Pervez Hoodbhoy is professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He is the editor of Education And The State - Fifty Years of Pakistan, published by Oxford University Press in 1997.
Mayhem reigned inside the Punjab government after journalist Ansar Abbasi accused it of being “anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam”. In his Jang column of…
Old memories: on September 6, 1965, our class teacher at Karachi Grammar School announced that India had invaded Pakistan and that President Ayub…
Preeminent Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and defence analyst, Pervez Hoodbhoy, talks about the state of science in Pakistan and the growing threat…
First, the bottom line: Pakistan will not break up; there will not be another military coup; the Taliban will not seize the…
Pervez Hoodbhoy, the well-known physicist and peace activist from Pakistan argues that both India and Pakistan have increased their threat from each…
Pakistan’s current and aspiring political leaders can rarely give a public speech these days without invoking ghairat (honour) in some shape or form. Rather than…
Orgies of blood-letting bring Karachi to a grinding halt from time to time. The first three months of the present year have…
Zero attention was paid to recent news which, in many a country, would justifiably have been cause for panic. But in Memogate…
Once upon a time Iran was Pakistan’s close ally — probably its closest one. In 1947, Iran was the first to recognise…
The waters of the Persian Gulf heated up sharply after Iran’s announcement last week that it is creating additional uranium enrichment facilities under…
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