Catriona Luke

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.