Hybrid warfare challenges for Pakistan on October 18, 2018During their meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt in 2009, then PM Yousuf Raza Gilani handed over a dossier of RAW’s involvement in terrorist activities to his counterpart, PM Manmohan Singh. The dossier highlighted just how India’s security and intelligence agencies had been using Afghanistan’s soil to train and fund terrorist activities in FATA and […]
The ‘untouchable’ Malik Riaz on October 17, 2018In 2013, Shoaib Suddle, the Federal Tax Ombudsman investigating Malik Riaz and Arsalan Iftikhar, son of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, ordered the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to recover of Rs 119 billion owed by real estate tycoon Malik Riaz in taxes. No surprise that this was set aside by then president, Asif Ali […]
Different forms of hybrid warfare on October 11, 2018The definitions of what Hybrid Warfare is are different between the US and Russia, so much so, that the actual tools are different until today as well. The US is the more ‘modern’ or ‘creative’ user while Russia is more conservative and relies more on traditional tools. One very prominent tool of the US Hybrid […]
Spreading falsehood and distorting facts on October 9, 2018Initiated in 2014, the Ashiana-Iqbal Project could not be completed mainly because an illegal award increased the cost, if the project is initiated now the increased cost of Rs 40 billion will be borne either by the applicants or by the government. As Director General (DG) of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) from 2013 to 2016,Ahad […]
Hybrid warfare on October 5, 2018Hybrid warfare came to prominence in the 21st century, this new form of warfare avoiding a clear differentiation between war and peace, soldiers and civilians is practiced by all sides of the different divides. According to Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz “every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting […]
At the heart of governance on September 25, 2018Good governance can only be provided through a capable, dedicated and effective civil service, which is devoted to serving the people and also act as a ‘steel frame’ that holds the country together. Unfortunately, in Pakistan they became the rulers themselves, contributing hugely to be disintegration of the state through their capricious, arbitrary and arrogant […]
No more PSLs abroad on September 20, 2018For years, Pakistan had not hosted a single game at home because of the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers’ busin Lahore. The Pakistan Super League (PSL) launched in 2016 and became an instant hit in and outside Pakistan. The real success came with PSL 2017when the final was played in Lahore. A […]
A matter of shame on September 14, 2018That the wolves would soon be at the door should not have surprised anybody. What is surprising, however, is that Imran Khan’s people were not better prepared to deal with the hungry pack left out in the political cold. Despite the losers’ calling for mass rejection of the alleged rigging of the July 25 elections, […]
John McCain, an extraordinary American on September 7, 2018John McCain III was born into a naval family, to John S McCain Jr and Roberta McCain at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone. His father, Admiral John S. McCain II, served as Commander United States Pacific Command while paternal grandfather, John S. McCain Sr. was also a four-star United States […]
Common man’s uncommon PM on August 26, 2018Imran Khan has won the Pakistani hearts over through the candid and honest manner in which he addressed the nation as Prime Minister. Delivered from the heart, in simple words- his points were scribbled in his own handwriting giving them extra value. The poverty-stricken masses have been waiting for their leaders to deliver such a […]