Sunjeev Bery

Category: Pakistan

  • Arresting Freedom

    Pakistani President Asif Zardari has given his orders, and compliant law enforcement officers in Pakistan are arresting rival politicians and activists.  Team Zardari is taking pre-emptive measures to block Pakistan’s Lawyers Movemnt and allies from pursuing their Long March. The March 12th Long March is a call for a restoration of an independent judicary in…

  • Twittering Freedom

    As Pakistani President Asif Zardari cracks down on pro-democracy activists, a handful of Pakistanis are posting short bursts of information on Twitter.  You can follow their “freedom tweets” online.  The best tag is probably #Pakistan: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23Pakistan But you can also go with either of the following…

  • McCain’s Simple Narrative

    Last Wednesday, U.S. Senator John McCain gave a tough talk at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank. His topic was Afghanistan.   His message was that the U.S. is losing the war. The situation in Afghanistan is nowhere near as dire as it was in Iraq just two years ago …  But the…

  • Pakistan’s Long March is an Important Step to Democracy

    (Post co-written with Samad Khurram,  a Pakistani citizen who participated in the 2008 Long March.  Samad is currently a student at Harvard University.) There is something about marching for democracy that captures the imagination.  Perhaps it is because walking is the simplest of human activities.  One foot goes in front of the other, and a…

  • Opinion: U.S. policies have weakened Pakistani civilian rule

    …it is fairly clear that the idea of the Taliban somehow controlling Pakistan’s 172 million people is absurd.