India’s (Possible) China war? on June 5, 2020Despite the ongoing pandemic hitting India more than China, India has been engaging in blunders like anti-Muslim policies and the Kashmir settlement laws in the disputed area of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) in utter disregard to UN Resolutions and international laws and norms. Force-multiplying their problems Modi and his BJP Govt is now trying to […]
Difficult problems, intelligent solution on May 22, 2020Mass poverty and pandemics are both facts of life that involve millions of people at the same time. The paramount requirement is to balance life with livelihood but not be stupid giving undue weightage to one over the other. Relief measures have to cater to millions of people after credible inspection tests have been identified […]
Horses for courses on May 19, 2020The Imran Khan government came into power in 2018 declaring fighting poverty and corruption as their main objectives. To reach this ‘Naya Pakistan’ a new poverty alleviation ‘Ehsaas’ program was launched in March 2019. Dr Sania Nishtar, a public health specialist and seasoned poverty and health care politician, took charge while also taking control of […]
Countering raw’s hybrid warfare on May 15, 2020India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is supposedly dedicated to foreign intelligence gathering, actually it carries out all covert and subversive activities on both foreign and domestic soil (where it is not supposed to). Its “false flag” operations to blame others for such activities, mainly Pakistan but others as well require domestic intervention causing deaths, […]
Confronting crisis looming from Afghanistan on May 12, 2020One cannot condemn an entire nation as ungrateful but as a govt Afghanistan certainly qualifies. Despite all that Pakistan has done for Afghans over the last for decades, Pakistan’s relationship with its western neighbour has been difficult from the beginning actually to say the least. The main bone of contention is the Durand Line, a […]
The “Lucky” Luciano model on May 6, 2020Millions of people have lost their jobs and more will still lose, the pandemic not only taking lives but badly aggravating the economic crisis. As times goes on many industries and commercial entities will go down, some permanently, and it will be no easy thing to revive the economy, at least we must try. But […]
Hoarding amounts to terrorism on May 3, 2020In May 2019 four people in Muzaffargarh were arrested for hoarding sugar and thus contributing to an artificial crisis; in one go-down had stocked 40,000 sugar bags, another berserk had hoarded 70,000 wheat bags; may thousands must have done the same without getting caught. The punishment for those two, was not reported, obviously it was […]
China, Pakistan and the future on May 1, 2020While the proportions of this debilitating process is not yet clear, the Covid-19 pandemic is causing a massive melt-down of global economy. The growth rates of some important western economies will go into the negative, for this quarter the US economy has shrunk by 4.8%, the biggest downtown since the 2008 recession. Such a global […]
Covid-19 Complicating Ramazan And Heat on April 24, 2020This year the holy month comes to us with double difficulties: The social distancing, curfews and closure of shops, though hopefully loosening in the near future, is already putting people into a difficult situation. With May and June the hottest months in Pakistan, people without adequate access to cooling or sufficient water could face health […]
The Waheed Kakar Model on April 22, 2020Abdul Waheed Khan was born into a Pashtun family of the Kakar tribe (which originally migrated from Zhob, Baluchistan) in the suburbs of Peshawar on 23 March 1937. Among the founding fathers of Pakistan, his uncle, Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, later went on to serve as the Governor of Punjab and as the President of […]