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Articles Written by: FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI
Every day we see some new concern in the western media, our media or some apex western meeting. Richard Holbrooke’s recent congressional hearing was quite pithy in this context. One comment from BBC’s anchor is still frozen in my memory, that some ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
23 May 2009
For days nay weeks I have been thinking to write something on this. However my preoccupation with my television job has kept me from it. However not any more. Tonight when I logged on to the CNN site I saw CNN IBN’s breaking news pointer on Mumbai ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
26 Nov 2008
While it has stayed on top charts for quite sometime I failed to see the Dark Knight for a while. It was beyond my comprehension why a movie about Batman’s fight with the villain Joker could become so popular. There must be some hidden political ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
2 Nov 2008
While the world particularly the American political class is debating Pakistan’s responsibility in the war on terror, nobody seems too much concerned with what 160 million Pakistanis must be expecting from them. There is no doubt that after eight ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
17 Oct 2008
Musharraf has always shown great concern for the economy of the country. Indeed economic progress was self professedly the most important objective of his military coup. He then seemed to have great dislike for his predecessors for they had been ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
17 Aug 2008
Recently yet another senior al Qaeda leader spoke up on television and took responsibility for all crimes done. Yet if you take special pains to read any Western work on al Qaeda or Osama you will essentially notice a clear attempt at mystification. An ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
24 Jul 2008
Traveling in a tube, a train or an airplane how many times has it happened that some fellow traveler shocks you with his or her rash outburst or sudden movement? Does your pulse race? Do you feel nauseated by the possibility of a terror attack? You ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
19 Jul 2008
When Sheila Jackson, the woman co-chairing the Pakistan caucus in the US Congress applauds the PPP’s functioning and complains about the PML-N it is something of a giveaway. Imagine what policy of the party is being applauded when there is broad ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
9 May 2008
I believe now that Musharraf has failed in the basic foreign policy test set forth by the Western democracies in recognizing Israel as a state, he is bound to try and charm China. Indeed in his first assassination of Ms Bhutto when the western press ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
15 Apr 2008
We were taught in the theories of international relations that democracies do not go to war. That notion however somehow seems lost in the erratic behaviour of the US administration regarding Pakistan. During the eight year long dictatorship in this ...
From FARRUKH KHAN PITAFI,
Blogger News,
2 Apr 2008
