PAKISTAN

What does Pakistan have to do with Haiti?

Port-au-Prince, September 2 – Haiti is, as a friend of mine put it years ago, a place for big questions. I’ve been trying to understand it... 

Seattle TV interview on Pakistan floods

This morning at 7:30 I went to the studios of KIRO 7 TV in downtown Seattle to be interviewed by satellite by BBC World about the floods in Pakistan. The... 

Pakistan Floods: Why Should We Care?

SEATTLE, AUGUST 13 – Yesterday a non-Pakistani friend here emailed me: “I wanted to ask you which you think would be the best organization to make... 

Ahmed Rashid on the ISI’s failure to control the Taliban

I heard Ahmed Rashid speak a year or so ago at the wonderful venue Town Hall Seattle. Although I had previously met him several times and read his authoritative... 

Why are Muslims annoyed with the West?

I’ve just gotten around to reading this good “Letter from Karachi” by freelance journalist Madiha Tahir published in Foreign Affairs... 

Gulzar Ahmed: Peace starts with me

Better late than never, I want to share this op-ed written by my friend Gulzar Ahmed, who lives in Oregon: “Peace starts with me,” OregonLive.com,... 

Sentient beings in Pakistan

From filmmaker Mahera Omer in Karachi, who features prominently in Chapter 5 of my book Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip: “All creatures... 

Ahmadiyyas and the Lahore mosque attacks, by Tahmena Bokhari

Click here to read the full comment from a friend of mine in Toronto, currently serving as Mrs. Pakistan World: “As a social worker I have worked... 

Pakistani-American leadership by example

I recommend a great little LA Times write-up of Pervaiz Lodhie, CEO of Torrance, California-based LEDTronics and one of the founders of the Pakistan American... 

Some of My Best Friends Are Pakistanis

by Ethan Casey SAN DIEGO, May 4 – As I write this, the news that the man arrested for trying to blow up Times Square is a U.S. citizen of Pakistani...