Can Cartoons Save Pakistan’s Children From Jihad?
AUGUST 19, 2016, 7:42 PM LAHORE, Pakistan — “How do we prevent the 5-year-old in Pakistan from becoming a radical?” U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan asked in an April interview. Imran Azhar has a…
Not All Islamists are Out to Kill Us
JULY 19, 2016, 9:00 AM The challenge tweeted by Donald Trump’s military advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, in the hours after the horrific Nice massacre was clear and direct: “In next 24 hours, I…
The Muslims Are Coming! The Muslims Are Coming!
American Islamophobia is as old as Plymouth Rock, but we've never seen anything quite like this before. The Muslims Are Coming! The Muslims Are Coming! They are “terrorist savages” and…
Portland Is the Most Livable City in America — Except if You’re Muslim
Muslims in Oregon’s largest city have faced suspicion, entrapment, and targeting. Now here comes Trump and Cruz. By Lawrence PintakPORTLAND, OR - JANUARY 20, 2013 - Vehicle lights create light…
‘The Rise of the American Taliban’
KARACHI, Pakistan (Feb. 4, 2016)— In the strongholds of hard-line Pakistani Islamist thought, they are talking about Donald Trump and laughing. Then they shake their heads with concern. “He…
A chessboard Middle East: Russia’s pawn is Syria
By Lawrence Pintak, Special to The Seattle Times -- (Oct. 17, 2015) MODERN Syria is dead. Russia’s intervention into the bloody four-year conflict cements that reality. Now U.S. policymakers…
Money, politics, power struggles — Pakistan’s media scandal has it all
By Lawrence Pintak (May 25, 2015) KARACHI, Pakistan — A government raid on the company that is bankrolling Pakistan’s newest media conglomerate has highlighted the corruption and infighting…
Who is killing Pakistan’s educated elite?
By Lawrence Pintak May 23, 2015 KARACHI, Pakistan — “We live in a kingdom of fear, fortified by religious extremism and intolerance,” columnist Ghazi Salahiddin recently wrote in The News on…
How Bob Simon, Brian Williams Present a Parable of the Digital Age
(Feb. 13, 2015) It’s not about you; it’s about the story. That’s what we tell TV journalism students. The tragic death of 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon reminds us that even in the video…
We Are Not All Charlie Hebdo
(Jan. 18, 2015) It was a good week for American journalism. To state the obvious, there is no justification for the brutal attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo by al-Qaida-inspired…
Media, Policy, and Conflict in Pakistan
(April 25, 2014) -- Pakistan’s raucous and increasingly lethal media sector is exerting a powerful effect on decision-making in the country, even though journalists themselves are divided on…
Russia’s Grab for Ukraine, Georgia
(Tbilisi, Georgia) Feb. 28, 2014 -- IMAGINE if Washington state residents had been barred from the Vancouver Olympics because Canada refused to give us visas. Imagine if we couldn’t get there…
