Archive: Pakistan

A collection of 23 posts

Theology: Jurisprudence

The Veil & Islam

From the archive (2012): a future Chief Justice tests a compulsory-veil resolution against text and law — institutional rigour where slogans were offered.

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Feminism is the Feeling of Being Safe - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

From the archive (2012): Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar — a case study in what a society gains when it owns the means of telling its own stories.

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Pakistan Turns the Corner without War or Revolution

From the archive (2011): Pakistan changing course through elections and courts — a data point for the thesis that working institutions are the whole story.

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Jamaat Islami's Welcome Statement

From the archive (2011): judging a religious-political party by fiscal substance, not slogans — a habit worth generalising.

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Rapidly Changing Al-Qaeda Endgame in Pakistan

From the archive (2011): on the killing of Saleem Shahzad — what reporting cost in Pakistan, and why journalism survives only where institutions protect it.

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Pakistan Tug-of-War: For-sale Liberals vs Myopic Fanatics

From the archive (2011): Pakistan between for-sale liberals and myopic fanatics — both read as symptoms of missing institutions.

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Reality Check about Christians in Pakistan

From the archive (2011): a reality check on Christians in Pakistan — against caricature in both directions, the harder kind of honesty.

Theology: Jurisprudence

Murderer or Hero?

From the archive (2011): Pakistan divided over a celebrated killing — a fracture only trusted courts, schools, and scholarship can repair.

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Pakistan, welcome to Hyderabad

From the archive (2008): ‘Pakistan, welcome to Hyderabad’ — ordinary goodwill at a cricket ground, and the institutions needed to make it outlast a news cycle.

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Kashmir Earthquake Reconstruction

From the archive (2005): after the Kashmir earthquake — the move from grief to the institutional question of how reconstruction is organised and sustained.

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Has Musharraf outlived his welcome?

From the archive (2005): weighing Musharraf’s reforms against his legitimacy — a case study in why gains held by one office are lost with it.

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Three Goals for Pakistan

From the archive (2005): three goals for Pakistan under Musharraf — sound goals, and a case study in why only institutions, not individuals, deliver them.

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Record 'Sukuk" - Islamic Bond offering - by Pakistan

From the QeRN archive (2005): Pakistan's record sukuk showed Global South states could tap Islamic finance at scale — an early case study in building independent financial institutions.

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Foreign investment rises in Pakistan - Daily Times PK

From the archive (2005): an FDI snapshot from Pakistan — raising the permanent question of when investment builds capability and when it builds dependence.

Self-Reliance: Economics

Report on on Pakistan's Economy

4.2pc reduction in poverty, claims Economic Survey Per capita income $652; GDP growth 6.4pc; defence spending Rs 180bn; base year changed from 1980-81 to 1999-2000 By Nadeem Malik ISLAMABAD: The Economic Survey 2003-04, declaring all is well, claims 4.2 per cent reduction in poverty, 652 dollars per

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Assassination of Sheikh Yassin and the 'Spring Offensive'

From the archive (2004): a real-time reading of the Yassin assassination and the ‘Spring Offensive’ — how the moment was analysed as it unfolded.

Knowledge: Scholarship

Faith in the future: a Western Muslim perspective

A Lecture given by T. J. Winter; Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, may I express my warm gratitude to you all for paying me the compliment of attending today? It is particularly gratifying to me to attend an event in Pakistan, the only Muslim

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An American Overreach? by Imran Wyne

From the archive (2002): an original QeRN essay asking whether American power had overreached — the view from the Global South, written as the debate was live.

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Treaty of 1931 & Amal Kasi's funeral

From the archive (2002): Aimal Kasi’s funeral and the Treaty of 1931 — the particular detail that archives preserve and summaries erase.

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Open letter to the President of Pakistan

From the archive (2001): an open letter to Pakistan’s president — the case for permanent state capability to shape international opinion, not just comply with it.

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Dollars for Muslim lives

From the archive (2001): on aid offered to Pakistan at the start of the Afghan war — the permanent question of what assistance costs, and the case for economic self-reliance.

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Mr Musharaf's Interview

From the archive (2001): reading a Musharraf interview between the lines — close real-time analysis of official language, a skill worth teaching at scale.

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AlJazeera: Pakistan keeps borders closed to thousands

From the archive (2001): a translated AlJazeera dispatch on Afghan refugees at the Pakistani border — early citizen translation filling a reporting gap, years before social media.