pakistan - Himal Southasian (Page 30)

OUR ENDANGERED SPECIES

Noam Chomsky says humans are an "endangered species" and given the nature of their institutions, they are likely to destroy themselves in a fairly short time. When Chomsky

By Aqil Shah

/ 1 Jan 2002

American infidelity or Pakistani duplicity?

Pakistanis, living at home or abroad, have become masters at monologues, despising or ignoring the value of dialogue among ourselves and with others. We have convinced ourselves that we are

By Manzur Ejaz

/ 1 Dec 2001

The South Asian Bomb

As the US mobilised its armed forces in the after math of the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the world's attention focused on Pakistan, so crucial to military

By M. V. Ramana and Zia Mian

/ 1 Dec 2001

SHAKE HANDS

The last SAARC summit was cancelled at India's behest because Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did not want to shake hands with General Pervez Musharraf, who had just

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2001

The general’s labyrinth

Pakistan has moved from being an international 'basket case' to 'frontline state' in just a month. The change has been stunningly quick. For two years, Musharraf

By Adnan Rehmat

/ 1 Nov 2001

Why not to fear a nuclear war?

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the cold war between the US and the USSR was such that if the former launched a nuke-mounted missile, Soviet satellites were capable

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 2001

Fallout of an Afghan Strike

The US response to the carnage perpetrated on 11 September, could be a catalyst for an unwinnable, long drawn war without frontiers. A 'shoot first ask questions later'

By Mushahid Hussain

/ 1 Oct 2001

‘Imagined Communities’ in a Shaky Subcontinent

India & Pakistan: Inventing the Nation by Ian Talbot Arnold Publishers, London, 2000

By Sreeram Sundar Chaulia

/ 1 Sep 2001

General Musharraf’s Roadmap: A Khaki Constitution?

The much-awaited 'roadmap' regarding a timeframe for general elections announced by General Pervez Musharraf, tucked away almost as an aside in his long speech of 14 August,

By Mushahid Hussain Sayed

/ 1 Sep 2001

SOUTH ASIA AND THE SUMMITEERS

When the Indian prime minister and the Pakistani generalissimo met to talk in Agra, the leaders, spin-managers and commentators on both sides forgot one critical point: that both countries

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 2001

ROADMAP TO THE SOUTH ASIAN CENTURY

There a conflict in South Asia, which has outlasted most post-World War II disputes. This long-festering dispute is the one in Kashmir, and it is the primary cause

By Eqbal Ahmad

/ 1 Jun 2001

A conversation with Asma Jehangir

Meet Asma Jehangir, lawyer, human rights advocate and activist in the women's movement in Pakistan. Her first tilt at officialdom was at 18 when she filed a writ

By Ritu Menon

/ 1 May 2001