Archive for December, 2006

Pakistan-Afghanistan-Kashmir:apples & oranges?

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Some articles need to  be  read and re-read as a reminder  of what   various  political  and intellectual  circles are  thinking. The article by Pakistani  journalist Hamid  Mir titled“ World is Changing again“  with reference to  various  current  views on Afghanistan is one such article. 

It starts off  in typical Hamid Mir  style with  masla  ( reproducing personal  conversations  ,political point scoring etc) then  rambles   onto  personal attacks on  political leaders and  then ends up with some  recommendations that  in a bizarre  fashion  demand that the “ West should  settle the Kashmir issue  first  and then  tackle Afghanistan”   for this is the demand  of the Talibans  ….. 

How is  Kashmir  and Afghanistan related may I ask ? 

 

Autonomy in a bill?

Friday, December 29th, 2006

JI’s “hour” has still not come

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Ridiculous

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Representatives part of the problem?

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Landmines as solutions?

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Formal complaint to Election Commission of Pakistan

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Lets hear it from Jamaat -i-Islami

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Politics of ideas or dead bodies?

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Regressive mechanisms

Friday, December 22nd, 2006