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Hoodbhoy: The Curious Case of Osama bin Laden
Znet Article, May, 04 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Bin Laden’s death should be regarded as a transformational moment by Pakistan and its military
Hoodbhoy: Pakistan awaiting the clerical tsunami
Znet Article, January, 23 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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On January 4, Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s largest province, was gunned down by his own security guard, Mumtaz Qadri.
Hoodbhoy: Drones: Theirs And Ours
Znet Article, November, 23 2010
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A drone – of the kind discussed here – is a programmed killing machine. By definition it is self-propelled, semi-autonomous, and capable of negotiating difficult local environments.
Hoodbhoy: Is The Check In The Mail?
Znet Article, December, 17 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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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: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
Znet Article, November, 04 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A stern, unyielding version of Islam is replacing the kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis in Pakistan.
Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism: a View from the Left
Znet Article, July, 13 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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It is both healthy and necessary for the Left to keep seeking new utopias and to re-imagine the outlines of a future classless society. But to pretend away the ugliness of the real world – or to think that all conflict today is class conflict â€...
Hoodbhoy: Whither Pakistan? A five-year forecast
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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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.
Hoodbhoy: Towards Theocracy?
Znet Article, March, 15 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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For 20 years or more, a few of us in Pakistan have been desperately sending out SOS messages, warning of terrible times to come. Nevertheless, none anticipated how quickly and accurately our dire predictions would come true. It is a small matter t...
Hoodbhoy: The Mumbai Massacre And Pakistan's New Nightmares
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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In spite of vociferous demands by the Indian public, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has withstood the pressure to conduct cross-border strikes into Pakistan. Correspondingly, in spite of the bitter criticism by Islamic parties, Pakista...
Hoodbhoy: Pakistan's Westward Drift
Znet Article, September, 08 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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For three decades, deep tectonic forces have been silently tearing Pakistan away from the Subcontinent and driving it towards the Arabian Peninsula. This continental drift is not geophysical but cultural, driven by a belief that Pakistan must exch...
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...
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...
Hoodbhoy: Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement
Znet Article, August, 03 2007
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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This article grew out of the Max von Laue Lecture that I delivered earlier this year to celebrate that eminent physicist and man of strong social conscience. When Adolf Hitler was on the ascendancy, Laue was one of the very few German physicists o...
Hoodbhoy: Islamabad succumbs
Znet Article, May, 18 2007
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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After his ill-advised dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan's supreme court ignited violent protest, President Pervez Musharraf may be banking on Islamic fanatics to create chaos in the nation's capital, Islamabad. Many suspect that an engine...
Hoodbhoy: No Burial For Balakot
Znet Article, October, 14 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Four days later, they are still not even trying to extricate the dead in the town of Balakot, flattened by an earthquake that hit Northern Pakistan on the morning of October 8. From under the rubble of collapsed buildings, a gut-wrenching smell of...
Hoodbhoy: Bin Laden And Hiroshima
Znet Article, August, 06 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. Whit...
