It might be too lapsed in time, but the policy makers in the United States might learn a lot from the history of the British Raj in India. The British ruled the region we now call Pakistan and India for over a century. However, in a recent poll that I conducted, over 88 percent of […]
How the elite schools are destroying Pakistan
I might be extraordinary intelligent, well read, and analytical, but would that change my life in Pakistan? Not really! Because I don’t belong to Lahore American School, Karachi Grammar School, or any other private schools that only caters to those super elites in Pakistan who can afford the price tag of expensive private education. I […]
Chairman NAB a tough decision!
The long wait might finally be over. The PML-N and PPP-P have been able to come up with a consensus candidate for the slot of one of the most crucial positions in Pakistan: the chairman, National Accountability Bureau (NAB). While key positions including the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom are shamelessly […]
If the ISI did it
Imagine a situation: on May 2, 2011, US forces together with the Pakistani military and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) raided the Abbottabad house of Osama bin Laden, and took him out after a decade-long hunt. While the event would have internationally vindicated Pakistan and its security forces, especially the ISI from all its misgivings, imagine […]
A counter-terrorism strategy that was never made
Well over 90 percent of the university-going students in Lahore and Islamabad cannot differentiate between the Afghan Taliban and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). And 67 percent believe that the TTP is the enemy of the United States, and working in the interest of Pakistan. While 76 percent see the Baloch grievances as unjustified, and blame the […]
Focus on the military, not the drones
Having researched and written much on drone strikes, I, for one have stopped commenting on the issue due to the lack of real facts and figures owing to the covert nature of the programme. I am convinced that hardly any report that is published on drone strikes is free from the influence of one or […]
Voices from the NA-125 slums
“Sir, why can’t these rich people living in DHA understand that the poor people also have a right to vote?” One of my students at Government College University Lahore who comes from a humble background and voted for Saad Rafiq was annoyed by the allegations of rigging in NA 125, and disappointed in what he […]
Winning over the people in Pakistan s
It might be too lapsed in time, but the policy makers in the United States might learn a lot from the history of the British Raj in India. The British ruled the region we now call Pakistan and India for over a century. However, in a recent poll that I conducted, over 88 percent of […]