I wish Shaheed Bhutto were alive today on January 5, 2021Had Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto been alive today, poor people of Pakistan would not have been so pathetically treated by Imran Khan government for want of co-vid vaccine, utter lack of proper medicare, running from pillar to post for sustainable oxygen ventilators and pep. It is indeed, an irony that the world scientists are speeding […]
LIKE OF HIM ARE NOT BORN EVERY DAY! on January 4, 2021It was a bright sunny day but otherwise a dismal hour on January 4, 2011 when we were shocked by the most tragic news of cold bloodied, broad-day light murder of otherwise popular Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer. It was, indeed, one of the darkest days of our times when one of our brightest political […]
Benazir Bhutto, the iron lady (PART II) on December 29, 2020Dictators and their mouthpieces—being guilty of their crime of committing treason—never let go any opportunity to declare her a security risk. I remember that when Pressler Amendment (1985) was on the anvil by the Congress to impose economic sanctions on Pakistan and to stop aid under General Ziaul Haq, it was Benazir Bhutto in exile […]
Benazir Bhutto, the iron lady (PART I) on December 25, 2020My association with Bibi (Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto) covered a span of over three decades until her death. My affinity with her father Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from my student days as a fan until I became a journalist—made it easier for me to get very close to Bibi after I was introduced to her by […]
Auspicious and inauspicious—part II on December 10, 2020Since the critical matters of the state have become extremely grave by inapt handling by various rulers especially the present team of Prime Minister Imran Khan that it is now much too serious a situation to be left in the hands of the generals or their toady civilian politicians. Not that, we should initiate a […]
Auspicious and inauspicious! (part I) on December 9, 2020Month of December is both auspicious and inauspicious. In this month we have had many developments of far-reaching consequences. Generally speaking, it is very auspicious for humanity. It was on Christmas Day Holy Jesus Christ was born as a messenger of God to deliver the world of all its evils. On this day until than […]
Land mark event of November 1, 1988 (Part II) on November 19, 2020She agreed with me that since GIK, General Aslam Beg seemed to have made up their mind to get rid of her she should talk to them to wrap up things and forget about making a speech on August 14. She agreed with me. Next day we left Karachi for Islamabad. Later in the evening […]
LAND MARK EVENT OF NOVEMBER 1, 1988 ( Part I) on November 18, 2020Movember 16 Elections in 1988 was a land mark event in the politics of Pakistan especially related to the future of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and democracy. Mohtarma had no doubt won the elections after long struggle, intrigues and conspiracies of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, his coterie of generals, bureaucrats and ISI who were hell bent […]
Indeed, a democratic achievement on November 11, 2020Pakistan has always needed strong institutions even if we had strong men in power. The way things are developing leaving two of the strongest men in power is a manifestation of their helplessness. No doubt analysts who think themselves to be all knowing about national issues do not actually know much about them. Indeed, democracy […]
Declassified history: Liaquat & Dr Mossadegh on October 12, 2020With the passage of time history becomes more re-vealing as previous records lose prohibition of time limitation for public exposure. American classified cuments after their declassification have revealed that Liaquat Ali Khan refused to offer Pakistan as a base for the Anglo-American operations for toppling the government of Prime Minister Dr Mossadegh who was not […]