Revenant of the bear? on March 30, 2018The current mass expulsion of Russian diplomats by the United States (US) and its European allies is reminiscent of the cold war era’s espionage skirmishes and diplomatic rows. Last Monday the US and its European allies expelled 100 Russian diplomats from their respective countries while the US went a step further closing Russian consulate in […]
Ominous clouds on March 27, 2018Once again the tolling of bells resonates the past in a more sweeping but bizarrely sophisticated manner. Since the inception of this state, the people’s right to self-rule had been ravaged in the guise of self-appointed saviours that denied due dignity and prosperity to the hapless people struggling to live on this unfortunate piece of […]
PTM: Antithesis of fabrications on March 22, 2018The emergence of the Pashtun youth movement, which now stands as Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), has taken many by surprise and off guard in the same way as Pashtun were caught in the so called War on Terror. Intoxicated by brute force, blanket control over every aspect of political and social life and imbibed with […]
Pyrrhic victory on March 15, 2018With the election of Senate and its Chairman and Deputy Chairman, the battle between democratic and anti-democratic forces entered its crucial phase. I say this at the risk of rebuttal as some may already assume that democrats lost their fortress but the anti-democratic forces made this gain with a huge price by exhausting all options, […]
It is upon us on March 8, 2018Climate change is no longer an academic theoretical issue but is looking straight into our eyes with its snowballing impact on the planet inhabited by the human beings. Its emerging impact is global with different degree for different parts of the world but uniformly affects the lives of mankind. Instead of falling in the trap […]
Perception is reality on March 1, 2018What you perceive is reality and reality cannot be denied. What the Pakhtun perceive is reality for them and instead of denying reality it should be taken into consideration. Pakhtun’s relationship with the state and the federation is passing through a critical phase and requires a statesman like attention not a militarised response. After a […]
Orwellian era on February 23, 2018The valley of Swat once described as a sanctum of peace and tranquillity has turned into a garrison for people whose integrity is compromised frequently, if not on a daily basis, by the security personnel. “Who are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going? Show your identity!” How does one feel if […]
Burying mortality to germinate immortality on February 17, 2018Fighting against whom did not matter but fighting for what and how was the basic ethos of the indomitable Asma Jahangir’s philosophy and strategy of struggle. Perhaps, she internalised the strategy of do not look at the height of the peak which you want to scale, but just keep climbing. Just imagine, an 18-year-old girl […]
Post #PashtunLongMarch on February 15, 2018The #PashtunLongMarch started from D I Khan on January 26, 2018 by the Pakhtun youth which culminated into ten days long sit in in front of Islamabad press club. The march and sit in were ignited by the murder of young Naqeeb Mahsud in a fake police encounter in Karachi. The sit in was called […]
If fallen on deaf ears on February 8, 2018When nobody listens to your cries and cares about your pains and pangs, the natural corollary is either one should become louder or be silent and contemplate own way out. The Pakhtun protesting in Islamabad are facing the same dilemma. The nearly week-long Pakhtun sit in from different areas of the country in Islamabad are […]