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Getting AQ’s story out? —Ejaz Haider
I can imagine Henderson’s excitement over bringing to the world Khan’s account. But he should also be able to sift the grain from the chaff. And yes, the issue of who is using whom cannot be avoided even when the story is good and the subject enticing
Dr AQ Khan [...]
He’s not playing golf —Ejaz Haider
General Zia-ul-Haq was an armoured corps officer but always acted as a gunner and relied on indirect fire and the strategy of the indirect approach. Musharraf was a gunner but has always preferred direct fire
Like poltergeist former General-President Pervez Musharraf won’t go away.
Nawaz Sharif thinks the only way [...]
PDA @ LUMS —Ejaz Haider
The public domain puts certain constraints on the element of privacy but it is important to dispel the argument that someone can violate someone’s privacy simply because he/she was sitting in the open and therefore is not eligible to the privacy defence
Perplexed? Let’s leave it for a while and ask [...]
Zardari, army and the system —Ejaz Haider
All actors, the government, the opposition and the army are skating on thin ice. This offers the system an opportunity to consolidate itself by forcing them to understand the limits of what they can do and thereby respect the rules of the game
One year after Asif Ali Zardari’s [...]
The soldier and the lover… —Ejaz Haider
War, then, is the constant interaction of deadly prose and awe-inspiring poetry. I cannot think of any other human activity that embraces in itself, and subsumes, so many paradoxes and ironies: such selfishness and such selflessness, such ruthlessness and such compassion, such cold calculation and such passion
An evening [...]
Identifying rascality —Ejaz Haider
My larger point is: how many of us would not lie if lying were to save us from going under? None of us is “respectable” or at least has always been so, and that cliché about let he who is without sin cast the first stone holds even today
Is there a [...]
THE OTHER COLUMN: No easy answers —Ejaz Haider
I like to write deadpan. But sometimes, as I feel right now, I wish I could do justice in words and explain the situation and the men I just met. At times it is good to be poetic; not always, but sometimes
If you think it is dangerous [...]
‘Call’ democracy —Ejaz Haider
In the long run it is not the absence of dissent but its presence, manifested through accepted channels, that gives resilience to societies and states. Let’s have that flexibility. Brittleness makes societies and states break up
This is a country where we have ensured, over long years, and with much hard [...]
Holbrooke’s courtiers? —Ejaz Haider
When an officer cadet passes out from the military academy, he is required to conduct himself in a manner commensurate with his professional responsibilities. If we expect that of a subaltern, we expect way more from our president
As I sit in Islamabad, 20 minutes from Pakistan, and between Swat, where I [...]
The myth of the soldier —Ejaz Haider
If a state is faced with an existential threat, and knowing as we do that we cannot find an army of our choice but have to make do with the one we have, would it serve us better to help recreate the myth or highlight the ugly truths?
Nasir [...]
Complexity! —Ejaz Haider
Mr President, please remember that it is not like this country was born with your government, yesterday. It has been around for sixty-two years. Your democracy is not a virginal experiment
When do you know a country is complex (consider ‘complex’ a four-letter word)? There can be many benchmarks but I have here [...]
Non-proliferation and Pakistan —Ejaz Haider
Any discussion of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, what the country needs and whether it should be augmenting its capability has to unfold in the backdrop of the global security environment and what the “leaders” intend to do
Is it a coincidence that this month of May, in the run-up to the 11th [...]
Rational vs National —Ejaz Haider
History is the logic of might and for every slow community there is always a smarter one and the latter comes and screws the former. Thucydides was the first to report this and nothing seems to have changed since then
I was planning to write about some of our cultural practices [...]
The act of killing —Ejaz Haider
One cannot dismiss the plight of anyone, even a single individual. But neither can the policy-maker sit back and allow a situation to get out of hand. So while the heart bleeds, as it must, the hand must wield what is necessary
Here is a dilemma. How would I report [...]
Different sides of a different COIN —Ejaz Haider
When the army goes into an area where the insurgents are in control, it has to actually capture territory against an adversary that is both entrenched and flexible. It is not a matter of a few fire-fights
Some Indian analysts at a recent conference pointed out that the [...]