Things categorized as 'Ahmed Quraishi'
August 13th by Ahmed Quraishi.
Pakistan's relationship with the US remains rocky despite the recent reported assassination of Baitullah Mehsud. He was an anti-Pakistan terrorist and not an anti-US terrorist. He was a new sore ...
July 29th by Ahmed Quraishi.
A college chemistry professor is murdered in cold blood at his house’s doorstep in Quetta, the latest in a long list of educationists cowardly assassinated by terrorists claiming to stand ...
July 23rd by Ahmed Quraishi.
Three things have never happened before. Afghanistan has conceded over the weekend that anti-Pakistan terrorists and separatists have safe havens on its soil. India accepted last week it was feeding ...
July 7th by Ahmed Quraishi.
If Pakistan were Turkey, Pakistani military commanders would have been publicly warning by now to send fighter jets into Afghanistan to pound the secret supply routes that are being used ...
July 1st by Ahmed Quraishi.
Two things made America more influential and awe inspiring than any other nation on the face of the earth: cowboy movies and Michael Jackson. Long before the American Tomahawks, B-52s ...
June 24th by Ahmed Quraishi.
Pakistan will probably never catch terrorist leader Baitullah Mehsud alive. Why? For the same reason that we will never really know why alcoholic beverages were found from some of their ...
June 10th by Ahmed Quraishi.
The extent of foreign interference in Pakistan has turned our country into Swiss cheese. The ostensible meeting that a US diplomat organized at her private residence between an Indian diplomat ...
May 26th by Ahmed Quraishi.
Pakistan’s biggest revenue-generating business hub city of Karachi was paralyzed by ethnic violence for the third time in less than six months. Our American allies continue to create worldwide confusion ...
May 19th by Ahmed Quraishi.
The worst part of the continuing instability in Pakistan since 2007 is that it is fast pushing this nation's best and brightest to lose hope. The doomsday reporting on Pakistan ...
April 9th by Ahmed Quraishi.
The CIA faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into Pakistan ...
March 19th by Ahmed Quraishi.
This is the first time that Pakistan's military joined middle-class Pakistanis in forcing change on the country's closed club of elite politicians. This may not have been intentional. The recent ...
March 4th by Ahmed Quraishi.
An independent judiciary is a noble cause. But as the latest political mess shows, Pakistan's existential crisis lies in the failure of its elitist politicians and in a flawed political ...
December 24th by Ahmed Quraishi.
Pakistan will have to learn from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other US-friendly nations how they pushed back American interference. This is important for us to be able to also ...
November 26th by Ahmed Quraishi.
If the federal Pakistani government had smarter politicians and media managers in office, they would have shown interest in Charity and Veronica Bowers. Almost eight years ago, the CIA asked ...
October 22nd by Ahmed Quraishi.
Where would you put your money: on an America burdened by a $10 trillion debt or a China flush with almost $2 trillion cash reserves, the largest in the world?
You ...
October 14th by Ahmed Quraishi.
Two bearded, traditionally dressed Afghan men stopped the conversation, excused the CIA director, rolled out their rugs, and prayed loudly in one corner of the spy chief's ultra-secured office in ...
October 2nd by Ahmed Quraishi.
A little noticed but major flaw in the Pakistan-US partnership in the war on terror is leading Pakistani policymakers and public opinion to make a serious error in judgment that ...
September 25th by Ahmed Quraishi.
He is young, bold, and methodical, often delivering his arguments in bullet-form even in an informal chat. According to one account, he went from earning $400 a month working for ...
September 16th by Ahmed Quraishi.
In a recent email exchange, one of the ideological founders of the country's largest left-oriented parties said that he believed that the "core strategic objective of the US" was to ...
September 11th by Ahmed Quraishi.
The election of President Zardari might be the lowest point for Pakistan's crumbling political system, low because it would have been difficult on moral grounds to elect someone with his ...
September 4th by Ahmed Quraishi.
You can say a lot about Pakistani politics from the simple fact that a newcomer like Asif Ali Zardari successfully took hardened politicians and journalists for a ride for eight ...
August 26th by Ahmed Quraishi.
This is the first time that Pakistan does not have an ambassador in Beijing for several months now, which is an oddity. Washington and London were the first capitals where ...
August 23rd by Ahmed Quraishi.
The events of the past six years leave no doubt that Pakistan's real problem is not democracy or dictatorship. It is a failed political system that discourages the emergence of ...
July 29th by Ahmed Quraishi.
It's not democracy's fault. So something has to be wrong with Pakistani politicians. Consider the magnificent blunder of removing an army chief midair and ordering the pilot to land in ...
