Foreign Policy Tuesday, May 3, 2011 ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan — Three hours after U.S. President Barack Obama announced Osama bin Laden’s death from the East Room of the White House, I found myself sitting in the Jadoon Shopping Plaza in Abbottabad, Pakistan — the resort town where the killing had happened eight hours earlier — talking [...]
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/04/reading_woodward_in_karachi?page=full Reading Woodward in Karachi Is this the nail in the coffin of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship? BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | OCTOBER 4, 2010 Bob Woodward’s books have an uncanny ability to create palpable nervousness in Washington. They almost always expose some government officials in a poor light. But though many figures in his latest, Obama’s [...]
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/10/the_talibanization_of_america The Talibanization of America Viewed from Pakistan, the rise of U.S. Islamophobia looks depressingly familiar. BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 One of the lessons from the Quran-burning circus in Florida, whether it ever actually takes place or not, is that the labels we use to make sense of the world are becoming [...]
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/19/why_doesnt_the_world_care_about_pakistanis?page=full Why Doesn’t the World Care About Pakistanis? BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | AUGUST 19, 2010 The United Nations has characterized the destruction caused by the floods in Pakistan as greater than the damage from the 2004 Asian tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake combined. Yet nearly three weeks since the floods [...]