Articles with tag: Nuclear
Warday
Ali Rizvi Feb 2, 2008 interacts: 12A continuation of the Graphic novel WARDAY, but from the perspective of ex-patriot Pakistani population stranded after a 36 hour nuclear holocaust.
Pakistan After The Assassination: Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy
Chowk Jan 6, 2008 interacts: 145Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy by Stefania Maurizi of Venerdi of La Repubblica
Whither Pakistan? The Presidential 'Election' and Beyond
Asif Naqshbandi Oct 10, 2007 interacts: 81It is my view that in the not too distant future Pakistan too will go through its own version of an Islamic revolution.
Blinkered Vision: Unravelling the Nuclear Debate
Anand Patwardhan Oct 11, 2007 interacts: 34Why is the 'US India Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement' called 123? The answer lies in the US Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Article 123 of the act governs US 'Cooperation with other countries'.
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.
War Clouds Over Iran
S F Hasnat Apr 8, 2007 interacts: 9If not stopped by the Congress, under one pretext or the other, the Bush administration is geared to go beyond just imposing UNSC sanctions against Iran.
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.
Truth Behind US-India Nuclear Deal
Shanay Khuda Dec 13, 2006 interacts: 95US-India deal has all the signs of great treaty. However it also contains some ominas signs of India getting trapped in a CIA net.
Stagnating Pakistan-Iran Relations
S F Hasnat Dec 1, 2006 interacts: 187When it comes to Pakistan-Iran relations there is much more than what actually is being said by the establishment or its proxies.
This High-Octane Rocket-Rattling Against Tehran is Unlikely to Succeed
Tariq Ali Jul 23, 2006 interacts: 5Tariq Ali wrote on May 3 ... The Bush administration appears to be psyching itself up for a safe strike against Iran either by itself or via the Israelis, whose new leaders have referred to the Iranian president as a psychopath and a new Hitler. Why has W
A Stretch of Analogy: National Deterrence to Individual Deterrence
Asad A Shah May 30, 2006 interacts: 33The government has already accepted its inability in protecting the citizenry by giving licenses to open ‘security agencies.’ But this is also a safeguard specifically aimed at the elite
Iran, Geopolitics and the Bomb
Asif Naqshbandi Jan 22, 2006 interacts: 202When Iran does not have a bomb and Israel has 200 of them why not threaten Israel with sanctions?
The Trial of a Nation
Urstruly Dec 1, 2005 interacts: 189In their opinion, Dr. Khan couldn’t possibly, understand the technology during the sixteen days he spent at Almelo and even then he could only go in or out of the factory at prescribed hours.
Bye Bye NAM, Hello Realpolitik!
Dost Mittar Oct 26, 2005 interacts: 371India’s change of policy towards Iran must have been one of the most deliberate, albeit agonizing, decision by the Indian government.
Other Side of Rabbi Shergill
Joe Athialy Oct 3, 2005 interacts: 12Punjabi pop singer Rabbi Shergill - the Bullah ke Jaane fame - talks about peace, politics, his dreams, spirituality and his next album.
The Time of the Bomb
Zia Mian and A H Nayyar Aug 7, 2005 interacts: 15If South Asia is to survive its own nuclear age, we shall need to have strong peace movements in both Pakistan and India. A beginning has been made.
Bin Laden And Hiroshima
Pervez Hoodbhoy Aug 6, 2005 interacts: 137Even as the United States dusted off its hands and moved on, elsewhere the radioactive rubble of the dead cities spawned not only a sense of dread, but also an obsessive desire for nuclear weapons.
Pakistan’s Choice
Godot Jul 28, 2005 interacts: 621In light of rising Indian power blessed by the West, what policy options does Pakistan have?
Doomed If They Do, Doomed If They Dont
Udayakumar Jul 26, 2005 interacts: 66Since the issue at hand is so complicated and steeped in strategic considerations and nucular, sorry, nuclear jargons, let us try to understand the situation with the help of an allegory, “The Largest Singh Meets the Longest Sam, A True Sad Story.&#
NPT Is As Good As Dead
Mohammad Gill May 5, 2005 interacts: 16The member nuclear states need to set example by retrenching their nuclear arsenals and abandoning their plans for developing further nuclear weapons before they can seriously hope to rein-in the other member states aspiring to go nuclear.
