Islands in an ocean on November 22, 2020Everyone and everything eventually gets tired and retires. The substitution fills in the shoes and the life goes on. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif both created their political parties in the 60’s and the 80’s respectively. Significantly, our history remembers them both for their vision and the role they played in achievement of the […]
Politics is no child’s play on November 15, 2020Dictatorship grows in the womb of politics. Weak governments led by unsuitable, unqualified and incompetent leaders create compelling conditions for military dictators to take over. Despite over a decade’s continued democracy in this country, the opposition and its ill-conceived brainchild, the PDM, has learnt no lessons and is once again bent upon creating political conditions […]
Two-minded and two-hearted democrats on November 10, 2020It does not matter how many aircraft, tanks, battleships, and submarines a country has, but if its soldiers, airmen, and sailors are not willing to get into them and use them against the nation’s enemies then these expensive military machines will never be able to serve their purpose. Machines are important but the men operating […]
National security liability on November 2, 2020In February this year Pakistan Air Force shot down two Indian fighter aircraft when they violated our airspace. That was when an attack came from outside. Nine years ago, in this very month of November, another attack came from outside – a NATO air strike martyred our 24 soldiers at Salala checkpost. That too was […]