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The paradox of complexity

Letter March 18, 2012
The bottom-line is that Imran Khan is entirely jejune and reductive in his thinking.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND: This is with reference to Ejaz Haider’s article of March 15, titled “The paradox of complexity”. Saroop Ijaz might have been careless with his adjectives but at least what he wrote was readable. Mr Haider’s piece was like reading a paper in the International Journal of Applied Sociology. I would do that if I were reading for my Masters’ thesis, but I feel newspaper opinion pieces should be less viscous. The bottom-line is that Imran Khan is entirely jejune and reductive in his thinking; he cannot see or understand complexity. He thinks all terrorism will end by withdrawing from the American alliance and all corruption will end by making an example of a few bigwigs. Hence the 90/19 days claptrap.

Shehzad Shah


Published in The Express Tribune, March 19th, 2012.