Iran’s Nuclear Triangle
Syed J Hussain Feb 28, 2005 interacts: 8Encircling Iran by maintaining its military presence in five of the seven countries sharing borders with Iran, the US seems to be working overtime to neutralize Iran’s ‘nuclear triangle’
Engaging India
Amrita Rajan Dec 21, 2004 interacts: 25If Nawaz Sharif is portrayed as...a mugger “who was holding a pistol to his head and threatening to blow his brains out if you didn’t hand over your wallet”, LK Advani is an ominous figure dwelling fondly on a South Asia under Indian heg
The Hazardous Mix: A Peculiar Act and the Perilous Energy
Udayakumar Dec 3, 2004 interacts: 2India's Atomic Energy Act 1962 - its intent and the reality
Anushakthi Amma
Udayakumar Sep 21, 2004 interacts: 18It is year 2015. The Kalankulam Nuclear Power and Bomb Project (KNPBP) has been functioning since 2007. The farming villages, fishing villages, and the dalit villages around Kalankulam had been vacated and the people were removed to a modern hamlet call
Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: A détente?
Savail Hussain Aug 8, 2004 interacts: 8In the context of Pakistan and India the peace and prosperity of over two thirds of the world’s population is at stake. Can we credibly rely on deterrence?
The Nuclear Father
Mansoor Ahmed Apr 27, 2004 interacts: 39Under Munir’s dedicated leadership, Pakistan’s nuclear programme developed into a multi-faceted and dynamic center of science and technology, both on the peaceful and deterrence sides.
Pakistan: Inside The Nuclear Closet
Pervez Hoodbhoy Mar 7, 2004 interacts: 90Many in the Pakistani press had warned that any attempt to punish Qadeer, advertised for near two decades as the architect of Pakistan’s and the Islamic world’s nuclear bomb, would provoke rampaging mobs to demand an end to Musharraf’s p
Did Libya Stab Pakistan in the Back?
Karamatullah K Ghori Feb 21, 2004 interacts: 98It wasn’t so much what Qaddafi had, or didn’t have, in his arsenal. But what was of importance to the Anglo-Americans was that they had managed to break the most vocal and loud-mouthed of the hostile Arab leaders.
The Constipated Faujiz
Rozaiba Feb 9, 2004 interacts: 330One by one, each of the three most strategic assets have been jeopardized under the rule of the Pakistan Armed Forces lead by General Parvez Musharaf.
Is Dr. Qadeer Guilty as Accused?
Karamatullah K Ghori Feb 4, 2004 interacts: 214Allegorically speaking, Musharraf has dealt as symbolic a blow to Qadeer’s aura and stature as the American ‘conquerors’ of Iraq did last year to Saddam Hussain’s by dismantling his bronze statue in Baghdad’s Firdousi Square.
The Nuclear Noose Around Pakistan’s Neck
Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 2, 2004 interacts: 349Thirty years ago, fearful of India’s newly acquired nuclear weapons, Pakistan set out on its own quest to become a nuclear weapons state...Few could have imagined then that the move from buyer to seller of the world’s deadliest technology w
General Musharraf – Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Shahid Mahmood Oct 2, 2003 interacts: 51Musharraf falls and a General with fundamentalist leanings pushes ‘the’ button. India reacts. Karachi, Lahore, Delhi, and Bombay have a combined population of one million people.
Iranian Nuclear Program nettles the US
Waheed Abbas Sep 30, 2003 interacts: 17If the US failed despite exhausting all the diplomatic options to halt Iranian programme, would the Americans resort to exhibit its military supremacy against a much weaker country? Or will it encourage a mutiny in Iran? Or will the US attack Iranian nucl
We Cut When Asked -- PTCL’s New Censoring Role
Q Isa Daudpota Jun 12, 2003 interacts: 21Our telephone company, the monopoly holder for conveying Internet traffic, has lately been working overtime as the morality policeman.
History Rehearsing: Dark Ages of Islam
Ameer Afraid Jun 10, 2003 interacts: 85poor masses hopelessly in search of a savior
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
Pakistan and India - Lets Compromise
Q Isa Daudpota May 7, 2003 interacts: 198The program began by applauding Indian PM Vajpayee’s concession to meet Jamali, his Pakistani counter-part
Survival of the Fittest
Urstruly Apr 23, 2003 interacts: 366If Pakistan is next then what are the options?
An Answer to the Pro War Surrealists
Syed Ali Apr 9, 2003 interacts: 111If you feel that your way of life is better than us, than live it, but stop trying to impose it upon us.
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).
Rightsizing of the Armed Forces
Riffat Jahan Feb 6, 2003 interacts: 101the huge Pak Army fulfils few strategic functions
USA and Muslims
Sameer Jan 9, 2003 interacts: 213Muslim extremists generally dislike non-Muslims and they hate various people at local level
Khaki wisdom -- One-way ticket to Hell
Abrar Akbar Jan 3, 2003 interacts: 66the world came closer to a nuclear exchange during the recent standoff between India and Pakistan than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis
Creation of Hindu ’madrasas’
Rasheed Talib Dec 26, 2002 interacts: 125Is this the sort of education we Indians want in our school system?
