Hitchens on Pakistan – on the frontier of poor polemics

It’s important to note, since Hitchens, in his to date last article on the issue, uses Rushdies’ Shame and the narrative concept of his Midnight’s Children, to transfer the appaling misconceptions he has so far introduced for the rather impersonal country (with it’s elite as a concept, not so much a Pakistani person) to the Pakistani as a person, or in a wider sense as a society.

bam-e-dunya’s ailing eaves

While the Western media likes to speculate (based on sexy ethnic-great-game-evil-china-theories) what’s really going on in the misty zone between the yellow, the brown and the white, some people actually look at situations with their senses and not just their twitter acounts active.

Aluis Isprangar al-Tiroli – Aloys Sprenger: Beginn einer Suche

Promovierter Mediziner, diente Aloys Sprenger offiziell als Arzt für die East India Company von 1843 bis 1856 am Subkontinent. Dabei war er unter anderem Rektor des Dehli College in Dehli (heute Zakir Hussain College), Rektor der Ahlia Madrassa in Calcutta (heute Aliah University). In Dehli gründete er die Vernacular Tranlation Society, welche möglicherweise die erste Wochenzeitung am Subkontinent in einer Landessprache publizierte. Ausserdem war er Prüfer für Islamisches Recht in Lucknow – 150 Jahre bevor das Wort Sharia in Europa als diffuse, schlecht verstandene Bedrohung herumgeistert.

Jemima Khan on Obama, Afghanistan, the WOT, Pakistan

Jemima Khan: The things you say sound great, Mr President. So why do you end up disappointing us?

Bastardization of Pakistan

Bastardization of Pakistan as it happens on Urbandictionary.com (and not Foreignpolicy.com magazine). Bastardization 2. The reduction of one’s status due to that person’s retarded act. Pakistan Single largest exporter of terrorists. Bastardization of Pakistani state and its people actually happened at the hands of these and these and these. The very people gifted with glorious [...]

mufeed matlab

Bloggers from Pakistan do tend to have a considerbale higher impact on reporting on the country, since they fill a void that is left by foreign journalists who consider the place too unsafe to report.

[Video] Pakistani Nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown. -Fatima Bhutto

Padded bras unIslamic – Fox news special!

How smart you have to be to treat a satirical piece as a geniune story. If you are Fox Nation, intelligence is not required at all. The case in point is this satirical piece at Roznama Jawani that Fox Nation published. Pakistan is a bad bad country! No more pads for you!

Mortenson II – opportunities

Endorsement is fine, projects need such support. But it would help the aid discussion, if some projects would be less viewed through the glasses of aid-from-outside-with-a-backlash-intention but with Ali’s warning in mind (do question moral certainty and superiority!) and from a local standpoint.

Mortenson – remote narratives

For me this is most aptly portrayed by the extensive use of remote in the context of referring to anything virtually in Afghanistan and Pakistan that is just outside Kabul or Islamabad.