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GHQ and dangerous binaries
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=52458&Cat=9 Tuesday, June 14, 2011 One of the cardinal rules of public life is that every opportunity to communicate is golden, none should ever be wasted. In the age of information overload, with dozens of news channels, Facebook, Twitter and blogs galore, this principle is even more important. “Every time you say something, make it [...]
A state with no social contract
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=51244&Cat=9&dt=6/7/2011 A state with no social contract Tuesday, June 07, 2011 We will never find out who killed Saleem Shahzad. From Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal to Mohammed Salahuddin of the right-wing magazine Takbeer – journalists in Pakistan have died before. There has been no real change in the vulnerability of intrepid reporters [...]
Fixing responsibility for PNS Mehran
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=48828&Cat=9 Wednesday, May 25, 2011 A frank discussion about the inept, corrupt and callous political leadership in this country has its place. It just doesn’t have any place in this country right now. The PNS Mehran attack, along with the attack in Charsadda, and the two-pronged living nightmare of Osama Bin Laden residing in Pakistan, [...]
The commission: defining the terms
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=47457&Cat=9 Tuesday, May 17, 2011 The idea of an independent “Pakistan Commission on National Security” has been proposed by countless other Pakistanis, and endorsed by a broad range of the political spectrum. The need for such a commission has become even more urgent, given the events of the past week. The most important of these [...]
Time for an OBL Commission
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=46126&Cat=9 Tuesday, May 10, 2011 The Osama bin Laden killing last week has exposed Pakistan’s severe vulnerabilities to the three most clear and present dangers that face the country. The first vulnerability is to Pakistan’s own inadequacies and incompetence as a state. The second vulnerability is to the cunning and evil of terrorists (and the [...]
Hating on Imran Khan
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=43681&Cat=9 Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Imran Khan is not a great politician. Since April 1996, when he launched the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), he has consistently proven his political incompetence with the legendary perseverance that makes the Great Khan who he is. Luckily, Imran Khan is pretty good at many other things. Even before winning the [...]
SC easy but incorrect target of anger
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=5463&Cat=13&dt=4/22/2011 Friday, April 22, 2011 The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Lahore High Court 2005 acquittals of five (of a total of six) of Mukhtaran Mai’s alleged rapists has been met with agony and despair by many Pakistanis. She has become a symbol of courage, hope and resolve for Pakistani women, not only for [...]
What about the DMG?
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=42570&Cat=9 What about the DMG? Wednesday, April 20, 2011 “Yeah, the several federal men, who pulled schemes on the dream, and put it to an end. You better beware…” – from the song Wake Up, written by Zack de la Rocha, 1992. In the haze of the 18th Amendment’s implementation, and the hullabaloo over the [...]
Devolution fundamentalists vs HEC chamchaas
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=41108&Cat=9 Devolution fundamentalists vs HEC chamchaas Tuesday, April 12, 2011 The debate about the status of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in a post-18th Amendment scenario is being presented in interesting ways. One version of the debate is that this fight pits those who favour a centralised Pakistani state, against a band of do-good federalist [...]
Suicide bombers vs. the suicidal state
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=39979&Cat=9 Tuesday, April 05, 2011 The reason it is fruitless to allow ideology to be the primary filter through which you see the world is simple. Ideology is complicated. It obfuscates the obvious, and invests us in the hidden. It is the foundation of conspiracy theories. We seek hidden meaning in things that have obvious [...]
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