Coronavirus Pandemic: almost the whole world stands besiegedon March 21, 2020Nerve wrecking iIndeed! The virulent ‘Coronavirus COVID-19’ disease is affecting over a 162 countries and territories around the world, and one international conveyance (the Diamond Princess Cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan). It wouldn’t be inappropriate to say that the perilous coronavirus pandemic has sent shiver down the spines of millions of people across the […]
The IMF unveils its real faceon February 28, 2020In my article titled “IMF assistance: more detrimental than beneficial for Pakistan” published in some eminent English dailies of the country, in October 2019, I had cautioned the incumbent government not to get hooked on to International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance to meet its dire financial needs. The reasons I had then quoted for […]
Restoration of student unions: a formidable challenge for the stakeholderson December 11, 2019Some leadingdailies of thecountry recently reported that the incumbent government is seriously contemplating to restore the student unions in educational institutions across the country. It must be known that student unions were proscribed about three and a half decades ago. The reason for doing so was obviously the highly undesirable role that the student unions […]
Gargantuan defense outlay exposes India’s hegemonic ambitions (Part-II)on November 7, 2019According to the latest Indian Human Development Survey, released on May 11, 2019, nearly half (47.9 per cent) the Indian households that have more than five children are severely deprived of shelter, water, sanitation, health and education as compared to 7.8 per cent of poor families without children. According to the World Bank up to […]
Gargantuan defense outlay exposes India’s hegemonic ambitions Part-Ion November 6, 2019It has been reported in the Indian and Pakistan print media lately that India has firmed up its plan to massively augment its military capability over the next 5-7 years. According to information emanating from an official document and Indian military sources, published in leading Indian Daily ‘India Today’ on September 11 and some leading […]
India transcends all bounds of insanityon October 23, 2019As if all the insanity that the incumbent Indian government, headed by Premier Narendra Modi, has been demonstrating for the past three months was not enough. To further accentuate its insanity, India has now gotten down to audaciously threatening Pakistan that it would divert the western rivers’ flow to Pakistan. The threat, one must know, […]
Trump-Modi’s multibillion-dollar embrace and the Kashmir imbroglioon October 12, 2019Wow, what an embrace it was! None could deny that that profoundly warm embrace between the heads of two major business partners and strategic allies, the US and India, and their strongly clasped hands on the mammoth stage set up at the rally of around 50,000 people, held at the NRG Stadium, Houston on September […]
World conscience in deep slumber while Kashmir bleedson September 12, 2019It has been more than a month since the occupied Kashmir has been under siege of the merciless Indian forces. The persisting extremely volatile situation in the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) where men, women and children are being brazenly maimed and obliterated, where unparalleled human rights abuses are being blatantly committed by the day, and where […]
Despicable Kashmir debacle: why the lukewarm world response?on August 28, 2019Pakistan took the burning Kashmir issue to the UN Security Council (UNSC). That the UNSC decided to take up the Kashmir conflict for debate in a closed-door session on Friday, August 16, 2019, for the first time in the last 50 years, was very encouraging. It wouldn’t be inappropriate to say it was a significant […]
India’s belligerence in IoKon August 16, 2019The ever-belligerent India’s hostility in the Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) has surpassed all bounds of civility. India, as known to the whole world, has shamelessly geared up its acts of brutality in the IoK, particularly after US President Donald Trump in his one-on-one meet with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on July 22, 2019 disclosed that […]