Archive for May, 2010
It’s about ‘al-Qaeda’s core in Pakistan’
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=29201 http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/ It’s about ‘al-Qaeda’s core in Pakistan’ Monday, May 31, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi At a large event at the Brookings Institution on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled President Barack Obama’s National Security Strategy (NSS). Though Obama’s first NSS, the US law requires presidents to undertake strategic reviews on national security. Revised [...]
Mumbai Mirror: This isn’t about religion
http://bit.ly/adZsGF | by Mosharraf Zaidi in the Mumbai Mirror, Saturday, May 29, 2010 More than seven hours after a ghastly attack on two Ahmedi mosques in Lahore, rescue workers were still struggling to find and recover dead bodies. Pulling bodies out of the rubble should be second nature for paramedics, policemen and other first-respondents in [...]
The National: Pakistan is not the answer
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 [...]
The Nation: Pakistan’s Challenge
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 [...]
The Consensus About Drones – Part II
The Consensus About Drones – Part II – by Mosharraf Zaidi Wednesday, May 12, 2010 News analysis http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=238727 There is, of course, considerable variance in the estimates. Since President Obama announced his plans to “surge” in Afghanistan, a steady stream of analysis and op-eds have sought to understand the impact of drone attacks. The seminal [...]
The Consensus About Drones – Part I
The Consensus About Drones – Part I – by Mosharraf Zaidi Tuesday, May 11, 2010 News analysis http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28773 Children in Waziristan call them “Ghangai” (emitter of constant humming). Like Scottish folk hero William Wallace — who purportedly shot bolts of thunder from his nether-regions —the legend of the drones grows. Faisal Shahzad’s failed attack on [...]
The Consensus About Drones – Part I
The Consensus About Drones – Part I – by Mosharraf Zaidi Tuesday, May 11, 2010 News analysis http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28773 Children in Waziristan call them “Ghangai” (emitter of constant humming). Like Scottish folk hero William Wallace — who purportedly shot bolts of thunder from his nether-regions —the legend of the drones grows. Faisal Shahzad’s failed attack on [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Pakistan Is Fighting Terror
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704370704575228111537983690.html OPINION | MAY 7, 2010 Once again a terrorist attack, albeit a failed one, has brought Pakistan under the microscope. Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American arrested in connection with the Times Square bomb plot, is less American than he is Pakistani so the focus on Pakistan is not unwarranted. But caricaturing my country as the [...]
Mumbai Mirror: Qasab’s Guilty. So What Now?
http://bit.ly/9QV6DN by Mosharraf Zaidi in the Mumbai Mirror, Tuesday, May 04, 2010 What do most Pakistanis say when we are harangued by the handful of Indian friends that we have, about our country’s refusal to hand over Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) supremo Hafiz Saeed? We say: “You guys haven’t even been able to convict this allegedly Pakistani [...]
Opaque and Unaccountable Counter-Terrorism
http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/2010/05/04/opaque-and-unaccountable-counter-terror/ http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=237355 Opaque and Unaccountable Counter-Terror Tuesday, May 04, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi The murder of Pakistan’s international man of mystery, Khalid Khawaja, should awaken Pakistanis on all points in the political, religious and social spectrum to the depth and complexity of the terrorists’ challenge to Pakistan. Khawaja was, what many investment bankers would call, [...]
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