D Asghar

A lot has been said about what is ahead once Mr. Trump takes the oath of office. There are all sorts of speculations, about what he will do and so on and so forth. The so called liberal media here in the US, is making every effort to cast all kinds of doubts and confusion, […]

I was trying to plead my case to the Passport Officer about my mother’s passport because he had some questions that I was trying to respond in my mother’s absence. I saw a young man, who was perhaps there to pick up his wife’s passport. He was visibly concerned as well, as he was about […]

Call it a manufacturing defect in our DNA or something that is somewhat unique about us, especially in the people of the Indian Subcontinent, we remain fixated to the individuals and tend to idolise them to the extent of obsession. Take the example of the recently retired General Raheel Sharif. The electronic and print media […]

I am no Nostradamus but I invite all of you to revisit this publication and a write-up of this very ordinary scribe by the title of “The Trump Cart” dated 12 March 2016. My personal political preferences aside what I wrote back then was the reading that I had based on the happenings around me. […]

Here in the US, the Thanksgiving Day holiday will be celebrated towards the end of this month, with usual fervor and the ceremonial dish of turkey. In Pakistan, a similar day of gratitude was celebrated a couple of days ago; however, it was just limited to the capital and observed by only one particular political […]

No, I am not going to waste my breath on the usual disbelief, condemnation and sorrow. No disrespect to the poor young souls who lost their lives in the recent Quetta police academy attack, I was equally outraged and saw the usual and expected reaction on my Twitter timeline. Very typical, very much expected and […]

I must admit that I am a nobody when it comes to domestic politics back home. As a very ordinary observer, I look up to the heavyweights of political analysis to remain informed. Very sadly, I must say I am deeply disappointed with all of them on one particular point. No wonder why our pesky […]

Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels played the title roles of two demented friends in the 1994 Hollywood comedy hit, Dumb and Dumber. The two simpletons land themselves in a lot of trouble by indulging in honest bloopers. It sure seems like someone in Pakistan government was inspired by the aforementioned duo so much that they […]

I can say with confidence that if social scientists would ever venture into researching human behaviour, they might uncover a strange phenomenon. Any time ‘patriotism’ or ‘nationalism’ is introduced or invoked within normal people it yields sudden behavioural shifts. The data would be quite revealing if it were tested prior to and after a particular […]

With heightened tempers, jingoistic slogans and warmongering on TV screens of the usually angry neighbours, my thesis gets its usual endorsement. The Brits were driven away from the subcontinent because their occupation was illegal, immoral and, above all, it deprived many of their basic right of existence. The bright minds of that time came up […]