On the morning of the first Gulf War (1991), having just heard the news of the US attack on Baghdad, I walked…
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.
On 11 May 2003, Amer Ali, a 60-year old peasant of Chak 4-L of Okara district, made his last good-neighbourly visit to…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – India’s Prime Minister has taken a welcome initiative to open a way out of the tragic, bloody and painful…
Street opinion in Pakistan, and probably most Muslim countries, holds that Islam is the sole target of America’s new wars. Even moderate…
These are dismal times for peace. Since the tests of May 1998 and their overt nuclearization, Pakistan-India relations have visibly deteriorated. Crisis…
Al-Qaida had to be bombed, to let the Taliban be was not an option. When fanatics, inspired by Osama bin Laden, flew…
ISLAMABAD-World leaders worked overtime last week to prevent tensions between Pakistan and India from exploding into war. But in India and Pakistan,…
A nuclear war is said to have no winners, but Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee seems to think otherwise. His exhortations…
> Buried under the rubble of the World Trade Centre lies a decade-worth of Pakistani foreign policy. Faced by a furious United…
Buried under the rubble of the World Trade Centre lies a decade-worth of Pakistani foreign policy. Faced by a furious United States,…