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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. [...]
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 [...]
Kicking the habit
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=32466&Cat=9 Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by Mosharraf Zaidi “…thank God that I’m not aware. And thank God that I just don’t care. And I guess I just don’t know. And I guess I just don’t know.” – Heroin by Lou Reed. Fans say Lou Reed and Velvet Underground never endorsed the use of drugs with [...]
Remembering Subrahmanyam in Davis’ Pakistan
(published as Subrahmanyam and Davis) http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=31313&Cat=9 Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Mosharraf Zaidi On February 2nd Indian strategic affairs guru, Krishnaswamy Subrahmanyam passed away at 82. Subrahmanyam (or Subbu) was well known among Pakistani defence thinkers and analysts. His characterization of the East Pakistan crisis, as an “opportunity of a lifetime to cut Pakistan to [...]
Drowning in our delusions
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=30129&Cat=9 Mosharraf Zaidi Wednesday, February 09, 2011 On New Year’s Day this year, I advocated a responsible optimism for 2011. Three days later Salmaan Taseer was murdered by a man that taxpayers sustain to protect them and their representatives. A day later, a man appointed by the legitimately-elected government of the PPP, Mr Rehman Malik, [...]
Reasonable versus unreasonable
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=26292&Cat=9 Tuesday, January 18, 2011 Mosharraf Zaidi Imagine a largely unlettered man that carries a loaded weapon has maxed out his credit cards, lost more than half his assets in a messy divorce, and now dances about the streets celebrating the murder of unarmed people. Then imagine this man stopping for a moment every few [...]
Having the wrong debate
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=25049&Cat=9 Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Mosharraf Zaidi One of the most instructive moments of clarity in the days since the assassination of Salmaan Taseer was provided by Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hasan, as he spoke to the press in Karachi on Sunday. At a rally at which more than 20,000 Pakistanis gathered in defence [...]
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