In an overall analysis of us all as a Pakistani Nation, it is evident that do not have the moral courage to accept our mistakes and making sure we do not commit those in the future.
It gives me tremors and a haunting feeling when its been highlighted by our own media that “We are the [...]
Fear, disappointment, confusion, irresolution, and apathy is which mark our struggle agaisnt the terrorism crisis. Has it ended now? I fear not. Though our military establishment has certainly ceased to wallow in the indecision and they are after the terrorists with full might, rest of the factions are either acting like a sheep or they [...]
Ambrose Bierce, a prolific journalist and a short story writer of master pieces such as “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “The Devil’s Dictionary”. One of his short story with a big lesson goes; an old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in a bundle of sticks and asked the young [...]
Taxes and duties are a major source of income for any government to run its functions. A government, which fails to put economic progress on the right track by introducing certain policies to give boost to industrial, human resource and business sectors, becomes totally dependent on taxation.
After selling the Cash Cows the only option remains [...]
“The failed state”, “the rogue state”, “the epicenter of international terrorism” and “the most dangerous place in the world” are some of the epithets being used for the Pakistani state.
Suffering from deep malaise, the presently the Pakistani society is characterized by multiplicity of fissures. Its components – individuals and groups – are fast losing sense [...]
I opened my eyes in Dera Ismail Khan in August 1955, the town a Baloch Chieftain Soorab Khan raised in 1429, until graduation in 1976. Since then, no matter in which of the world, I have been regular visitor to the town to see my old dad in the old Haveli my grandfather built; sit [...]
The Buzzwords stinks. Time to come to basics now. Hassan Nisar rightly pointed out in his interview with Dr. Shahid Masood that all they knew are 400 to 500 sentences and if we snatch these sentences out of their mouth these so called politicians couldn’t speak anymore. Why not to guess the governments through Buzzwords? Like to begin with
24 year old Ali, a young school teacher was fast asleep, when suddenly he heard an explosion which rattled the windows of his room and then he heard shouting outside his home. His neighbor Shaukat was screaming, “The Taliban has arrived.” Everyone was running helter, skelter. No one knew what was going to happen next. [...]
Dennis Ross’ redeployment from the State Department to a more prominent position at the NSC in the White House raises two sets of interrelated questions. Why, and with what consequences? Competing answers to the former include the following. (1) Ross was relieved of his Iran policy coordinator brief so as to remove a possible obstacle [...]
It was primarily Baitullah Mehsud’s intransigence that the peace accord got busted in Malakand and FATA on numerous occassion between the Pakistani government and the militants or even with the tribes. It was due to the Baitullah Mehsud that terrorists started their retaliation in the towns and cities of the Pakistan. Baitullah has ordered his [...]
