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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
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: Why Musharraf Stays
Znet Article, March, 23 2007
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Recent threats by the Bush administration to cut off billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan have sparked panic in government circles. Likewise, according to the Pakistani ambassador in Washington, military strikes by the United States aimed at Al ...
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...
Hoodbhoy: Reforming Our Universities
Znet Article, January, 11 2005
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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There is a severe and long-standing crisis in higher education. But, until the present military government took the init...
Hoodbhoy: Pluralism in Pakistan
Znet Article, September, 30 2004
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The following article, published in June in Dawn (Pakistan), was in response to a strong article by the head of one of the most powerful and intolerant religious-political parties, published a few days earlier in Dawn. In summer 2001, while vi...
Hoodbhoy: Miracles, Wars, and Politics
Znet Article, September, 16 2004
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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On the morning of the first Gulf War (1991), having just heard the news of the US attack on Baghdad, I walked into my office in the physics department in a state of numbness and depression. Mass death and devastation would surely follow. I was d...
Hoodbhoy: Is Kashmir Ready For Peace?
Znet Article, May, 23 2003
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - India's Prime Minister has taken a welcome initiative to open a way out of the tragic, bloody and painful morass that passes for relations between India and Pakistan. It is an overdue recognition of the fact that Kashmir does...
Hoodbhoy: The India Pakistan Conflict
Znet Article, November, 24 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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These are dismal times for peace. Since the tests of May 1998 and their overt nuclearization, Pakistan-India relations have visibly deteriorated. Crisis has followed crisis and nuclear weapons have played an inc...
Hoodbhoy: What, Us Worry?
Znet Article, June, 10 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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ISLAMABAD-World leaders worked overtime last week to prevent tensions between Pakistan and India from exploding into war. But in India and Pakistan, where a million troops from the two countries glowered at each other across the border, sabres con...
Hoodbhoy: Lighting the Nuclear Fire
Znet Article, May, 27 2002
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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A nuclear war is said to have no winners, but Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee seems to think otherwise. His exhortations to Indian troops in Kashmir to prepare for sacrifices and "decisive victory" have set off widespread alarm. It seem...
Hoodbhoy: The Wages of Obedience
Znet Article, February, 11 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, Pakistan's establishment abandoned what had earlier been declared as vital national security interests. First, Pak...
