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Hoodbhoy: Musharraf's Coup – Seven Years Later
Commentary, October, 18 2006
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Some had feared - while others had hoped - that General Pervez Musharraf's coup of October 12, 1999, would bring the revolution of Kemal Ataturk to a Pakistan and wrest the country from the iron grip of mullahs. But years later a definitive truth ...
Hoodbhoy: India Through Pakistani Eyes
Commentary, February, 26 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Few Pakistanis get to visit India, the so-called "enemy country", and fewer still to independently assess the development of science and education across its hugely diverse regions. I had the exceptional good fortune to make such a visit recently,...
Hoodbhoy: Terror In Okara
Commentary, May, 24 2003
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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On 11 May 2003, Amer Ali, a 60-year old peasant of Chak 4-L of Okara district, made his last good-neighbourly visit to the adjoining village, Chak 5-L. As the old man hobbled out of his hosts' house to see what was going on, he was cut down by a h...
Hoodbhoy: Is It A War On Islam?
Commentary, February, 03 2003
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Street opinion in Pakistan, and probably most Muslim countries, holds that Islam is the sole target of America's new wars. Even moderate Muslims are
Hoodbhoy: Were We Too Hijacked On 9/11?
Commentary, September, 11 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Al-Qaida had to be bombed, to let the Taliban be was not an option. When fanatics, inspired by Osama bin Laden, flew airliners packed with people into two of America's tallest buildings, it was unreasonable to expect otherwise. So, yes, I agree wi...
Hoodbhoy: The Wages Of Obedience
Commentary, February, 26 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Buried under the rubble of the World Trade Centre lies a decade-worth of Pakistani foreign policy. Faced by a furious United States, PakistanÕs establishment abandoned what had earlier been declared as vital national security interests.
Hoodbhoy: BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD
Commentary, September, 17 2001
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Samuel Huntington's evil desire for a clash between civilizations may well come true after Tuesday's terror attacks. The crack that divided Muslims everywhere from the rest of the world is no longer a crack. It is a gulf, that if not bridged, will...
Hoodbhoy: OUR BLIND NUCLEAR PROPHETS
Commentary, April, 12 2001
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Having thrown away several hundred, I still have in my possession about a hundred newspaper articles on the nuclear issue written in Pakistan and India over the past decade. The authors, overwhelmingly, are establishment nuclear "experts" and "str...
Hoodbhoy: THE MENACE OF EDUCATION
Commentary, September, 14 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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From brain size and hair colour to the shape and texture of toe-nails, every characteristic of an individual is totally determined by just two twisted strands of human DNA. A similar cultural DNA - a society's education system - contains within it...
Hoodbhoy: EQBAL AHMAD: POST-POKHARAN DAYS
Commentary, May, 11 2000
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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He fought for Kashmiri self-determination in 1948, against French imperialism in Algeria in the early 60's, roused students on American campuses in the early 70's against their government's immoral war in Vietnam, dodged arrest by the CIA in a cas...
