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Many well-known Pakistani political commentators seem bent upon trivializing Lal Masjid. Although the mosque’s bloody siege has now entered into its fifth…
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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.
After his ill-advised dismissal of the chief justice of Pakistan’s supreme court ignited violent protest, President Pervez Musharraf may be banking on…
Recent threats by the Bush administration to cut off billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan have sparked panic in government circles.…
The requirements for survival of the present regime are clear: on the one hand the Army leadership knows that its critical dependence…
Some had feared – while others had hoped – that General Pervez Musharraf’s coup of October 12, 1999, would bring the revolution…
Four days later, they are still not even trying to extricate the dead in the town of Balakot, flattened by an earthquake…
The decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not taken in anger. White men in grey business suits and military uniforms, after…
Few Pakistanis get to visit India, the so-called “enemy country”, and fewer still to independently assess the development of science and education…
There is a severe and long-standing crisis in higher education. But, until the present military government took the initiative, there was no…
The following article, published in June in Dawn (Pakistan), was in response to a strong article by the head of one of…