The Unmaking Of Gujrat
Farzana Versey Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 263The key players in these elections and therefore Indian polity seem like characters in a drama of the absurd.
Kissinger of Death
Rehan Ansari Dec 6, 2002 interacts: 102Bush may as well have chosen Osama bin Laden to head the commission
An All-Inclusive Rejoinder to All the Chronic Complainers
Riffat Jahan Nov 20, 2002 interacts: 115there are few nations on the face of earth blessed with such an omnipotent uniformed force
Unraveling Pakistan: Taming The Shrew-Mare
Temporal Oct 9, 2002 interacts: 46Pakistan’s Army has become a wild mare. It has to be broken into. It has to be re-taught to walk, run, trot
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?
Piece of What?
Shandana Minhas Aug 21, 2002 interacts: 149I left home for a gathering of peaceniks and ended up at the social event of the year. The card in my hand said ‘Arundhati Roy: keynote speaker: seminar on peace and freedom in south Asia’
Peace in South Asia
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 18, 2002 interacts: 366Arundhati Roy gave the Pakistanis a glimpse of what free-thinking is
India’s Potential Lose-Lose-Lose Scenario
Umair Raja Aug 11, 2002 interacts: 281India may actually be helping Pakistan in the long run, not harming it, with its current war hysteria
The Quarterbreds of Californet
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur Jun 23, 2002 interacts: 8What choice is left in the face of such enmity?
A Contrary Opinion
Adnan Gilani May 12, 2002 interacts: 24why not give the goodwill to someone who has only been brutally honest with us
The King’s Gambit: Chapter 3 (The Prostitute)
Umair Raja and Omer Rafique Feb 18, 2002 interacts: 13“Do you play chess, Mr. Prime Minister?”
An Insight Into the Way Shiv Sena Functions
Harish Nambiar Feb 6, 2002 interacts: 90This political sex appeal of Thackerey is the reason that Shiv Sena shakhaas have sprung up in Haryana and Punjab
Empty Vessels And All That Jazz
Zeemax Feb 2, 2002 interacts: 204do you think he is up to task to rid us of feudals next?
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
Indian Diplomacy : Time To Recheck
Amit Mathur Jan 4, 2002 interacts: 25The year saw a marked upswing in new Delhi’s relations with the US, Russia, Japan, Germany and France
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
Muslims and The West After 11th September
Pervez Hoodbhoy Dec 7, 2001 interacts: 569America has exacted blood revenge for the Twin Towers
Caught In Between
Aisha Sarwari Sep 15, 2001 interacts: 603Pakistan is on the defensive almost constantly
Black Tuesday: The View From Islamabad
Pervez Hoodbhoy Sep 15, 2001 interacts: 570CNN and the US media have so far made little attempt to understand this affliction
The Indo-Pak Summit, Kashmir and the Taj Mahal
Ras Siddiqui Jul 8, 2001 interacts: 142One cannot expect a solution from just one summit on the complex Kashmir problem ...
The Quest for Power
Mushahid Hussain Jun 26, 2001 interacts: 143It took General Zia 14 months after the July 1977 coup to assume the Presidency, while General Musharraf waited 20 months to do the same
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.
The Chicken Hawks Of Pakistan
Feroz R Khan May 7, 2001 interacts: 422The military should accept the fact that it is a dictatorship
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?
Hands Across The Border
Sharmila Bakshi Feb 17, 2001 interacts: 336we all must plant our saplings of peace today
The Soft Option
Farzana Versey Dec 3, 2000 interacts: 592How can we say that Pakistan is misrepresenting the term ’jehad’ with regard to Kashmir when we Indians are doing the same?
A Different Story
Feroz R Khan Oct 27, 2000 interacts: 291The winds of change are slowly whispering their way across the South Asian sub-continent
The Imperatives of Power
Haider Nizamani Oct 4, 2000 interacts: 182A physically injured leader has won hands down against the leader of a psychologically injured nation in the world of diplomacy
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
The People’s Initiative
Beena Sarwar Jun 27, 2000 interacts: 19Exposure to ordinary people serves as a powerful perception changer ...
Negotiating Peace in Kashmir
Ahmad Faruqui Jun 18, 2000 interacts: 70President Clinton should also exhort the Indian leaders
What’s the future of India and Pakistan?
