Hazara killing fields on April 17, 2019Christchurch mosques killing in New Zealand stunned the entire world’s conscience to shame. Instantly its prime minister-a brave woman with a mother’s heart-rose to the apogee of human greatness when she rushed to be on the scene of crime and be with aggrieved families to share their grief and help them recover. For days and […]
More of the same, is it? on April 10, 2019General Elections in India are around the corner under the full drum beats. Pakistan has had its polls in July last and the promises to the people for a piece of moon, rivers of milk and honey seem to rolling in a space craft with destination unknown. Notwithstanding the ongoing sabre-rattling more of media ranting […]
Bhutto’s defence doctrine on April 3, 2019It is said that when one can’t make history, one would prefer to rewrite it. That’s what we have been witnessing ever since the advent of Pakistan. Starting from the day when a Babu attempted to superimpose Quaid’s August 11, 1947 speech by censoring that portion that laid bare his vision of a democratic and […]
FATF or Sword of Damocles on March 27, 2019December 16, 2014 was one of the darkest days in our history secondly only to fall of Dhaka. On this day, 150 including school going children of Army Public School were mowed down by terrorists in cold blood. Though draconian action was promised, and punishment guaranteed through a National Action Plan. It has been three […]
Book review: ‘The Changing Global Geo-Political and Geo-strategic Dynamics: Challenges for Pakistan: Past and Present’ By Ambassador M. Alam Brohi on March 26, 2019Ambassador M. Alam Brohi having played his innings in the world of diplomacy to the brim and having successfully authored his first book -A Voice in the Wilderness: Memoirs and Reflections – has surprised me with his second so instantly. Writing ‘The Changing Global Geo-Political and Geo-strategic Dynamic: Challenges for Pakistan: Past and Present’, immediately […]
Whither Pakistan? on March 22, 2019Pakistan had just come into being in August 1947, its founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had firmly believed that the largest Muslim state had come to stay and that no power on earth would be able to destroy it. However, according to him, if there were enemies within, no enemy would need to do us […]
Death threats to Bilawal on March 20, 2019Sheikh Rasheed, known since his advent in politics as an HMV of the deep state, continues to be a bull in the china shop. He is known for various services extended to the powers that be whenever they needed to demolish any politician who the establishment dreaded as a threat. Since his services are varied […]
Mind your language, please! on March 13, 2019Thank goodness for Whatsapp academics, they never let bad taste left in the mouth die. Especially when it is a manifestation of verbal diarrhoea like situation among politicians suffering from chronic foot in the mouth disease. In the days of yore, when Parliaments were considered a cradle for the training of good politicians and the […]
One swallow does not a summer make on March 6, 2019Freezing winter has ended with the Ides of March threatening eventualities not as grim as many doomsayers dominating the media in India had been predicting following Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi grappling with the possibility of an electoral defeat in the forthcoming elections. His gamble to use the Pulwama terrorist act under the cover of […]
Shun chauvinism on March 2, 2019I have always been sceptical about the next war in the subcontinent. Since the Simla agreement of 1972, we have seen various stand-offs between India and Pakistan with darkening clouds hovering over the horizon. Ever since both the nations acquired nuclear weapons the prognosis of war became almost fatal. When Pakistan’s first elected Prime Minister […]