This writer is a British academic of Pakistani stock. He writes often about Pakistan and defends it firmly.

I loved this piece

------

http://www.atthegrapevine.com/wordpress/politics/rethinking-pakistan

"
No country in the world garners as much negative press as Pakistan, which on any given day is labelled as anything from an extremist ridden terrorist hotbed to a country in free fall that threatens to take its neighbourhood with it. None of these descriptions are accurate as anyone remotely familiar with the country knows, yet all these descriptions are parroted out daily simply because sensationalism sells and it’s open season on the Islamic world."

Read and comment on it.