Archive for June, 2010
Like A Rolling Stone
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 [...]
Why Matt Waldman must be sued
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=245013 Why Waldman must be sued Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi The buzz being generated by an LSE discussion paper is truly electric. The paper itself is rather unremarkable, alleging long-alleged, long-acknowledged, and long-standing links between Pakistani intelligence and the Kandahari Taliban (those Taliban associated with Mullah Omar and the original extremist political [...]
Why we’ll all be okay
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=243840 or http://www.mosharrafzaidi.com/ Why we’ll all be okay Wednesday, June 09, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi The seriousness of Pakistan’s problems is so severe that it is natural for people to be sick with worry about the future of the country. Pakistani blood is treated cheaply by terrorists, by other countries, but most of all, by [...]
Still no counterterrorism strategy
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 [...]
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