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[30 Nov 2009 | Comments Off | Rahimullah Yusufzai]
The Long Haul

Despite making territorial gains in South Waziristan, the army will find it challenging to hold the territory.

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[22 Nov 2009 | Comments Off | Talib Qizilbash]
Uncle Sam Wants Us

A look back at Hillary Clinton’s visit shows how desperate the US is to win the hearts and minds of Pakistanis, but to what end?

Blog Row, News & Politics, Zahid Hussain »

[18 Nov 2009 | 6 Comments | Zahid Hussain]
General Sympathy: Aiding the Taliban

Several former army soldiers are either fighting in Afghanistan or training Taliban forces and formulating strategies to counter the war on terror.

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[16 Nov 2009 | 8 Comments | Nadir Hassan]
Supreme Irony

A combination of judicial populism and restraint has made the Supreme Court slightly controversial.

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[15 Nov 2009 | 3 Comments | Shaiq Hussain]
The Unlikely Target

Despite supporting the jihad against the Soviet Union, the International Islamic University in Islamabad was not spared by the militants.

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[26 Oct 2009 | 11 Comments | Mohammed Hanif]
The Sheikhs of Araby

Why does Pakistan defer to Saudi Arabia when it is hypocritically puritanical and corrupt?

Blog Row, The Water Cooler »

[11 Sep 2009 | Comments Off | Nadir Hassan]

Defining 9/11 simply by the number of people it killed is both reductive and misleading. For the day to serve as a useful analogy, writers must be more specific when they invoke it. Apart from the tragic deaths, 9/11 also caused, however short-lived, a unity of purpose among Americans.

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[3 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | Nadir Hassan]
Pakistan in 2008: Divided We Stand

In early 2008 it seemed that a uniting government bringing the two major political parties together would last. The disintegration of this grand coalition was a mirror of the differences that threatened to split the country. Civil-military relations worsened and the growing militancy poses the greatest threat to the survival of the country. And yet, through it all, Pakistan still stands, divided, but not torn apart.

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[5 Dec 2008 | Comments Off | Khaled Ahmed]
The Media Divide

Has a certain section of the Pakistani media emboldened radical and militant organisations, by manner of its incessant discussion rather than abated the war on terror?

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[2 Dec 2008 | Comments Off | Siddharth Varadarajan]
A Common Enemy

Taking action against the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Mumbai is in Pakistan’s interest too.