Roopam Dhawan Jun 5, 2000 interacts: 270there are only two solutions to this problem[Kashmir]. A Change of attitude or war
A Rumor Of Lies
Feroz R Khan May 29, 2000 interacts: 38Pakistan, as a nation, seems to have entered a political terra incognita from which it is unlikely to return
TIEcon 2000 Generates Hope
Ras Siddiqui May 18, 2000 interacts: 14Entrepreneurship in the 21st. Century
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 ...
Can Clinton Stand in Front of the Taj?
Amitava Kumar May 8, 2000 interacts: 21Vices or not, Clinton certainly got to go as far as India
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
Why Clinton should visit Pakistan
Muhammad N Ahmed Mar 16, 2000 interacts: 291The Americans simply cannot sideline Pakistan...
Talibanization or the Turkish Model?
Omar Mirza Mar 2, 2000 interacts: 199My son is a U.S Citizen, and he is going to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.
Let us Not be Foolish
Ras Siddiqui Feb 19, 2000 interacts: 188Mistakes, misunderstandings and downright hate have led us too long in India-Pakistan relations...
In the Supreme National Interest
Iftikhar Rahman Feb 11, 2000 interacts: 245the days of loot and plunder are over
The Millenium Manifesto or ’Ikeesween Sadi Dastoor’
Zeemax Jan 8, 2000 interacts: 332Kashmir does not belong to Pakistan regardless of historical events during partition...
Twosome Troubles of Troublesome Two
Udayakumar Jan 8, 2000 interacts: 122The adolescent behavior of both the Indian and Pakistani elites and their awry management of bilateral relations has become a matter of international notoriety
Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats?
Shaheen Sehbai Jan 5, 2000 interacts: 27A scathing look at journalism in Pakistan
Men of the Millenium
Pervez Hoodbhoy Dec 28, 1999 interacts: 89Five personalities who shaped the last 1000 years
Resolving the Hijack Crisis
Udayakumar Dec 26, 1999 interacts: 155The timing of the IC-814 hijack crisis portends several things
Pakistan: Rapprochement with India ‘unstoppable’
Beena Sarwar Oct 19, 1999 interacts: 212One thing is clear: people want peace with India
Text of Speech by Gen. Pervez Musharraf
Press Room Oct 17, 1999 interacts: 129The choice before us on Oct 12th was between saving the body - that is the nation, at the cost of a limb - which is the Constitution, or saving the limb and losing the whole body
Compilation of Articles on the Military Takeover in Pakistan
Chowk Staff Oct 16, 1999 interacts: 14Views and reviews on the recent events in Pakistan
Pakistan Alert: Revolution in the Making?
Saqlain Imam Oct 16, 1999 interacts: 23Perhaps, this will be the beginning of the World War III
Why An Interim Civilian Government will Fail
Pervez Hoodbhoy Oct 14, 1999 interacts: 38Putting up a front government will achieve simply nothing
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
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
Connected to: Harsh Kapoor
Nausheen Saleem Sep 2, 1999 interacts: 4SPIDER talks to Cyber Warrior Harsh Kapoor about his stance on the recent blocking of the Dawn Internet Edition in India
Save India
Veer Kumar Jul 27, 1999 interacts: 52A martial law administration has to take over the country
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
Kargil Issue
Amandeep Midha Jul 4, 1999 interacts: 27I begin the issue right from 1947 when India and Pakistan were planned to be two separate countries
Falsehoods Galore
Fauziya Khan Jul 4, 1999 interacts: 108Pakistan has thus turned into an oligarchy well versed in the art of making things disappear
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
A Visit to Pakistan
Vinod Vyasulu Jun 24, 1999 interacts: 22Could it be that there is a feeling that India does not accept the existence of Pakistan?
Pokhran-Chaghi audit: Winners and losers
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jun 4, 1999 interacts: 15India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests one year ago.
Obituary: Munir Ahmad Khan
Ehsan Masood May 23, 1999 interacts: 4Pakistan’s historians are unlikely to be kind to Munir Ahmad Khan, the former chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, who died in Vienna in April 1999
Nuclear powers can count too!
Mohammad A Syed May 13, 1999 interacts: 9Can we implement a new census at the dawn of the new millenium?
The Man who would be King
Ibne Sina May 13, 1999 interacts: 25A look inside the mind of Nawaz Sharif.
Bombs, Missiles and Pakistani Science
Pervez Hoodbhoy May 4, 1999 interacts: 46The Chaghi tests, and more recent Ghauri-II and Shaheen-I missile launches, have been deemed heroic symbols of high scientific achievement... Are they?
