The meaninglessness of the term terrorism on April 20, 2016One of my classfellows, who happened to be in one of the prestigious universities of the US for his Master’s degree programme, told us the story of a class discussion on whether the Taliban upsurge was a people’s movement or not. His teacher, who had deliberated upon the definition of ‘a people’s movement’, like that […]
Stop it, for Gods sake on November 14, 2013In the debate, ‘Who is a shaheed (martyr) and who is not’, we have gone too far, much to the amusement of our enemy. What the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer said was unfortunate, and it really hurt the sentiments of people, the army and the polity. But most of all unfortunate is the JI’s opting to […]
Talks with terrorists is death of our ideology on October 20, 2013“All politics, everywhere, is a competition of narratives, and political tension in any polity is defined by it competing narratives. Not surprising, then, we are drowning in narratives. Actually, we are bleeding to death. Quite literally so. Our narratives — much as we ourselves — tend to not just compete, they compete violently.” This is […]
Drug trade goes on unchecked in Afghanistan on September 23, 2013If one goes by the American measurement, the saying goes they do not start a venture unless they are sure about its cost not going from their own kitty. The Afghan venture does not seemingly pay them as does Iraq’s but permitting poppy cultivation to the Afghan warlords and bigwigs, favouring the US intervention, was […]
Largest US arms aid to India and Israel on September 9, 2013The all-time high increase in US military aid to its strategic partners in Asia like India, Israel and the Philippines, and the massive hike in the defence budgets of these countries indicate a new push of the superpower’s designs in the Indian Ocean region, as well as part of the new world order ahead of […]
WOT: debate in the US on July 2, 2012If the claim that Islam is the fastest spreading religion in Europe and the US is true, one cannot deny it. However, one cannot pin too much hope on the fast growing number of converts because the fact that from nowhere these individuals are getting a centred-motivation or coordinated leadership makes us believe that such […]
Pakistans liberals on July 30, 2011What are we talking about when we say there are no liberals in Pakistan with whom we Indians can make common cause to further an agenda of peace and cooperation between the two countries? It is a point that needs some answering from us Indians since it was made by one of us in response […]