Black Day: Unparalleled in History on May 21, 2023Every democratic society provides its citizens with the right to associate with others and gather together for a common purpose. Protests, marches and demonstrations, counter-demonstrations, press conferences, and public and private meetings are a part of the democratic process, but this freedom of assembly certainly does not justify deliberately violent protests. Pakistan’s past is replete […]
Indian EAM’s Derisive Invective Against Pakistan on May 10, 2023At the culmination of the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers Conference held in Goa-India, from May 4-5, 2023, the Indian External Affairs Minister (IEAM), addressed a presser on May 5. A Vlog of the referenced presser was uploaded on Twitter on the same day by Asian News International (ANI), an Indian […]
Diatribe against Pakistan on April 21, 2023US Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin has raised concern about alleged human rights violations in Pakistan. Addressing a gathering of Pakistani Doctors in Michigan, Slotkin emphasized the difficult times Pakistan’s 220 million people who, she claims, are being “deprived of the basic rights of democracy.” She revealed the efforts to gather support from 100 Congressmen to write […]
Coronavirus Pandemic: almost the whole world stands besieged on 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 face on 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 stakeholders on 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-I on 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 insanity on 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 imbroglio on 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 […]