Articles with tag: weapons
Who Sold the Centrifuges?
saeed qureshi Jul 5, 2008 interacts: 66Dr. Qadeer’s inflammatory outburst against President Pervez Musharraf would, instead of personally absolving him, aid in painting Pakistan in more lurid colors by her detractors.
Pakistan's Nuclear Test - Ten Years Later
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 28, 2008 interacts: 508Today we are at war on multiple fronts. But the Bomb provides no defense. Rather, it has helped bring us to this grievously troubled situation and offers no way out.
Cluster Bombs
Fiza Asar May 26, 2008 interacts: 9United States, Russia and China have not signed the Mine Ban treaty and will not sign the Cluster Ban either, but their future actions affected by the outcome of this Treaty.
Towards God?
Mahesh Prabhu Sep 23, 2007 interacts: 11I don't know as to whether the world is moving towards God. But these two leaders (Ahmadinejad and Bush) are certain to push to world to brink of disaster.
Impressions about Iran
Muhammad Tariq Mar 26, 2007 interacts: 67The world has gone wrong somewhere in understanding them or stereotyping them with other Islamic fundamentalists like the Talibans.
This Really Gets My Goat
Shandana Minhas Jan 22, 2007 interacts: 169As the outcry against the Pakistani governments plan to mine the Durand Line grows, I am reminded of the title of a Ray Bradbury novel published in 1985, Death Is A Lonely Business. Death is a lonely business. Step on an anti-personnel landmine, and it
Kill for a Pill
Fazeel Chauhan May 6, 2006 interacts: 11And then call this patriotism like Hitler
Then call it “christianity”
And murder, “sanctioned by jesus
And god bless America”
The Beginning of the End of the Kashmir Problem
Dost Mittar May 13, 2003 interacts: 206Do not underestimate either the love or the hatred that the peoples of the two countries are capable of having towards each other
Saddam Hussein Lives!
Haroon Moghul May 2, 2003 interacts: 140The Future of America’s Occupation is Failure
Survival of the Fittest
Urstruly Apr 23, 2003 interacts: 366If Pakistan is next then what are the options?
The War and its Advocate: Michael Kelly Killed in Iraq
Abul K Islam Apr 6, 2003 interacts: 27The War kills its own uncompromising advocate.
War and Terror
Sajjad Mahmood Mar 25, 2003 interacts: 22Is use of precise weapons of mass destruction justified to destroy imprecise ones?
Three Arguments Against a War
Umair Raja Mar 11, 2003 interacts: 32As America prepares for war, I want to present three arguments for peace:
IS Waging Another War on Iraq Justified?
tahir hamid Mar 5, 2003 interacts: 29More than 500,000 toddlers and infants have died due to the consequences of the sanctions (UNICEF, 1999).
US Attack on Iraq: Just Do It!
Maz Feb 12, 2003 interacts: 89The US war on Iraq will end a tyrant regime, bring Iraq out of Isolation and set into motion a wave of globalization which could bring hope to hundreds of millions of people
Damn Saddam?
Farzana Versey Feb 4, 2003 interacts: 177The last time round the Italian MP, Ilona Sthaler, had offered to sleep with him, appealing to the macho man and sadist in Saddam
Standing Up to a Bully
Omar R Quraishi Jan 9, 2003 interacts: 71America has all along, despite Iraq’s acceptance, said it is highly sceptical of Saddam Hussain’s assurances or promises
A Work In Progress
Feroz R Khan Jan 6, 2003 interacts: 95Jinnah put Pakistan in such a location that the future state would always be involved in the geo-politics of world
Mexico to Support United States
Muhammad Yousuf Nov 12, 2002 interacts: 12Fox and Bush, 'langotia yar ... '
What I Saw In Okara
Pervez Hoodbhoy Sep 15, 2002 interacts: 68An investigation into the Okara land dispute
Were We Too Hijacked by 9/11?
Pervez Hoodbhoy Sep 9, 2002 interacts: 126Al-Qaida had to be bombed, to let the Taliban be was not an option.
Road Blocks in Normalising Relations
Bundchungal Sep 8, 2002 interacts: 55If cross border terrorism ceases, facilitating a dialogue between India and Pakistan, will a dividend of long term peace follow?
