Posted by Christopher Allbritton on July 6, 2009 at 11:08 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Current.com has an interesting (if a bit old) video short on the youth culture of Karachi, Pakistan. It’s definitely worth a look. As an aside, I’ve found similar stirrings of a vibrant youth culture here in Islamabad, which I will be writing more on in the future.
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 13, 2009 at 6:48 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
There can be no question the Pakistani state is coming under increasing strain from militants, its political system and its international relations. The question is, Where is its breaking point and what can be done to prevent it? And if it comes, then what? Militant pressures A largely takfiri and Pashtun insurgency has been spreading out of […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 11, 2009 at 8:26 am +0000 · 2 Comments
At the risk of making this a site about Ahmed Rashid, he spoke to the Knight fellowship today and he had more interesting things to discuss. Some was a repeat of what he mentioned to me at dinner a couple of nights back, as would be expected, but he got more deeply into the dilemma of Pakistan. The […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 7, 2009 at 3:09 am +0000 · 1 Comment
So how’s that Swat Valley cease-fire going, anyway? Not so well… “How can I tell you my name, are you crazy? I was told not to give my name to anyone because the Taliban could hurt me,” one girl in the ninth grade told AFP by telephone from the former ski resort. This meshes with what I was told […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 5, 2009 at 4:39 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
In mid February, Pakistani columnist Nazeer Naji penned a column reporting that Taliban militants are gradually expanding their influence over the entire country, and not even Islamabad is safe. The trigger for his alarm was the signing of a shari’a-for-peace deal between Maulana Fazlullah, one of the Taliban commanders, and the Pakistani government to establish Islamic law over […]
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Zardari Surrenders in the Swat Valley
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law a peace deal with militants in the Swat Valley that would enshrine Islamic law in the former Alpine tourist resort just 100 miles from Islamabad. The above video shows what can be expected under the Pakistani Taliban’s rule. Zardari is weak. He was being pressured by the U.S. and […]
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