The unequal partners on October 30, 2013Rhetoric and emotional rants aside, folks in our neck of the woods love to remain in a delusional and self-created cocoon. Take the recent visit of the premier, Mr Nawaz Sharif to Washington, for example. A lot was said about his visit in the print and electronic media. Don’t know who but someone was drumming […]
The insane guilt by association on October 25, 2013It seems like a page taken out from the page of a movie script. A rather unknown girl, Malala Yousafzai, living in a small town of Pakistan, becomes the darling of millions around the globe, almost instantaneously. Thanks to the electronic and social media, which brought her dreadful encounter with death to the fore, and […]
Some rather outlandish statements on October 2, 2013There is no dearth of bizarre and outlandish statements from our parts of the world. Take the Saudi cleric for example, who opined that if women drove cars, it can harm their reproductive organs and the ability to bear children. I always wonder what is with the Saudi Arab clerics and the driving of automobiles […]
The confusion doctrine on September 25, 2013The confusion never ends. No matter what happens, no matter what evidence, no matter what atrocity unfolds, no matter how many bodies are buried and no matter what the amount of destruction is. The people are tangled in their warped state of mind and condemnation after condemnation; it is business as usual. The twitter timelines, […]
Some random yet unanswered questions on September 18, 2013Too many thoughts are zooming by like scenes from a movie. Some may make sense to one and some may not. However, it is quite interesting to see how things unfold in the land of the pure. Take the most heinous crime of rape of a five-year-old in Lahore that shook the conscience of the […]
Same juncture, different day on September 11, 2013Last week ended with a high note of patriotic fervour as usual as the nation celebrated Defence Day. This is a day that marks the valour of Pakistani uniformed men who stalled the attack on Lahore from our presumed archrival, India. And 48 years later, each year this day is celebrated with the same zeal […]
The impending conflict on September 4, 2013Thankfully some sense prevailed when Prime Minister Cameron of UK went to his lawmakers for an intervention in Syria. The narrow lead of the lawmakers who rejected his bidding was encouraging. It showed that the people of the UK are tired of playing second fiddle to the US and rubber stamping every move of the […]
The internal Armageddon on August 28, 2013Apparently, there has been this deafening silence from the usual noisy quarters on our turf, which at least is worth a mention. The silence I am referring to is from the noise makers who get riled up on every drone strike and create a lot of hue and cry. Not a single year goes by, […]
The Capitals punishment on August 21, 2013No, I am not going to criticise the security lapse at the recent standoff in the Federal Capital, where a lone gunman along with his wife and two children held the city hostage for over five hours. Nor am I going to piece together the ‘conspiracy theory’ of the respectable interior minister labelling it an […]
The Capitals punishment s on August 21, 2013No, I am not going to criticise the security lapse at the recent standoff in the Federal Capital, where a lone gunman along with his wife and two children held the city hostage for over five hours. Nor am I going to piece together the ‘conspiracy theory’ of the respectable interior minister labelling it an […]