Peace in South Asia
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 18, 2002 interacts: 366Arundhati Roy gave the Pakistanis a glimpse of what free-thinking is
The Panel of Vendettas at UC Berkley
Aisha Sarwari Mar 4, 2002 interacts: 194A true hero would make a radical notion and never back track
The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond
Revathy Gopal Jan 26, 2002 interacts: 555Osama bin Laden has his own vision of a perfect world and millions will die
India, Pakistan and America’s Mixed Signals
Ras Siddiqui Dec 30, 2001 interacts: 106War is the last thing that we need there
Running Naked
Anwar Iqbal Dec 25, 2001 interacts: 359Looking at the current India, Pakistan conflict as Manto would have
The Passion of The Pacifist
Farzana Versey Dec 20, 2001 interacts: 56An interview with Asgharali Engineer
Bahr-e-Zulmaat
Rehan Ansari Sep 19, 2001 interacts: 158a mother who wears the hijab suggested to her 28-year-old daughter she take it off
Group Captain Cecil Chaudhry, SJ
AH Amin Jul 8, 2001 interacts: 323An interview with a war hero ...
The Winds of Change
Irfan Husain May 21, 2001 interacts: 396When the world’s only superpower changes direction, smaller states, especially those located on the periphery of potential conflict, have to be nimble in adjusting their policies.
Our Blind Nuclear Prophets
Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 3, 2001 interacts: 230why did Indian and Pakistani defence budgets go up, rather than down, after the May 1998 tests?
The Killing Fields of Karachi
Mueen Batlay Jan 1, 2001 interacts: 233What was Shakir’s crime? Was it that he came back to Pakistan to work...
1971 in 2000
Salman Akhtar Aug 20, 2000 interacts: 248... this singular event is consigned to the dustbin of history.
No More Hiroshimas Anywhere, Ever
Beena Sarwar Aug 5, 2000 interacts: 74Fat Boy and Thin Man, created atomic hell on August 6 and August 9, 1945
Us and Them - A Pakistani professor counters Urdu newspapers
A H Nayyar May 16, 2000 interacts: 60A student stood up and berated me for negating the Ideology of Pakistan
Eqbal Ahmad: Post - Pokhran Days
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 12, 2000 interacts: 81The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by nature ...
Pssst...This is Rest of South Asia speaking
Harish Nambiar May 1, 2000 interacts: 253for every Indian dollar-billionaire, there are at least a hundred million paupers
Different Eagles, Same Genus
Feroz R Khan Apr 12, 2000 interacts: 232For the Indian war planners, the Pakistan Air Force is their worst fear...
Men of the Millenium
Pervez Hoodbhoy Dec 28, 1999 interacts: 89Five personalities who shaped the last 1000 years
Pakistan: Rapprochement with India ‘unstoppable’
Beena Sarwar Oct 19, 1999 interacts: 212One thing is clear: people want peace with India
Compilation of Opinions on the Military Takeover in Pakistan
Chowk Staff Oct 18, 1999 interacts: 94Peoples opinions and reactions
Masala Democracy
Neil Aggarwal Oct 14, 1999 interacts: 21Only in South Asia would a masala mix of militancy, neglect of the masses, and elite politics pass for democracy
Why An Interim Civilian Government will Fail
Pervez Hoodbhoy Oct 14, 1999 interacts: 38Putting up a front government will achieve simply nothing
A Recipe For Unbridled Pak-India Competition
Pervez Hoodbhoy Oct 11, 1999 interacts: 6Independent thinking on foreign and defence policies has virtually ceased to exist
Falsehoods Galore
Fauziya Khan Jul 4, 1999 interacts: 108Pakistan has thus turned into an oligarchy well versed in the art of making things disappear
A Road To Siachen
Feroz R Khan Jul 4, 1999 interacts: 81An analysis of the Pakistani military thought and its interests in the present crisis
India’s Failure of Imagination
Rohan Oberoi Jul 2, 1999 interacts: 62No one in India, it seems, has a clue what people across the border in Pakistan are thinking
Another Hope Killed
Anita Zaidi Apr 27, 1999 interacts: 16My 15 year-old brother, Farrukh Ali, was kidnapped near our house
Nawaz Sharif Plays Lady Macbeth
AA Apr 20, 1999 interacts: 16Pakistan government is an accomplice in domestic violence and the death of Samia Sarwar.
