Archive for July, 2010

A Quickie-Leak on Obama’s War

http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=253154 A Quickie-Leak on Obama’s War Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Mosharraf Zaidi Let’s establish the facts about the Wikileaks expose of 75,000 US military documents detailing Obama’s war in Afghanistan. First, the total number of documents released is 75,000. Another roughly 15,000 have been held back by the Wikileaks people “as part of a harm [...]

Times of India: Know thy neighbour: good, bad, and ugly

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 [...]

Cutting Hillary Clinton some slack

http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=251833 Cutting Hillary Clinton some slack Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Mosharraf Zaidi “Perceptions will change… once they see how their lives have changed” – Shah Mehmood Qureshi Poor Americans. This is the fellow that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to stand beside as she tries to squeeze more juice out of a Kerry-Lugar Bill [...]

Obsessed with Osama

http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=30184 Obsessed with Osama by Mosharraf Zaidi Tuesday, July 20, 2010 “I believe they (Bin Laden and Mullah Omar) are here in Pakistan and it would be really helpful if we could get them.” And with that, in what is now becoming an amusing routine, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday, once again, expressed [...]

Owning up to our fake degrees

Owning up to our fake degrees http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=251278 Saturday, July 17, 2010 by Mosharraf Zaidi When the nation was aflame with moral outrage last year in November, it was because our collective anger about corruption in Pakistan had seemingly boiled over. The NRO was leading the headlines, and the PPP’s lashkar-e-haq, led by the venerable religious [...]

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