Professor Farakh A Khan

With all the turmoil in the Middle East, Pakistan has remained a silent spectator. The question to be asked is who controls our foreign policy. Most people would say it is the GHQ that directly or indirectly controls our foreign policy. The blithering civilian idiots cannot be trusted. The army top brass has its own […]

What is Pakistan’s foreign policy regarding the Middle East following one year of the Arab Spring? Firstly, we have to define what is the Middle East. Some people consider the Arabic-speaking people, including the countries of North Africa, as the Middle East. The Arabic-speaking people of North Africa claim to be the descendants of the […]

There has been foreign media and American administration uproar against Pakistan’s ISI for allegedly harbouring Osama in Abbottabad, the stronghold of the army. In Pakistan the response was varied. On the other hand the civilian government is caught in a vice between the mighty American ‘rage’, Pakistani public opinion, and the powerful politicised Pakistan Army. […]

A vast majority of doctors are in junior ranks, mostly serving in government-run hospitals. In the teaching hospitals, the junior doctors are selected only if they are doing their post-graduation and are called trainee doctors. They have been grossly underpaid and overworked. In the private sector, the pay and scales are almost similar but chances […]

The Arab world went through number of traumas since the Ottoman occupation, which was followed by British and French intervention in World War I. They carved out the Arab world on the map rather than ground realities. Kings were imposed all over the Arab world, supported by the west. The people suffered for decades, firstly […]