Syed Mansoor Hussain

Sometimes you have this feeling that something is very wrong. And you cannot quite pinpoint what is wrong. It could be a multitude of things or just a couple of things happening around you that make you feel like that. That is how I felt when I woke up this morning. Perhaps it was Amjad […]

Politicians in the United States (US) keep asking: why do they hate us? The “they” is all the people in the rest of the world that are directly or indirectly responsible for terrorist activity directed against US “interests.” These politicians conveniently forget all the countries the US and its allies keep bombing into rubble. The […]

The primary elections in the United States (US) are over, and the two major parties have chosen their presidential candidates. The official nominations will occur during the party conventions, but barring any unforeseen events it will be Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump. After the loss in the California primary even Bernie Sanders has sort of […]

Reportedly, Prime Minister (PM) of Pakistan Mian Nawaz Sharif is recovering well from his open heart surgery. I hope and pray that he recovers completely and suffers no complications. Having said that, I have quite a few questions about the nature, the timing and the press coverage of the entire situation surrounding this operation. Now […]

It seems that a mullah with the same name as mine (Mansoor/Mansour) was killed by a United States (US) drone within Pakistan. The victim of the drone as was discovered was the leader of the Afghan Taliban. Presumably, the dead man comes out the worst in this situation but Pakistan might have to worry a […]

In a matter of a few days, anybody who is anybody will leave the land of the pure either for a cooler place, or else at least a place where air-conditioning is around everywhere, and where there is no load-shedding. Some of us who have no choice will hang around and complain about the heat […]

No, it is not going to happen. Mian Nawaz Sharif, prime minister (PM) of Pakistan is not going to resign. He is not going to resign for any reason presently known to mankind in general, and the people of Pakistan in particular. Even if he loses the next election he will probably have to be […]

A year ago most of us were convinced that Donald J Trump would never become the nominee of the Republican Party for president of the United States (US). This week besides offering a plethora of excuses for a major miscalculation, most of us are now insisting that Trump will never be elected as president of […]

Is it finally time to take a stance, have a stance, build a stance or make a stance on urgent questions pertaining to stances? Being a wishy-washy old-fashioned liberal I was always quite content to live a stance-less life. Moral relativity I was accused of. No spine, no guts, no nothing. There were people I […]

Long gone are the Ides of March. April is almost done and soon May, hot weather and mangoes will descend upon us, vying with each other for prominence. Load-shedding will become the major source of political discussion in Pakistan. Other than what is referred to as a ‘black swan’event, anything else of any importance or […]