There is much interest in Pakistan’s political and cultural dynamic these days. Hardly a week passes by when you don’t come across some article or the other in the international press highlighting and celebrating Pakistan’s apparently new found inclination for modernism, or ‘enlightened moderation’ if I were to use Musharraf’s now worn out neologism.
Such writers [...]
The Myth Of Pakistan & Musharraf’s Liberalism
Pakistan Less Corrupt This Year Than Before
According to the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) drawn up every year by the Transparency International (TI), Pakistan is the 40th most corrupt country in the world out of the 180 countries listed, an improvement from last year’s 14th most corrupt country out of 163 countries listed, and from 2005’s 11th most corrupt country from 159 [...]
