New Statesman - <![CDATA[Catriona Luke]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/catriona_luke en <![CDATA[Pakistan’s memogate and the undermining of civilian rule ]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/pakistan-military-civilian http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/pakistan-military-civilian Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:42:53 GMT Catriona Luke How the country's all-powerful military succeeded in bringing down the Pakistani ambassador to Washington.

]]> <![CDATA[How Pakistan uses US military aid as a cover]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/07/pakistan-state-military-baloch http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/07/pakistan-state-military-baloch Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:19:29 GMT Catriona Luke The US is withholding $800m in military aid. This money - ostensibly funding anti-Talbian operations - is used to disguise Pakistan's assault on Baloch nationalism.

]]> <![CDATA[Pakistan's tweeters take on the state]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/06/9608-quetta-pakistan-isi http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/06/9608-quetta-pakistan-isi Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:31:42 GMT Catriona Luke "Just spoke with ████ from the ISI. He tells me that █████ is in Quetta . █████ in Karachi . And Elvis is in █████ "

]]> <![CDATA[Saleem Shahzad: the journalist who was not afraid of the ISI]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/06/pakistan-isi-shahzad http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/06/pakistan-isi-shahzad Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:13:30 GMT Catriona Luke Pakistan's intelligence services are prime suspects for silencing the journalist.

]]> <![CDATA[What did Musharraf know?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/pakistan-musharraf-military http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/05/pakistan-musharraf-military Tue, 10 May 2011 11:21:58 GMT Catriona Luke His memoirs, written while he was still military president of Pakistan, are a fascinating source of inadvertent information.

]]> <![CDATA[Who rules Pakistan?]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/state-control-pakistan-bhatti http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/03/state-control-pakistan-bhatti Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:52:32 GMT Catriona Luke The country's democracy is a veneer for the shady controlling forces that sit behind it.

]]> <![CDATA[The young Pakistani actress taking on the mullahs]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2011/02/veena-malik-pakistan-media http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2011/02/veena-malik-pakistan-media Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:58:25 GMT Catriona Luke Veena Malik's feisty and intelligent attack has become a YouTube hit, but is ignored by the Pakistani broadsheets.

]]> <![CDATA[The curse of superpowers is to see only their own reflection]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/11/160-world-understanding http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/11/160-world-understanding Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:25:33 GMT Catriona Luke WikiLeaks above all shows the difficulty the US has in understanding other cultures and societies.

]]> <![CDATA[China and Iran vie for the subcontinent]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/pakistan-india-iran-china http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/pakistan-india-iran-china Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:49:32 GMT Catriona Luke Iran’s destabilising influence in Afghanistan is just the tip of a geopolitical iceberg.

]]> <![CDATA[Why I love Pakistan]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/08/-9 http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/08/-9 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:33:52 GMT Catriona Luke Despite its terrible troubles, this part of the western subcontinent is lively, beautiful and misunderstood.

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