muhammad shahid on "Rising, uprising Pakistan"

muhammad shahid — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:58:23 +0100

I think its rather cynical and grossly exeggrated article ,quite divorced from reality. Pakistan may be facing difficult times but it can surely bounce back .One had to see and believe the way ordinary folks responded during the massive earth quake.The geostrategic position of Pakistan helps it weather the heaviest of political and security challenges.From the days of independence ,Pakistan has come a long way.

Rising, uprising Pakistan, Maruf Khwaja

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

It would be tempting to explain away the latest turn in the continuing Pakistani saga of survival by saying that the cauldron which had been simmering on relatively low heat for a number of years has merely come to the boil. Iraq has so inured us to mass death by bombs and bullets that a mere forty-one dead (at the time of writing) in the course of a violent weekend in Karachi barely turns a head. It is true that unresolved matters cannot long remain so - and that something big has soon got to give. But such simplifications do not do credit to Pakistan, probably the most complex geopolitical entity of our time. As the blood on the streets dries, some of the complexity needs to be untangled.

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