More of the same by Arif Nizami
24 July, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010 Arif Nizami Pakistan has been at the epicentre of hectic diplomatic activity in the past few weeks. However, as they say, no matter how much things change they remain the same. Parleys between Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and his Indian counterpart, S M Krishna, failed to break any fresh ground. [...]
Correcting a false start by Praful Bidwai
24 July, 2010The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi Saturday, July 24, 2010 Praful Bidwai Both India and Pakistan damaged their international image during their foreign ministers’ meeting last week–the first ministerial since the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks–by demonstrating mutual antipathy and refusing to begin a productive [...]
The gathering rage of the virtue brigades by Ayaz Amir
23 July, 2010Islamabad diary Friday, July 23, 2010 Ayaz Amir Brigades is just a metaphor. What we have now is a veritable army of the enraged middle classes inveighing day in and day out against the evil of the times in which they live and hoping somehow for a miracle to stop what in their minds is [...]
The Afghan conundrum by Shafqat Mahmood
23 July, 2010Reality check Friday, July 23, 2010 Shafqat Mahmood They came to Kabul from seventy countries last week. Some of them are doing the fighting and the dying in the dusty valleys of Afghanistan. Others are playing their part by throwing money on the problem. And then there were those, like Pakistan, who cannot wish their [...]
The shame of fake degrees by S Khalid Husain
22 July, 2010Thursday, July 22, 2010 S Khalid Husain If there were half as many coal pits in Thar as the pits into which Pakistan has been led by its present rulers, the country would lick the power crisis. While there is probably not a single coal pit in Thar, the number of pits into which the [...]
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