZSpace page
The longer the USA stays in Afghanistan, the longer the Taliban's defeat will be delayed and the suffering of the poor masses prolonged.
Baroud: The Drones Are Coming: New War on Civilians
Znet Article, May, 14 2009
Ramzy Baroud
Baroud's ZSpace page
US President Barack Obama took the podium in a White House press conference and stood with an all-embellished confidence that often accompanies new presidents. He was flanked by two leaders whose apparent grandeur barely reflected their embattled ...
Akhtar: Pakistan War Intensifies
Znet Article, May, 09 2009
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
Akhtar's ZSpace page
The fact of the matter is that for all of ‘civil society's clamouring for military action against the Taliban, the infrastructure of jihad that has been so carefully cultivated by the Pakistani military for decades (with Washington very much ...
Raina: The Pakistan Problem - II
Znet Article, April, 24 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Routinely during India's routine “communal riots,†it is seen that there are those who. weapon in hand, set out to kill in the name of their religion, and, others who, despite belonging to the same religion, seek to save the hapless victi...
Usmani: Pakistan, they say, is over
Znet Article, April, 24 2009
Adaner Usmani
Usmani's ZSpace page
My last few weeks in this country have wrought a tide of lazy sociology.
Solomon: Democrats and War Escalation
Commentary, April, 08 2009
Norman Solomon
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Top Democrats and many prominent supporters -- with vocal agreement, tactical quibbles or total silence -- are assisting the escalation of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The predictable results will include much more killing and ...
Raina: The Pakistan Problem
Znet Article, April, 07 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Now suppose that the post-Independence Indian State had been constituted as Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha, Golwalker and the RSS had wished it to be constituted - a theocratic Hindu one.
