Policy approach on the Indo-Israeli nexus on January 26, 2018During his recent visit to India, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview given to an Indian magazine Times Now said: “We (Israel) are not enemies of Pakistan and Pakistan should not be our enemy either.” Termed as a high profile six day visit along with a team of 130 member delegation composed […]
The limits of tolerance on January 19, 2018Tolerance is a double edged sword because one can tolerate the views of the other side whereas at the same time can also exercise enormous patience and restraint to accept injustices, cruelty, corruption and nepotism. Pakistani society tends to show a great deal of tolerance and patience for things which are tantamount to appeasing evil […]
Walking a tightrope on January 12, 2018Never in the post-1971 history of Pakistan, has the country encountered such a grave crisis as today. It is not only the humiliating and threatening tweet of the US President Donald Trump blaming Pakistan of sponsoring acts of terror against the US forces in Afghanistan and serious domestic political schism which tends to put Pakistan […]
Pakistan as a deep state? on January 5, 2018When the Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) who is also the spokesman of the military took a position against the handling of Dawn Leaks by the PML (N) government and when he recently termed the statement of Federal Railway’s Minister as “irresponsible” in which he urged that the military high command should also […]
Leadership and development on December 29, 2017Leadership with vision, expertise, integrity and clarity can cause miracles by transforming a backward, volatile and under-developed country to a peaceful, prosperous and stable one. If the leadership is weak, corrupt, ignorant, arrogant and without prudence, the fate of that country is doomed. This is what one can learn from the annals of history. When […]
Fragility of democracy? on December 22, 2017The concerns expressed by the speaker of National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq about the fragility of democracy and the completion of term of national assembly needs to be seriously examined. Insecurity, intrigues and insanity seem to have become an integral part of Pakistan’s political culture because doubts and suspicions about the completion of term of assemblies […]
The Israelisation of Palestine on December 15, 2017When in November 1917 the Balfour declaration proclaimed by the then British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour in which he suggested a Jewish state in Palestine, the demographic landscape of Palestine which was at that time part of the Ottoman Empire heavily tilted in favour of Arab Muslims who accounted for around 90 percent of […]
The Afghan problem on December 7, 2017It is rightly said that the absence of peace and stability in Afghanistan negatively impacts on the regions of Central, West and South Asia. The recent attack at the agricultural training institute in Peshawar which killed 9 people and injured many is also blamed on the Afghans. The culture of drugs, weapons and sectarian violence […]
The price of appeasement on December 1, 2017In September 1938 when the then German Chancellor Adolf Hitler threatened to conquer Czechoslovakia under the pretext of annexing the German speaking population of Sudeten, the Prime Ministers of Britain and France Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier reached Munich to avert the outbreak of war. Munich crisis led to the famous ‘policy of appeasement’ particularly […]
Kashmiris are the real stakeholders on November 24, 2017On October 23 this year the Indian government appointed Dineshwar Sharma, who was Director Intelligence Bureau, as an interlocutor for Jammu & Kashmir. His appointment was immediately rejected by the All-Party Hurriyat Conference (IPHC), Farooq Abdullah of National Conference and Pakistan. In 2010 also, the Indian government had appointed a group of three interlocutors to […]