Menu
Menu

Archive for ‘March, 2004’

The Cunning Americans

ISLAMABAD— A lucrative business is taking place at the only Iraqi customs post on the border with Kuwait. The locals call it ‘selling Kuwaitis.’ And there is nothing funny about it.
A Kuwaiti man stops at the post en route to Iraq. The moment he’s out of the car, several Iraqi officers at [...]

The Cunning Americans

ISLAMABAD— A lucrative business is taking place at the only Iraqi customs post on the border with Kuwait. The locals call it ‘selling Kuwaitis.’ And there is nothing funny about it.
A Kuwaiti man stops at the post en route to Iraq. The moment he’s out of the car, several Iraqi officers at [...]

The Saudi Touch

ISLAMABAD— Raise your hand if you are tired of reading one more article about Pakistan’s identity options: Central Asia, West Asia, or South Asia?
If so, then guess what our President and his high-powered entourage heard in Saudi Arabia? Pakistan, they were told, is an integral part of the Greater Middle East.
Just when our bureaucracy was [...]

Our Defeatist Brigade

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Thanks to a lousy PR performance by an otherwise strong government in Islamabad, a vocal defeatist minority in Pakistan’s politics and media turned the government’s deft diplomatic handling of issues such as Kashmir and nuclear proliferation into a green light to advocate complete national surrender.
Pakistan’s able leadership shows sleight of hand in dealing [...]

Our Defeatist Brigade

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Thanks to a lousy PR performance by an otherwise strong government in Islamabad, a vocal defeatist minority in Pakistan’s politics and media turned the government’s deft diplomatic handling of issues such as Kashmir and nuclear proliferation into a green light to advocate complete national surrender.
Pakistan’s able leadership shows sleight of hand in dealing [...]