WW III? An Analysis of Yugoslavia
Taimur Rahman Apr 7, 1999 interacts: 42The media has been lying to the world about the crisis in Kosova
Why Vajpayee’s Trip to Lahore Was a Failure
Rohan Oberoi Feb 22, 1999 interacts: 31Vajpayee’s bus trip can be described in one word: nothing
Killing Iraqis Before Ramadan Starts
Umair A Khan Dec 16, 1998 interacts: 73US bombs Iraq following Clinton’s go-ahead wednesday morning
India is South Asia’s Natural Hegemon
Sadanand Dhume Dec 7, 1998 interacts: 47Pakistan is more an army with a state than a state with an army.
Talking of Talks
Udayakumar Oct 22, 1998 interacts: 9...the Prime Ministers have had a telephone talk
Shadows of Hiroshima
Asim R Tahir Oct 21, 1998 interacts: 6An airplane as pretty as a silver treasure slowly flying from east to west in the cloudless, pure blue sky ...
Waiting for you, Mahatma
Udayakumar Oct 2, 1998 interacts: 5Proud I am of Gandhiji’s birth - But feeling ashamed of not being its worth!
Giving Way to Intolerance
Mehdi Hasan Sep 14, 1998 interacts: 12During the last many years, religious intolerance and sectarian fanaticism have created a war-like situation in Pakistan
Nuclear Bomb for Sale
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Shiv Visvanathan Jul 6, 1998 interacts: 11the demand for nuclear bombs outstripped that of mangoes, movies, health services, designer labels, paan, clean water,
Nuclear South Asia: An Explanation to America
Ras Siddiqui Jun 25, 1998 interacts: 11The US and the rest of the world needs to help in the resolution of this issue because if we don’t address it now we will all hear about it later.
Letter from Nagasaki
Marino Kitano Jun 18, 1998 interacts: 5I am the grand daughter of a survivor of Nagasaki, and I bear the scars of that living hell
Onwards to the Nuclear Abyss
Feroz R Khan Jun 18, 1998 interacts: 6India, Pakistan and the March of Folly
Living with the Bomb
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jun 3, 1998 interacts: 3A 2-5 minute flight time, almost zero chances of interception, and the impossibility of recall
Getting to Yes
Salman Akhtar Jun 1, 1998 interacts: 1Not to test was to permanently accept Indian domination.
The Hard Choice
Abdul Nayyar May 30, 1998 interacts: 1A Pakistani physicist’s view on the eve of the Pakistani N-tests
Compilation of Articles and Opinions on India’s Nuclear Test
Chowk Contributors May 24, 1998 interacts: 1The events surrounding the nuclear tests conducted by India have resulted in a number of articles and opinions. This is a compilation of those articles.
Statesmanship Needed
Dilawar Syed May 21, 1998 interacts: 6Mr. Bhutto’’s decision to go nuclear would prove pivotal quarter of a century later
Say No to Indian and Pakistani Bombs
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 18, 1998 interacts: 10...against the ideologies of hate created and promoted by our governments
Petition against the Nuclearization of South Asia
Abha Sur May 15, 1998 interacts: 7Petition circulated at a seminar at MIT on the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan.
A Letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
Farrukh Azfar and Wasiq Bokhari May 14, 1998 interacts: 12A letter urging restraint on part of Pakistan in response to the recent rash behavior of the Government of India.
India tests three nuclear devices
Chowk P Room May 11, 1998 interacts: 30Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced that India had conducted three underground nuclear tests on Monday.
Brown Man’s Burden
Amar D Dhindsa May 2, 1998 interacts: 14I remember my English teacher sneering at students for not understanding what they were teaching, attributing our faults to lack of breeding
UN Sanctions Against Iraq: 10 Myths
Elias Davidson and Nadeem Khan Feb 12, 1998 interacts: 4Economic sanctions against industrialized countries, which include a ban on foreign trade, can be more lethal than limited military attacks.
Madeleine’s ’Deadly Delusions’
Nadeem Akram Feb 7, 1998 interacts: 6Well over 6 million Indian and Pakistani citizens live in the Middle East and Washington’s apparent indifference towards their safety has roundly ticked off nations who generally need little reason to feel offended.
Never Again
Hisham Zoubeir Jan 27, 1998 interacts: 1and again, Milosevic ignored NATO’s warnings that the world would not tolerate another Bosnia.
