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Anjum Niaz Has It Right – Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is
Anjum Niaz is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting. This post was picked up from Pak Markaz and puts it straight for our “leaders” to understand. We whole-heartedly support this plan instead of an IMF bailout. After China’s reluctance to bail us out, what next? The Saudis [...]
World Economic Crisis Pushes Pakistan Close to Collapse – LA Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Take a restive, nuclear-armed nation with an untested new government, an escalating Islamic insurgency, long-standing tensions with its neighbors and an economy in free fall for months. Then add in a global financial crisis. Some analysts and diplomats fear that Pakistan could come to exemplify a perilous new phenomenon: a strategic but [...]
Set Pakistan Free
Pakistan’s main problem is not that it has many Muslim extremists or a weak economy. Rather, it is Pakistan’s dependence on the West and especially the U.S. that prevents it from fulfilling its potential. As a developing country, Pakistan’s main concern should be to modernize. The cause for Pakistan’s lack of progress is the backwards [...]
Eating Grass in Alligator Infested Waters – Samson Simon Sharaf
In the first two parts of the essay, ‘are we ready to eat grass?’ a bird’s eye view of security perspectives arising out of a Pakistani mindset have been discussed. The question that now arises is, ‘do we have the potential to grow the grass we intend to eat?’ In this regard an interesting development [...]
How will next U.S. administration engage Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Guest blogger Roy Kamphausen is the director and vice president for political and security affairs of the Washington Office of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). An issue that came up often in Monday’s NBR-sponsored debate on U.S.-Asian relations in the next administration was the question of instability in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Both campaigns [...]
Pakistan: A Country on Fire – Ayesha Siddiqa
The bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September 2008 has hit Pakistan hard. The reputation of the hotel as a meeting-point and social hub for the capital’s political and diplomatic class ensured that the attack – which killed fifty-three people and wounded 250 – would receive the maximum worldwide publicity that the [...]
Renewable Energy to Tackle Pakistan’s Electricity Crisis
One of my favorite blogs is Haq’s Musings. Riaz Haq has posted an interesting piece on using renewable energy for Pakistan’s electricity crisis. Good reading and info for us all to understand. Sphere: Related Content
Loose Ends and Ankahi
Faisal Qureshi is an anchor on a TV show on Samaa – his show, Ankahi, discusses topics of social awareness and civic responsibility. ‘Loose Ends Pakistan’ was a show he anchored on another channel, similar to Ankahi, but with larger groups of people at a time. This evening, he had Samina Peerzada (respected filmmaker in [...]
A Turning Point in History – Ghayoor Ahmed
PAKISTAN may have been created in accordance with the principles of democracy, but it is regrettable that since it became an independent state in 1947, it has been ruled by either members of the feudal elite or army generals. These regimes have been authoritarian in one way or another. Their disregard for democracy is considered [...]
Mullah, military and the masses – M Ismail Khan
When I read this in the paper the other day, I immediately thought about posting it here on Take Back Pakistan.. so here it is.. As the lawyers’ protest against the removal of the chief justice continues to hyperboles into mass agitation seeking change of government, the debate, has once again moved to the very [...]
How Do I Get Involved
Getting involved with Take Back Pakistan is very easy because of the platforms that we use to get the message out. We believe that the internet gives us the ability to reach, encourage, and influence Pakistanis around the world, while giving the media a better understanding of the real Pakistan. The Pakistan that does not [...]
What Is It About
I have been really fortunate lately to be able to meet and speak about Take Back Pakistan with different groups of people. Since we started this initiative, we have seen it growing slowly, but what has been interesting have been the conversations that we have had with people; so I wanted to take a moment [...]
Re-Imaging Pakistan
As Pakistan celebrates Mohammad Ali Jinnah today, I found this Commencement Address from Pervez Hoodbhoy appropriate for the time. Mr. Hoodbhoy is one of the most respected moderate thinkers in Pakistan. He represents the views of the educated middle-class that aspires for equality. The text below is the Commencement Address that Prof. Hoodbhoy gave at [...]