Articles by Pervez Hoodbhoy

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Pervez Hoodbhoy is professor of high-energy physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. (Pervez Hoodbhoy's ZNet HomePage )

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Bin Laden and Hiroshima (Japanese)

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July 2005, partly published in the LA Times.

Can Pakistan Work? A Country in Search of Itself (Japanese)

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Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec. 2004, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 122-129.

PAKISTAN: INSIDE THE NUCLEAR CLOSET (Japanese)

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March 3, 2004

THE NUCLEAR NOOSE AROUND PAKISTAN'S NECK (Japanese)

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Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2004

Iraq War --- The View From Islamabad (Japanese)

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April, 2003

IS IT A WAR ON ISLAM? (Japanese)

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January, 2003

WHAT I SAW IN OKARA

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This interview was scheduled to be published in The News (Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi) on 15 September 2002, but did not appear in print.

One Year Later --- The Morbid Calculus Of 9/11 : A View From Islamabad (Japanese)

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September, 2002

Were We Too Hijacked On 9/11? (Japanese)

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September, 2002

Musharraf And The Jihad Industry

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September, 2002

Fatal Friendships --- Pakistan and America four decades and four dictators later

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September, 2002

THE INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT --- TOWARDS THE FAILURE OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE (Japanese)

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with Zia Mian, September, 2002

WHAT, US WORRY?

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Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2002.

LIGHTING THE NUCLEAR FIRE

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Published on 28th May 2002, the anniversary of Pakistan's nuclear tests.

THE WAGES OF OBEDIENCE

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11 February, 2002 (published in THE NEWS)

MUSLIMS AND THE WEST AFTER 11 SEPTEMBER (Japanese)

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8 December, 2001

BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD (Japanese)

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15 September, 2001

EQBAL AHMAD -- AS I KNEW HIM (Japanese)

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Herald, ( Karachi) June, 1999.

SAY NO TO INDIAN & PAKISTANI BOMBS! (Japanese)

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Lecture at MIT, 12 May, 1998

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