The Pakistani Spectator

I will start with the line that one of my very old teachers & friend messaged me this morning…
“Sixty-one years ago a nation was searching for a piece of land, today THAT same piece of land is searching for its nation…”
Is this really where we are…. after these past sixty years?
Or is it what is […]

It is all what I have,
My soul and my existence
Imprinted and embedded
In these lines, drawn and felt
In this star and crescent
Long are those trails and hidden
Stories of my ancestors
Some in me and some in graves
In its lap, intoxicated in its slumber
My old remains, my ancestors
Years it takes to build this oasis
Which we all call […]

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit […]

In view of the proposed Impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf being moved in the Parliament; he is being advised by the wise political pundits to resign. Since he is now a democratically elected President and no more a sole Executive power in Pakistan, the way he used to be; the man ought to get used […]

On the 61 Independence Day,  as the people of Pakistan celebrate and rejoice, the bounty that became home to the genertion that was witness to the Dawn of  14th August 1947 and  since. May be, the former knew what was the vision of Father of the Nation Mr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, do we?
While Celebrating let’s […]

August 14 2008, Pakistan is celebrating its 62nd Independence Day. Pakistan was born with great hopes and promises; aspirations and sacrifices. The idea behind Pakistan was to provide a homeland to Muslims free from cultural and political influence of Hindus. But nevertheless equal rights for minorities were in the idea of Pakistan, a state where […]

It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer,
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It […]

The proud people of Pakistan has a deep affection and regard for democracy. The nexus of Pakistanis with democracy is two-way and recurrent despotic regimes have smeared lots of mud on this pretty nexus.
Sixty years ago, our beloved Quaid-e-Azam freed us from the tentacles of British and saved us from the high-handedness of India, and […]