Archive for March, 2011
Beyond the ‘Crisis State’
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=38780&Cat=9 Beyond the ‘Crisis State’ Tuesday, March 29, 2011 The notion of a new Pakistani nationalism is not new in a chronological sense. It is as old as the country itself. Its newness is in how widely it is dispersed and how explicitly divorced it is from the state-defined and military-dominated version of Pakistan’s economy, [...]
The new Pakistani nationalism
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=37625&Cat=9 Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Shahbaz Bhatti was murdered less than three weeks ago. He was as proud and patriotic a Pakistani as there was, and his commitment to the Constitution, to the rule of law, and to the way Pakistan should be was palpable. I had several chance encounters with Bhatti, and one reasonably [...]
Only way to reform education
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=36070&Cat=9 Monday, March 14, 2011 Have you ever heard anyone make an argument against education in Pakistan? Of course not. Everyone agrees education is absolutely central to the future of Pakistan. This is part of the problem of education in Pakistan. It is so easy to sweepingly endorse the need for education that it becomes [...]
Honouring Bhatti’s memory
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=34866&Cat=9 Tuesday, March 08, 2011 For anyone with even the slightest interest in Pakistan’s future, Shahbaz Bhatti’s assassination should spur some serious problem-solving. The first question any good problem-solver asks is: “What is the most urgent and immediate problem that needs solving?” For some Pakistanis, it is that people aren’t outraged enough by these killings. [...]
Mumbai Mirror: An unmitigated outrage
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2011030320110303025605286f56a960e/An-unmitigated-outrage.html Thursday, March 03, 2011 The daylight assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti will be dissected in great detail. Who killed him? What is this new terrorist group that claimed responsibility? Why was he murdered? What will it take to speak freely and boldly about Pakistan’s dysfunctional criminal code, whose blasphemy provisions are at the heart of [...]
Pakistan’s rent-seeking missiles
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=33734&Cat=9&dt=3/2/2011 Wednesday, March 02, 2011 How can Pakistan become a consistently growing economy? At the white-hot core of the answer to that question burns the midnight oil of the entrepreneur. In a culture that has often celebrated the most dubious of distinctions, it is consistently amazing that Pakistan has little or no time to celebrate [...]
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