Catriona Luke
Articles by Catriona Luke
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Politics
Pakistan’s memogate and the undermining of civilian rule
- 26 November 2011
- 1 comment
How the country's all-powerful military succeeded in bringing down the Pakistani ambassador to Washington.
How Pakistan uses US military aid as a cover
- 11 July 2011
- 5 comments
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.
Asia
Pakistan's tweeters take on the state
- 22 June 2011
- 5 comments
"Just spoke with ████ from the ISI. He tells me that █████ is in Quetta . █████ in Karachi . And Elvis is in █████ "
Saleem Shahzad: the journalist who was not afraid of the ISI
- 04 June 2011
- 9 comments
Pakistan's intelligence services are prime suspects for silencing the journalist.
Asia
What did Musharraf know?
- 10 May 2011
- 5 comments
His memoirs, written while he was still military president of Pakistan, are a fascinating source of inadvertent information.
Asia
Who rules Pakistan?
- 08 March 2011
- 2 comments
The country's democracy is a veneer for the shady controlling forces that sit behind it.
Asia
The young Pakistani actress taking on the mullahs
- 09 February 2011
- 4 comments
Veena Malik's feisty and intelligent attack has become a YouTube hit, but is ignored by the Pakistani broadsheets.
International Politics
The curse of superpowers is to see only their own reflection
- 29 November 2010
- 8 comments
WikiLeaks above all shows the difficulty the US has in understanding other cultures and societies.
Asia
China and Iran vie for the subcontinent
- 28 October 2010
- 11 comments
Iran’s destabilising influence in Afghanistan is just the tip of a geopolitical iceberg.
Why I love Pakistan
- 26 August 2010
- 96 comments
Despite its terrible troubles, this part of the western subcontinent is lively, beautiful and misunderstood.











