Hazards Fighting Corruption on September 26, 2019Over the decades corruption has become deeply entrenched in the institutions of the state and in the business of fighting corruption, it is one of the most important objectives of the current PTI government. Corruption has damaged the Pakistani state, its social fabric, its economy and its national security. Fighting corruption therefore remains one of […]
A giant among men bravest of the brave: Brig Muhammad Taj SJ & BAR on September 17, 2019Brig Muhammad Taj SJ & Bar died peacefully in CMH, Rawalpindi on Sep 16, 2019 in the early hours of the morning. He was buried the same day in his native village Dewal Sharif, his Soyem is today. While I personally alongwith all the officers and men of 44 Punjab (now 4 Sindh) grieve for him, I […]
A fragmented India on September 13, 2019With its multiple ethnicities, languages and sub-nationalisms a subcontinent rather than a country, India was bound to face many tensions and even centrifugal tendencies from its very beginning. This recognition by the early rulers notwithstanding multiple separatist movements have developed over the years. Consecutive Indian governments have tackled the problem to a large extent by […]
India’s dreams will be frustrated on September 12, 2019A day before the planned Sunday secret negotiations between President Trump, President Ghani and representatives of the Taliban at Camp David, it was cancelled. The meeting was meant to eliminate the disagreements that the Afghan president and parts of the US leadership had with the draft peace agreement, the result of almost a year’s negotiations […]
More bang for the buck on September 6, 2019While I was in uniform on Sep 6, 1965 it was in the relative safe confines of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul. It was quite emotional witnessing the gentleman cadets (GCs) of the 32nd and 33rd PMA Long Courses graduate in a ceremonial “Passing Out” parade under the cover of PAF combat aircraft on […]
Lebensraumin reverse Modi Hitlerian apprentice on September 3, 2019An updated document called the National Register of Citizens of India (NRC) has declared 1.9 million Assamese foreigners and will deport them. A state in northeast India Assam situated south of the eastern Himalayas. It is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and […]
Tremendous National Security Decision on August 21, 2019Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has been appointed as COAS for another term, his new term beginning when his present term expires in Nov 2019. The PM Imran Khan has taken this step “in view of the regional security environment”. He is very correct! I may add that Qamar Bajwa has contributed tremendously to correcting an […]
Indian human rights record on August 18, 2019India’s human rights record of India has been a matter of dispute since its independence from British rule in 1947. The Indian Republic under the Indian National Congress (INC) soon became them to be regarded internationally as the “largest democracy in the world”. Even after the power of the Nehru dynasty was broken changes of […]
Make higher command effective on August 15, 2019Gen Mac Arthur’s adage, “old soldiers never die, they simply fade away” suited the upright and correct Gen Muhammad Shariff most, he was the role model of a professional soldier par excellence. He authored the concept of Higher Defence Organisation (HDO) in the early 70swhich than PM ZA Bhutto adopted, not for military purposes but […]
Cry Kashmir! on August 9, 2019It remains unclear if BJP can scrap the special status Kashmir has enjoyed for over fifty years by deleting articles 35A and 370 from the Indian Constitution and if so, can such fundamental change legally be introduced into the basic Law of the Land by just a Presidential Order without a vote in favour by […]