Mosharraf Zaidi wrote a column for The News until December 2011. This website archives his articles and essays.
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PTI and the thaana
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=76155&Cat=9 Far too many have characterised the PTI rally at Minar-e-Pakistan as Imran Khan’s moment. But a more accurate description would be to classify the event in Lahore as PTI’s moment. Some of the most deserved criticism of his political efforts have been about the quality and depth of his team, and the actual layers [...]
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Saturday 24 July, 2010 http://bit.ly/9WY4S6 or http://bit.ly/cc6c4O Know thy neighbour: good, bad, and ugly The July 15 Islamabad Summit was a failure only for the supremely ambitious South Asian, says Mosharraf Zaidi The anger that produced Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s press conference lambasting the Indian delegation led by SM Krishna, as Krishna was boarding a plane for [...]
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=29626 Like a rolling stone Thursday, June 24, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi “Now you don’t talk so loud. Now you don’t seem so proud…How does it feel?” – Bob Dylan, 1965 In a terse address at the White House yesterday, US President Barack Obama announced the resignation of his Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The [...]
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=242541 or http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/ Still no counterterrorism strategy Wednesday, June 02, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi One of my closest friends has never once, in more than fifteen years, ever responded to my salaam with a salaam. I have never held it against him. If he did, and a budding Mullah Chinioti heard him say it, he [...]
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100521/REVIEW/705209992/1194/FOREIGN Pakistan is not the reason for Faisal Shahzad by Mosharraf Zaidi May 21. 2010 | This article appeared in The AD Review of The National With each new piece of information revealed to the press in the ongoing investigation of Faisal Shahzad, the failed Times Square bomber, more and more scrutiny has turned to [...]
http://www.thenation.com/article/pakistans-challenge Pakistan’s Challenge by Mosharraf Zaidi May 13, 2010 | This article appeared in the May 31, 2010 edition of The Nation. Among the many lessons the United States may have gleaned from the story of failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, the one that may be hardest to absorb, is that America’s Pakistan problem [...]
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