Follow the work and travels through Afghanistan and Tajikistan as well as political, business, professional and personal musings of an international crisis management consultant and frequent political commentator. Best consumed with a hot cup of coffee.
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CAIRO – Just a very quick post to comment on a brief moment, well in fact about five minutes, of unusual oddness. Not to be confused with run-of-the-mill oddness, mind you, which abounds in my circles these days.
As I returned to my hotel room, the...
ISLAMABAD — I returned last night from two and half days in Lahore, where I spent some time socially with a few well-educated business associates and asked their opinions on the war in Afghanistan, the one here in Pakistan and the political mindset of...
ISLAMABAD – On arrival in Islamabad I had to declare if I’d visited Africa or Europe in the past six days — just to make sure I was free of bird or swine flu, presumably. Naturally, I forgot that Egypt was in Africa… is it?
Now, if they’d asked me...
ISLAMABAD – Thus begins a primer used in some Pakistani private schools, according to the May 23 international edition of Time Magazine. How Pakistan failed itself by Aryn Baker alleges the primer goes on to teach: “T is for Thakrau, collision,...
CAIRO — OK, so it’s been a long time since I posted. Many reasons. No excuses. But, to ease back into it, I thought I’d share some of my favorite stupid subject lines from the 1,263 unread spam emails in my junk folder.
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