Can America Get Away With Murder?
The Murder On the crispy afternoon of January 27, in crowded downtown Lahore, a guy who later...
Read MoreShahid R. Siddiqi began his career in the Pakistan Air Force. He later joined the corporate sector with which he remained associated until recently in a senior management position. Alongside, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan and remained the Islamabad bureau chief of an English weekly magazine ‘Pakistan & Gulf Economist’. In the U.S. he co-founded the Asian American Republican Club in Maryland in 1994 to encourage the participation of Asian Americans in the mainstream political process. He now writes columns and can be reached at shahidrsiddiqi@gmail.com.
Posted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Feb 21, 2011 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
The Murder On the crispy afternoon of January 27, in crowded downtown Lahore, a guy who later...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Feb 5, 2011 | Asia Pacific, Viewpoints |
When Mohandas Gandhi, the god-father of India who will be revered as the leading light of its...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Jan 25, 2011 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
Muslims are a suspect community in India and, in some states more than others, are increasingly...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Dec 22, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
Insurgencies do not emerge in a vacuum. Their underlying root causes are invariably to be found in political, socio-economic, or religious domains; their nature and scope depending upon the nature of the grievances, motivations...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Nov 17, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
With such a large numbers of players involved in varying degrees and with too many overlapping internal and external interests, the truth behind the Mumbai saga will perhaps never come out. If he chooses to speak the truth, perhaps David Headley will have the last word.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Oct 25, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
Obama Should Nudge India Towards Early Resolution of Kashmir Issue
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Oct 15, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |
Pakistan rebuffs attempts by shutting down military supply route for US/NATO forces
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Oct 4, 2010 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis |
‘A deal has been reached’ say the insiders in Islamabad. After a week of intense brinkmanship by the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership, dramatic developments resulting from Supreme Court proceedings and sensational...
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Sep 23, 2010 | US |
Of late, the Muslim community in the US has been living on the edge. Targets of “growing tide of fear and intolerance”, as the Islamic Society of North America puts it, Muslims are at a loss to deal with the outburst of hostility they now experience in their daily lives.
Read MorePosted by Shahid R. Siddiqi | Sep 7, 2010 | Asia Pacific, Viewpoints |
Selig Harrison loses no opportunity to show that Pakistan’s disintegration is only around the corner and prove that Sino-Pakistan relations threaten US interests.
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