Cops de grace on November 30, 2017Last week, another senior police officer Additional Inspector General (AIG) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ashraf Noor, was martyred that further stretched the list of unsung heroes and their sacrifices. The police force is facing a daunting situation and a dreaded faceless enemy against all odds with valour and matchless determination. Along with its basic functions to ward […]
Pushing into the impasse* on November 28, 2017All is well known, everything is obvious and all too familiar. The last four years witnessed so much, no longer needing contacts in the power corridors nor a sophisticated mind to analyse and draw political conclusion of the various plots of a familiar drama. No matter how it behaves, a lamb is always in the […]
The new political dynamics of KP on November 26, 2017Ascending to a prominent political role and sustaining it by an individual lacking hereditary privilege in a society based on predefined social roles and hierarchies with a complex power and cliental relationships cannot be an accident. It is an outcome of a combination of struggle, determination, intelligence and luck. Cronyism can allocate a position but […]
Prophecy of fallacies on November 23, 2017After seven decades, we could not decide which system of governance is suitable and workable for a country claimed to be created on the basis of an ideology. Currently, once again, the target is the parliamentary system held responsible for all the wrongs under the sun. However, no system can work when its detractors and […]
Embracing the past on November 15, 2017For seven decades we have been moving in a familiar circle. But this time with bizarre innovation to keep pace with the requirements, intricacies and sensitivities of the 21st century by jumping to the upper spiral of the circle that requires no declaration nomenclature and insignia. Despite all the wishful thinking, declaration and affirmation of […]
For whom the bells toll on November 8, 2017The political events and mechanisations have added a new ‘miscellaneous’ chapter to the hitherto treacherous political history of this land of the pure. So far, the salient feature of this inconclusive chapter is that every plot of the high political drama, initiated four years ago, failed to reach its anti climax according to the written […]
So what, I am alive! on November 2, 2017A passer by witnessed two children in a squabble where one was threatening the other with hitting him in a way his mother would be grateful. Drawn by this interesting interchange between the two children the passerby could not help but ask how it was possible for a mother to be grateful if her child […]
FATA: merger or new strategic dimension? on October 26, 2017Compounding the confusion is a trait of ill politics and when wrapped into sentimentality through demagogy it turns really ugly and misleading. Currently, the hapless people of FATA are subjected to such cacophony in the name of their rights and getting justice for them. Initially, the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) was devised for the North […]
The killer economy on October 18, 2017No doubt it was the stupid economy that shattered the Red Empire, the USSR, an entity that believed in expanding or expiring. Why were the Americans not ashamed for failing to predict the efficacy of that slow poisoning? But instead waged an expensive project known as the Afghan Jihad against the bear who was suffering […]
Wicked ironies on October 12, 2017Perhaps for a human being, the most pressing and wicked situation is when one cannot speak the whole truth and express one’s mind unequivocally according to one’s conscience without groping and searching for words to avoid the irk and wrath of the earthly gods, not for inappropriate standpoint but for venturing to reach the veracity […]