Archive for January, 2010
Fixing Pakistan’s Election Commission
Fixing Pakistan’s Election Commission http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=220722 http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/2010/01/26/fixing-pakistan’s-election-commission/ Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi One of the most important organizations in Pakistan is the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). It has a very, very difficult job. With limited resources and at the mercy of the military, the political and the bureaucratic elite of Pakistan, the ECP [...]
Bonus Season at the IMF
Bonus season at the IMF http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/2010/01/19/bonus-season-at-the-imf/ http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=219487 Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi On Dec 11, 2009, the twin towers of conventional Pakistani economic genius, Mr Shaukat Tarin and Syed Salim Raza, wrote a love letter to their boss in Washington DC, a certain Mr Dominique Strauss-Kahn, asking for a favour. Both the finance [...]
MQM: Reality v. Fantasy
Friday, January 15, 2010 http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=218738 http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com When bodies start piling up in Karachi, the gut reaction of the Pakistani mainstream outside Karachi is to blame the MQM. This is a twenty-five year old problem. The MQM’s reputation did not emerge from thin air, but its sustenance is the stuff of three decades of political grandstanding [...]
When the news becomes news
http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/2010/01/05/when-the-news-becomes-news/ http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=216860 When the news becomes news by Mosharraf Zaidi If you happen to be carrying around schoolyard fantasies about the nobility of the profession of journalism, you must hold onto those. They are invaluable. Nothing was ever achieved without a little romance and a lot of prayer. But if you are unable to distinguish [...]
Where’s That Counter-Terrorism Strategy?
http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/2010/01/02/where’s-that-counter-terrorism-strategy/ http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=216509 Where’s That Counter-Terrorism Strategy? Saturday, January 02, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi The challenge of indiscriminate bullets and bombs in our markets, our universities, our places of worship and our police stations is not going to be met with verbal diarrhoea. Yet, that’s all we can seem to muster in the face of this [...]
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