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Akhtar: The Politics of Musical Chairs
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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South Asianists have long been fascinated by the dynastic trends in the region’s politics. Explaining the longevity of the Nehru-Gandhi family in India, the Bandaranaikes in Sri Lanka, and the Bhuttos in Pakistan has been a favourite subject of ma...
Hayden: Afghanistan, Pakistan & Obama
Znet Article, July, 16 2008
Tom Hayden
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Barack Obama restated his Iraq phased withdrawal play in response to public questioning today but committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Podur: On drug wars and opium fueled insurgencies
Znet Article, July, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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Over the past few days the Americans have hit the Pakistanis at the border and are increasing threats of hot pursuit. Some of the peace deals between frontier forces and militant groups are holding. In other areas, the Taliban have besieged Pakist...
Podur: The writ of the state
Znet Article, July, 08 2008
Justin Podur
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Another couple of days of bombings in Pakistan and Afghanistan, each with its own message and each by a different group. A couple of days ago the Americans hit a wedding party and killed over 20 people in Afghanistan. In Kabul yesterday the Indian...
Hoodbhoy: Anti-Americanism & Taliban
Commentary, July, 02 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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THE recent killing of eleven Pakistani soldiers at Gora Prai by American and Nato forces across the border in Afghanistan unleashed an amazing storm.
Hussain: NATO, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Znet Article, June, 07 2008
Faheem Hussain
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What is NATO doing in Afghanistan? What are the true aims of NATO intervention in the region? These are the questions that I mean to address in this article. To understand what is happening in Afghanistan one has to go back to the attack on Yugosl...
Hoodbhoy: Ten Years Later
Commentary, May, 30 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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It’s May 1998 and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulates wildly cheering citizens as the Chagai mountain trembles and goes white from multiple nuclear explosions. He declares that Pakistan is now safe and sound forever. Bomb makers become natio...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Raina: Essentialising Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 13 2008
Badri Raina
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An Indian view on Benazir Bhutto's murder
Munir: Pakistan Needs Scrutiny Not Charity
Znet Article, October, 09 2007
Kamal Munir
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Pakistan Needs Scrutiny Not Charity
Mian: Pakistan Under Siege
Znet Article, August, 24 2007
Zia Mian
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Pakistan is 60 years old. For over 40 years of its life, it has been ruled directly or indirectly by its army. Each cycle of military rule has left the country in desperate crisis. The rule of General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in 1999...
Akhtar: Popular movement in Pakistan?
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Aasim sajjad Akhtar
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Since March 9 when Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf fired the Chief Justice, a popular movement has been in the making. Ostensibly the Chief Justice was surplus to the general's requirements because he had made one objectionable ...
Mian: Pakistan in the region
Znet Article, May, 18 2007
Zia Mian
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Pakistan in the region
Ahmad: The Gujar Khan Intifada in Pakistan
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
Junaid Ahmad
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The complaints by friends and family never ended: nothing’s happening, nor will it happen, since people, even though the vast majority of them are suffering, are lazy and passive. My stay in Pakistan so far has often encountered such cynic...
