Read More WWorld WHAT PERPETUATES LOW INCOME MOBILITY IN PAKISTAN FROM CHILDHOODbyAsif ZaidiAugust 7, 2013 Corruption? Nepotism? Lack of meritocracy? Low GDP growth? Yes, all of these and more. But in the final…
Read More WWorld WHAT AILS PAKISTAN CRICKETbyAsif ZaidiAugust 6, 2013 Almost every day I hear analyses from cricket pundits in Pakistan that the standard of the game in…
Read More WWorld ‘Women in Hiding’, Directed by Taliban, Running Successfully in Dark CornersbyAsif ZaidiJuly 20, 2013 The above production has now hit the marketplace of Karak, a town in KPK, which is ruled by…
Read More WWorld Osama Bin Laden Inquiry Leads to a Scathing ReportbyAsif ZaidiJuly 9, 2013 The leaked accounts of Osama Bin Laden Commissions’ report reveal a scolding that the ISI spooks will not…
Read More WWorld Is Egypt Looking for its Next PharaohbyAsif ZaidiJuly 4, 2013 While I may support liberal ideas and politics and be dead against all forms of theocracy, I have…
Read More WWorld WEST’S APATHY TO JIHADIST OPPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIANSbyAsif ZaidiJune 28, 2013 Yesterday’s killing of Custos of the Holy Land: Fr Franҫois Mourad by Islamist insurgents in al-Ghassaniyah is just…
Read More WWorld A SEQUEL TO ‘WHITE LEGEND OF PAKISTAN’S CREATION’byAsif ZaidiMarch 28, 2013 As evidenced by the comments coming forth, my article “The White Legend of Pakistan’s Creation” seems to have…
Read More WWorld THE WHITE LEGEND OF PAKISTAN’S CREATIONbyAsif ZaidiMarch 25, 2013 PREFACE: So much has been written by much better people about the fallacy and inaccuracy of the history…
Read More WWorld PPP LEADS THE MARCH OF FOLLYbyAsif ZaidiMarch 23, 2013 I am sorry to have borrowed Barbara Tuchman’s axiom in a much lesser context. There has been much…
Read More WWorld Terrorism Undeterred: Pakistan’s SSPTTP FailurebyAsif ZaidiMarch 14, 2013 PREFACE The shadowy terrorist group SSP, even though banned by Musharraf in 2002, remains at the heart of…