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Hoodbhoy: Let Us Become — Proudly — Bayghairat
Znet Article, May, 11 2012
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The more morally and intellectually bankrupt a leader, the louder he thunders about qaumi ghairat (national honour)
Hoodbhoy: Why Karachi Burns Again And Again
Znet Article, April, 10 2012
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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What turned an idyllically clean and peaceful city of earlier decades — one that I grew up in and loved — into today’s hell-hole?
Hoodbhoy: Education: The PTI’s False Promises Won’t Help
Znet Article, February, 09 2012
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Pakistan desperately needs education that produces socially responsible, thoughtful, and well-informed individuals
Hoodbhoy: The Bomb: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 24 2012
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Once upon a time Iran was Pakistan’s close ally
Hoodbhoy: Iran’s Bomb and Pakistan
Znet Article, January, 17 2012
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Pakistan’s real dilemma comes not primarily because of America — with which it is now rapidly cutting off ties — but Saudi Arabia
Hoodbhoy: Deepening the Pakistan-India Divide
Znet Article, October, 28 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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As travel barriers become ever higher, their respective populations are becoming progressively more unfamiliar and estranged from the other
Chomsky: Decline of American Power, Part 2
Znet Article, October, 25 2011
Noam Chomsky
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Interview topics include the decline of American power, Arab Spring, rise of China, Islam-West relations, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Chomsky: Decline of American Power
Znet Article, October, 21 2011
Noam Chomsky
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Interview topics include decline of American power, Arab Spring, rise of China, Islam-West relations, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
Hoodbhoy: Nuclear Electricity: A Fallen Dream?
Znet Article, October, 01 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A string of energy-starved developing countries have looked at nuclear power as the magic solution...until Fukushima
Hoodbhoy: What Next: A Sunni Bomb?
Znet Article, August, 09 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The Islamic Republic of Iran stands at the threshold to the bomb
Hoodbhoy: Pakistan after Osama
Znet Article, June, 10 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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For multiple reasons, bin Laden’s killing has become a bone stuck in the throat of Pakistan’s establishment
Hoodbhoy: Anniversary: What if Pakistan Did Not Have the Bomb?
Znet Article, May, 29 2011
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The bomb it has helped bring Pakistan to its current grievously troubled situation and offers no way out
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: Pakistan's problems start at the top
Znet Article, April, 26 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Gen. Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan eight years ago, claiming that the army had to step in to save the country from corrupt and incompetent politicians. Since then, he has run both the army and the government himself, with the connivanc...
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 Universities
Znet Article, January, 27 2008
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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General Pervez Musharraf's regime boasts of its successes in science and education at home and abroad. Recently, I saw Pakistan's successes trumpeted by a large official delegation headed by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, the chairman of the Higher Education...
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: It Is Our War
Znet Article, October, 23 2007
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The war in Pakistan's tribal areas is being fought by Pakistan's army under America's gun and on its orders. Many innocents have tragically died from bombardment from the skies. Therefore, not surprisingly, Pakistanis are angry and most feel it is...
Hoodbhoy: Between Imperialism and Islamism
Znet Article, September, 28 2007
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Between the xenophobes of the West and the illogical fundamentalism in Muslim societies, the...
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: Preventing More Lal Masjids
Znet Article, July, 12 2007
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Preventing More Lal Masjids