Make ’Nobody’ Indian Prime Minister
Udayakumar Apr 23, 1999 interacts: 6Keep away from politics and electricity, cautions an Ethiopian proverb
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
Getting Ready for ‘Bus Diplomacy’
Beena Sarwar Feb 19, 1999 interacts: 35Vajpayee and Sharif get creative. First bombs then bus rides.
A Line Runs Through It
Feroz R Khan Jan 1, 1999 interacts: 68Siachen-Kargil: India, Pakistan, Kashmir and forgotton lessons of history
The Environmental Impact of a Nuclear Explosion
Saleem Ali Dec 22, 1998 interacts: 6What happens after a nuclear detonation?
Is Accidental Nuclear War Impossible?
Pervez Hoodbhoy Dec 8, 1998 interacts: 8...the truth is that accidents, sabotage, and tragedy have frequently haunted our two countries.
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.
Is Impeachment Realistic
Ras Siddiqui Dec 7, 1998 interacts: 9Scandal and sex are easier to start than explain. Just ask the President.
The Gentleman Must Go
Feroz R Khan Nov 3, 1998 interacts: 36Crisis in the shadows of power: Is Pakistan entering an institutional crisis acknowledging Nawaz Sharif’s imperial designs?
Monks on a Pilgrimage
Yousuf Saeed Nov 2, 1998 interacts: 2a peace march to Pakistan across the India-Pakistan border
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 ...
Towards a Nuclear Weapons Free World
Johan Galtung and Dietrich Fischer Oct 4, 1998 interacts: 9One World War II every second for a slow afternoon.
India
Amitava Kumar Sep 18, 1998 interacts: 11India I still haven’t told you what you did to Manto when he did not
leave for Pakistan in ’47.
From Zharkent to Laguna Pueblo
Beena Sarwar Sep 18, 1998 interacts: 2We are still suffering from the radiation effects of tests done by China and Russia
Repercussions of Nuclearization
Saba Khattak Sep 6, 1998 interacts: 4The question of women and public space in the nuclear debate hardly exists in the popular imagination
Reconfiguration of the South Asian Polities
Udayakumar Aug 31, 1998 interacts: 35Mr. Sharif wants to transform himself into Amir-ul-Momineen....a title used by the Taliban chief.
Humpty-Dumpty rescrambled
Surya Kareenahalli Aug 25, 1998 interacts: 5What would two eggs (for Pete’s sake) be doing on a wall?
Sanctions - the carrot follows the stick.
Chowk P Room Jul 16, 1998A crack in the door - sanctions may be lifted soon.
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 Strike Warning or Green Card Application?
Chowk Staff Jul 2, 1998 interacts: 2A Pakistani Nuclear Scientist defects to the US with dire warnings
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.
Damming Kalabagh
Aly Ercelawn and Muhammad Nauman Jun 23, 1998 interacts: 8Is the state acting wisely in its insistence upon building Kalabagh Dam?
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
Articles and Opinions on the Recent Nuclear Tests - Part II
Chowk Contributors Jun 13, 1998The events surrounding the nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan have evoked a strong reaction and a number of articles have been received at Chowk.
Nuclear Viagra and Nationalist Virility
Sohail Rabbani Jun 11, 1998 interacts: 13What does it matter...in the long run we are dead anyway.
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
Pakistan in State of Emergency
Chowk Staff May 28, 1998President Tarar promulgates state of emergency in the country
Nuclear Tests in Pakistan
Chowk Staff May 28, 1998 interacts: 11We have settled the score, Nawaz Sharif.
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.
Crying Buddha
Ras Siddiqui May 23, 1998 interacts: 2Three tears fell to wet the Indian desert on
This grim and horrifying day in May as ...
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
Patriot Games
Shiv Visvanathan May 18, 1998 interacts: 13Pass out the barfis. It could be a hockey match. A Tendulkar century. A riot or a nuclear blast.
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.
Pre-Eid Fireworks in Pakistan
Chowk P Room Apr 7, 1998 interacts: 7On Monday April 06, Pakistan successfully tested a surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear payload over a range of 1100 km.
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.
Entrepreneurship Under the Microscope: The MIT Stanford Venture Lab
Adnan Lawai Aug 8, 1997 interacts: 2Learn of a place where VCs, start-up gurus, and hot-shot technocrats set young CEOs on the couch and analyze their entrepreneurial dreams for them....for free.
Islamic Economic Model: La Riba (Interest-free) Banking
SA H Ahsani Aug 1, 1997 interacts: 6No wonder, the Islamic system is gaining popularity. In Pakistan, mutual funds and industrial joint ventures on Mudaraba basis have been established...
