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A Word of Warning to the COAS!
Posted on22. Feb, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi A wise adversary’s intrusiveness is better than a foolish friend’s counsel. (adapted from an old proverb) Three fundamentally vital points in this proposal need to be clearly stated at the very outset: One: The COAS is the most important actor in the conceptualization, making and the [...]
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In Defense of the Pak Army!
Posted on14. Feb, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “Two wrongs do not make a right.” An old proverb In my article “Re-inventing the Role” ( The Nation December 12, 2007), I advocated a new strategic-management doctrine for civil-military relations in a democratic Pakistan. At the time, it was hailed by many prominent progressive political [...]
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What is Democracy?
Posted on31. Jan, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group.” Franklin D. [...]
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Men Who Fell From the Sky
Posted on25. Jan, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “The mad-man committed suicide, the hero offered himself up to martyrdom in the name of a cause, but both would die, and the embittered would spend many nights and days remarking on the absurdity and glory of both.” From a Novelist of an International Bestseller [...]
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Pakistan: Politics of Rhetoric
Posted on17. Jan, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “They (become) unable to leave their world, where they (have) spent enormous reserves of energy constructing high walls in order to make reality what they (want) it to be… In order to avoid external attack, they (have) also deliberately limited internal growth.” Paulo Coelho, 1998 novel In [...]
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The Anatomy of Self-Reliance
Posted on12. Jan, 2012 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “Nothing in this world happens by chance.” -Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die The word “anatomy” is used here to mean a structure and a framework for a political management process and a political organization that can turn around an impoverished and externally dependent nation into [...]
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Pakistan: Has the People’s Revolution Arrived?
Posted on31. Dec, 2011 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “Can those who can see be equal to those who cannot?” – Al Qur’an. Today’s most important question is: Has the people’s revolution arrived in Pakistan? Indeed, Imran Khan’s promised “tsunami” hit the Karachi shores on Quaid-e-Azam’s birthday at Quaid’s ‘mizaar’ – a symbolic re-birth of Quaid’s [...]
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Why the PPP & PML-N are Politically Outdated
Posted on25. Oct, 2011 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi A profound proverb in the Punjabi language on understanding human behavior is as follows: 'Kah kawah dey the prah prahwah dey.' The meaning is quite simple: Folks of the same breed always stick together. But an in depth comprehension of this saying provides a wealth of [...]
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Stop Slaughtering the Lambs!
Posted on19. Oct, 2011 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi “What is happening in Pakistan is a well-drawn plan between the west and the leaders of Pakistan. Soon there would be turmoil in Pakistan and civil war-like conditions would be created. Baluchistan would eventually be given to Afghanistan. USA’s agenda of punishing the Muslims after 9/11, would be [...]
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Telling Lies in Democratic Pakistan!
Posted on11. Oct, 2011 by Dr Haider Mehdi.
NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST By Dr. Haider Mehdi Ey parto khurshid jehan-tab idher bi Siye ki tarh, hum pay ajab waqt para hai (O World-illuminating Sun! Cast your splendor here (on us, in this direction) too; A strange time, like a shadow, has come upon us) Ghalib – Translation, Aijaz Ahmad The Urdu [...]
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