A letter that never came on April 2, 2022Bluff has been the most potent trick in the arsenal of Imran Khan’s strategy ever since he played cricket. He mastered it, and used it unabashedly. At times it worked, sometimes he thought it had worked. Ironically, he carried it along in the arena of politics too, more marinated in lies and deception, hardly realizing […]
Coronavirus, conspiracies and carelessness on April 13, 2020Conspiracies theories, like other theories, are attempts to understand a phenomenon or a happening. Like rumours, conspiracy theories take birth in times of uncertainty and upheaval. When governments and people-who-matter do not give plausible explanations, theorists spring into action to explain the reasons as per their knowledge or even motives. Established and credible quarters tend […]
Child security-hopes and prospects in 2020 on January 25, 2020Children are the most vulnerable segment of society in Pakistan. During the last two years there have been umpteen cases of extreme neglect, abduction and abuses, especially in the province of Punjab. Seven-year-old Zainab’s rape and murder had sparked outrage and protests across the country after she was found dead on a trash dump in […]
Suicide bombing spree in Balochistan on July 25, 2017Balochistan is home to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)since the corridor’s flagship project Gwadar Port is based here. Ever since Gwadar started taking concrete shape, foreign powers, big and small, friendly and unfriendly, have turned their guns towards it. Terrorism is the tool most readily available to them to hinder the project. Initially, the […]
Suicide bombing spree in Balochistan on July 25, 2017Balochistan is home to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)since the corridor’s flagship project Gwadar Port is based here. Ever since Gwadar started taking concrete shape, foreign powers, big and small, friendly and unfriendly, have turned their guns towards it. Terrorism is the tool most readily available to them to hinder the project. Initially, the […]
Sour security scenario: internal and external threats on July 3, 2017In a single day, about sixty-two persons were killed and more than hundred were wounded in terrorist incidents across Pakistan. Heartless terrorists carried out these well orchestrated attacks, mostly against soft targets, in Quetta, Parachinar, and Karachi. The vehicle based IED (VBIED) attack in Quetta was claimed by both the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a splinter group […]