South Asia /

Sep 06, 2019

Pakistan is harnessing Western media in the wake of the Kashmir crisis

Responding to India’s August annexation of Kashmir, Pakistani officials are using interviews,…

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Sep 06, 2019

Pakistan on Kashmir: “They have colonized the territory”

The WhatsApp message came an hour after I landed in Islamabad. Sardar Masood Khan, the president…

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Apr 28, 2019

Pakistan Claims Kashmir’s ‘Moral High Ground’

FEBRUARY 28, 2019, 3:45 PM KARACHI, Pakistan—“I feel like I am invisible,” the president of…

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Mar 06, 2019

War Averted. What Now for Kashmir?

March 6, 2019 We are back to crass, self-interested politics in South Asia. What a relief. After…

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Feb 28, 2019

New Delhi and Islamabad Don’t Want Fire and Fury

As hostilities between India and Pakistan escalate, leaders in both countries are very aware of…

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Jun 07, 2017

Nuclear Pakistan Sees The Saudi Game Against Qatar and Iran and Says, ‘No Thanks’

With the Arabs lashing out at each other—a family feud on steroids—nuclear-armed Pakistan is…

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Aug 20, 2016

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…

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Feb 04, 2016

‘The Rise of the American Taliban’

KARACHI, Pakistan (Feb. 4, 2016)— In the strongholds of hard-line Pakistani Islamist thought,…

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May 26, 2015

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…

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May 24, 2015

Who is killing Pakistan’s educated elite?

By Lawrence Pintak May 23, 2015 KARACHI, Pakistan — “We live in a kingdom of fear, fortified…

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Apr 26, 2014

Media, Policy, and Conflict in Pakistan

(April 25, 2014) -- Pakistan’s raucous and increasingly lethal media sector is exerting a…

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Jul 02, 2013

Pakistani Journalism: at the crossroads of Muslim identity, national priorities and journalistic culture

Lawrence Pintak and Syed Javed Nazir (July 2013) FOR FULL ARTICLE WITH CHARTS, VISIT SAGE JOURNAL…

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