ISLAMABAD—Ordinary, simple Pakistanis don’t spin. They don’t have much of an agenda. They give it to you as it is; raw and straight, no words minced.
Mohammed Abd al-Hameed is an aging and retired Pakistani who served the Pakistani bureaucracy some two or three decades back. Like most everyday Pakistanis, he’s sincere and blunt. Last [...]
ISLAMABAD—It’s easy to act a real liberal and ask Musharraf, Pakistan’s president and its army chief, to leave his army office come December and abandon his reform agenda halfway through. And you can bet your money it’s even easier for him to avoid the headache of Pakistani politics, retire [...]
ISLAMABAD—I called a Chechen friend in Europe on the eve of last week’s school siege in Russia. “Do you really think it will help your cause to blow up schoolchildren?”
“You haven’t seen our children killed by the Russians,” said the Chechen, an IT expert, repeating a beat-up, boring line. I personally heard [...]
ISLAMABAD—I called a Chechen friend in Europe on the eve of last week’s school siege in Russia. “Do you really think it will help your cause to blow up schoolchildren?”
“You haven’t seen our children killed by the Russians,” said the Chechen, an IT expert, repeating a beat-up, boring line. I personally heard [...]
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