Defending Dictatorship: Another View on Pakistan

Posted on March 27, 2008
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Syed Abbas Raza A military dictatorship is a military dictatorship, and a democracy is a democracy. And the latter is always automatically better than the former. It is safer to agree with this statement and to look at every particular complex political situation through the lens of this cliché than to risk having one’s liberal-democratic […]

Pakistan Elections 2008: Poetic Politics

Posted on March 26, 2008
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Adil Najam Our repost of our ATP Mushaira post on Anwar Masood prompted reader Shahran Asim to send us this newer audio recording of Anwar Masood commenting on elections in Pakistan. I thought it was not only hilarious but also pertinent; and certainly worth sharing. Thanks, Shahran. [audio:http://pakistaniat.com/images/Anwar_Masood_ Elections.mp3]

ATP Mushaira: Anwar Masood

Posted on March 26, 2008
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Adil Najam I want to introduce this new (hopefully regular) feature at ATP. (Actually, if you press the ‘ATP Mushaira‘ category you will find that this is the second installment in this category; the first being our little Faiz Mela on Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s birthday.) Of course, poetry has been a regular and favorite subject […]

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