2014

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A hectic holiday season

A personal note on a busy December, with Yalda alongside Christmas, and a link to a friend’s blog post on David Beckham’s Haig Club whisky.

Brown Pundits Archive30 December 20140 comments
Pakistan: Litfests and Bookfairs – Two Worlds? by Ajmal Kamal

Ajmal Kamal argues that Karachi’s Literature Festival and its International Book Fair look past each other, the first favouring English-language writing, the second dominated by Urdu books of a religious-sectarian…

Brown Pundits Archive26 December 20140 comments
Pakistan Predictions 2015

Brown Pundits Archive23 December 20140 comments
Waiting in Bethlehem

After the Peshawar school attack, the author argues Pakistan needs real civilian leadership and societal change of mindset, which the military cannot deliver, and doubts the hereditary political class, while…

Brown Pundits Archive20 December 20140 comments
Changing Pakistan after Peshawar: The Role of the State

Days after the Peshawar school massacre, the author asks whether Pakistan’s state will make lasting changes, posing hard questions such as who counts as a ‘terrorist’, and traces how puritanical…

Brown Pundits Archive19 December 20140 comments
Massacre of the Innocents: Death Comes Again to Peshawar

A response to the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar, describing the attackers as trained men following rules they drew from sharia, and arguing the army has not abandoned its…

Brown Pundits Archive17 December 20140 comments
Turning 30

A short personal post marking the author’s thirtieth birthday.

Brown Pundits Archive14 December 20140 comments
Blasphemy meme devours it’s own. JJ, Aamir Liaqat and chickens coming home to roost…

A list of video links on the blasphemy controversy around Junaid Jamshed, including statements by Aamir Liaqat and clerics, under a title suggesting the author sees the blasphemy ‘meme’ turning…

Brown Pundits Archive13 December 20140 comments
Russell Brand is a disaster

A short comment that all are hypocrites, that the Establishment dislikes Russell Brand more than Nigel Farage, that neither shows leadership qualities, and that the Crown remains in a constitutional…

Brown Pundits Archive12 December 20140 comments
Incomplete without the feet

Brown Pundits Archive12 December 20140 comments