Take Arundhati Roy. For one who has championed people's causes everywhere so wonderfully well, her shallow, patronizing remarks were disappointing...
Manmohan Singh has accepted Zardari's invitation to visit Islamabad. But what should the two sides talk about? Here are those on which progress is both necessary and, more importantly, possible.
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 17 April 2012
Osama’s killing is now a bone stuck in the throat of Pakistan’s establishment that can neither be swallowed nor spat out.
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 3 May 2011
Why are prominent scientists spreading paranoia in Pakistan that the USA may be triggering earthquakes globally, and could also have caused the catastrophic floods in Pakistan?
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 15 November 2010
If India had its Ganesh idols drinking milk way back in 1995, Pakistan recently witnessed the sudden appearance of Prophet Mohammed´s alleged footprint
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 25 May 2010
When you hold a burning match to a gasoline tank, the laws of chemistry demand combustion. Fed on anti-Americanism, a collective psychosis grips the Pakistani youth...
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 6 May 2010
Dark clouds are gathering over Pakistan's universities, portending a conflict that is likely to be long, bitter, and uncertain in outcome.
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 4 February 2010
The reason for India to want rapprochement with Pakistan, and vice versa, has nothing to do with feelings of friendship or goodwill. It has only to do with survival. For us in Pakistan, this is even more critical
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 29 November 2009
Revolutionary, humanist, and scientist, Faheem Hussain embodied the political and social ferment of the late 1960s. Even decades later, he described himself as an "unreconstructed Marxist".
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 1 October 2009
Why blow the whistle 11 years later? Think President Obama's initiative to revive the CTBT. By rubbishing the Pokhran II tests as a failure, India's nuclear hawks hope to make the case for more nuclear tests
BY Pervez Hoodbhoy 3 September 2009
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