India, Israel and the Coordination of Control

How Modi is weaponizing the 'Israeli Experience' to target dissent.

Abdulla Moaswes • 14 min read

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India, Israel and the Coordination of Control

How India weaponizes the 'Israeli Experience' to target dissent.

Abdulla Moaswes • 14 min read

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China's New Silk Road Strategy

In the current issue [http://www.merip.org/mer/latest] of Middle East Report, we write about the strategic logic of China’s increasing investment in teaching Middle Eastern languages [http://www.merip.org/mer/mer270/chinas-strategic-middle-eastern-languages], particularly Arabic, Persian and Turkish

I-wei Jennifer Chang, Haiyun Ma • 3 min read

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Mao in a Muslim Land

In the coming years, China is expected to invest some $18 billion in an “economic corridor” crossing Pakistan to the Arabian Sea at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The latest installment is the development of the Pakistani port of Gwadar. The port scheme is a strategic move linked to the restoration

Kamran Asdar Ali • 4 min read

MER Article

Quetta's Sectarian Violence and the Global Hazara Awakening

On a cold February day in London, over 40 Hazara men, women and children sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the King George V monument opposite the Houses of Parliament. They were protesting the bombing of a vegetable market on February 16 in Quetta, Pakistan, that killed at least 91 of their br

Zuzanna Olszewska • 16 min read

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Drones, US Propaganda and Imperial Hubris

Pakistanis should be more supportive of having their national sovereignty violated by Americans, according to US-based political scientists who favor drone strikes in Pakistan. I am trying hard not make this sound like an Onion article, even though it does. In a January 23 article [http://www.theat

Sarah Waheed • 5 min read

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An Indecent Proposal?

Quite a few eyebrows were raised last week when Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, perhaps one of the most infamous “terrorists” in Pakistan, extended an offer of humanitarian aid to the United States in the wake of Hurricane Sandy -- notwithstanding the $10 million bounty [http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/index

Darryl Li • 6 min read

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Plain Old Murder

Drones are President Barack Obama’s weapon of choice in the war on terror. Since taking office, he has ordered over 280 drone strikes in Pakistan alone. That’s more than eight times as many as George W. Bush authorized and doesn’t even count the scores of other unmanned attacks in Somalia and Yemen

Chris Toensing • 2 min read

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America's Pakistan

American policymakers and their advisers are struggling with the question of Pakistan. The last ten years have produced a host of policy reviews, study group reports, congressional hearings and a few academic and more popular books, with more expected as the 2014 deadline for the end of US major com

Sharon K. Weiner, Zia Mian • 21 min read

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Pakistan, the Army and the Conflict Within

Pakistan’s generals are besieged on all sides. Like never before, they are at odds with their own rank and file. According to the New York Times, the discontent with the top brass is so great as to evoke concerns of a colonels’ coup. The army also is losing support from its domestic political allies

Pervez Hoodhboy, Zia Mian • 12 min read

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Washington Still Refuses to Learn an Obvious Lesson

Back in 2004, three years into the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 Commission report made its debut to the gushing admiration of the Washington press corps. The report was everything that the mainstream media adores: bipartisan, devoid of divisive finger-pointing, full of conventional wisdom. Tak

Chris Toensing • 2 min read

MER Article

American "Blood Money" and a Question of Reparations

In the city of Lahore, Pakistan on January 27, 2011, a 36-year old American CIA contractor named Raymond Davis was charged with double murder in the deaths of two Pakistani men, Faizan Haider and Fahim Shamshad. Newspaper accounts describe Davis firing his gun at two men on motorcycles whom he belie

Susan Slyomovics • 8 min read