Mustafa Qadri

Mustafa Qadri Last Updated: Nov 23, 2010 Over the weekend the leaders of Nato unanimously agreed to start withdrawing from Afghanistan by 2014. Timed so as not to clash with the expected re-election bid of the US president Barack Obama in 2012, the announcement comes at a moment when the US-led war against al Qa’eda [...]

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Cricket was once a pleasure, writes Mustafa Qadri. AT THE end of another day of bad news and fasting during this hot, holy month of Ramadan, Pakistanis were rushing to their televisions to watch their cricket team take the stage after a long hiatus. For generations, cricket has been one of the few outlets for [...]

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Zardari’s decision to visit Europe as Pakistan is ravaged by floods reflects the elite’s flagrant indifference to human suffering Mustafa Qadri, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 August 2010 10.00 BST Contempt for human life is at the heart of Pakistan’s miseries. Although the relationship between rich and poor is complex and far from monolithically asymmetrical, fundamental inequalities make [...]

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Negotiating with the Taliban is too little, too late – western allies need to fix the socioeconomic mess started long before 9/11

Mustafa Qadri
guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 08.00 GMT

Memory spans are short in modern politics, but even by those standards the relative ease with which the discourse on Afghanistan has shifted from fighting the Taliban to negotiating with them is remarkable.

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ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz spent over one billion rupees on 47 foreign visits during 2004-07. He had also falsely claimed after his visit to Saudi Arabia that he had paid the expenses from his own pocket. The Foreign Office revealed this in the National Assembly on Monday.

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Benazir Bhutto’s widower is accusing President Musharraf of siphoning off millions from aid intended to support war on terror.

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