Drums Of War Are Loud And Clear on January 8, 2020Apprehensions of war between Iran and America are becoming imminent. I was sent a video recording of a lecture by late DrIsrar much before his death. DrIsrar had warned the Muslim Ummah of inevitable holocaust around that would destroy the Arabs and the world would be drowned in a war like of which one had […]
Salman Taseer Shaheed Remembering a brave heart on January 5, 2020Wednesday January 5, 2011 was one of the darkest days of our times. It spotlighted our history with the ghastly assassination of one of its most bright, brilliant and secular leaders of an age when the country was hounded by vultures of bigotry. As he was known the then as Governor Province of Punjab Salman […]
Bhutto-an outstanding leader on January 5, 2020Often when people-especially the students- come to know of my humble association with Pakistan’s most outstanding political leader, I am asked the question as to what made me admire him. As a student of history, I do not hesitate to tell them that he was one of the few leaders who left an indelible footprint […]
Everything infructuous! on January 1, 2020Despite loud claims and promises by the Prime Minister Imran Khan that next year round would be a turning point for the good of the country– it is too good to be true since despite his utopian claims, the country has been moving on from one crisis to another-one deeper than the previous, making situation […]
Here to eternity on December 27, 2019Indeed, Benazir Bhutto would be remembered-from here to eternity— as the strongest woman to ever lead a male dominated Pakistan. In 1988 when she won her first populist election to seek prime minister’s office, there were variety of forces-overt and convert-opposing her. Till the last moment the then President Ishaq Khan resisted her claim. However, […]
Mother of all scandals pushed under! on November 13, 2019Once upon a time Pakistan had earned international recognition for successfully conducting polio eradication campaign painstakingly against heaviest of odds and challenges. The credit for its success was entirely due to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s personal commitment as manifested in the fact that she launched the anti-polio drive by holding her infant daughter in public […]
Moving towards a failing state? on October 29, 2019With my stars under the clouds following cardio-spasm and hospitalisation for ten days earlier this month, notwithstanding the nigh class Medicare under NHS, extensive tests etc-the crux of the advice given to me was to keep away from stress. My dearest Aseefa Bhutto’s message of prayers and good wishes, in her profound concern about my […]
The future of Pak-US ties on October 9, 2019While Pakistan has key role to play by virtue of its geo strategic location in the Afghan crisis and American total dependence on it to help Washington facilitate a settlement with the Taliban government, President Trump’s recent remarks urging for the expansion of Indo-US cooperation in security and other fields at Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
Tarzan is back! on October 3, 2019Under the horoscope Pakistan’s stars are such that it is always in the news—good, bad or ugly. Just when the state propelled euphoria had hardly hit the crescendo following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s much hyped triumphant visitation to the United Nations General Assembly and his great speech that out focussed Edmund Burke’s parliamentary rhetoric, Pakistan […]
Catch-22 dilemma: US, India & Pakistan on September 24, 2019‘Howdy Modi’ is in the United States indeed doing very well. Huge Indian Diaspora though shadowed by Kashmiri protestors against 49-day long lockdown following abrogation of Article 370 that had given the Occupied State a special status in the Indian Union, did their Prime Minister and the country proud by holding a welcome in Houston […]