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,…
Pakistan on Kashmir: “They have colonized the territory”
The WhatsApp message came an hour after I landed in Islamabad. Sardar Masood Khan, the president…
Pakistan Claims Kashmir’s ‘Moral High Ground’
FEBRUARY 28, 2019, 3:45 PM KARACHI, Pakistan—“I feel like I am invisible,” the president of…
War Averted. What Now for Kashmir?
March 6, 2019 We are back to crass, self-interested politics in South Asia. What a relief. After…
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…
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…
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…
‘The Rise of the American Taliban’
KARACHI, Pakistan (Feb. 4, 2016)— In the strongholds of hard-line Pakistani Islamist thought,…
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…
Who is killing Pakistan’s educated elite?
By Lawrence Pintak May 23, 2015 KARACHI, Pakistan — “We live in a kingdom of fear, fortified…
Media, Policy, and Conflict in Pakistan
(April 25, 2014) -- Pakistan’s raucous and increasingly lethal media sector is exerting a…
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…