Pakistan has always been a player at the global stage since its emergence as an independent country in 1947. Unfortunately after the demise of founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah, his colleagues quickly tried to grab their booty considering this country as a reward for the combined struggle of residents and migrants. Muslim League wanted the [...]
Pakistan cricket and Politics have always remained in a familiar situation filled by intrigues, approvals,denials,removals and reinstatements. I had stopped thinking about Pakistan cricket’s politics after the exit of Yunus Khan but recent rumours,murmurs and denials coming from Hobart have once again forced me to write on the issue.
There is no denying fact that Yunus [...]
The awaited NRO is defeated and buried but unearthed the same old faces who would want to come back for a kill yet sometime again, if we falter. We have been for the last 62 years. The glimmer of hope that each one of us awaited finally came. Reaching there seemed easy but for how [...]
“Democracy is a real menace especially for the society where ignorance supervenes; and hazards due to this selection are always fearsome as we see in countries like Pakistan”
“Something’s Amiss” as the famous detective Sherlock Holmes would have retorted would he have been presented the case of the peaceful community of lawyers turning into brutes.
The events that have happened over the past few weeks need no explanation. Every child in this beloved country of ours has witnessed the lawyers getting out of hand [...]
The Sikh religion is based on three important pillar The Guru (Teacher), The Garanth(Holy Book) and the Khalsa (Brotherhood of the Pure).It all seems so familiar because of similarity with the religion of Islam. Nowadays one cannot objectively analyse Islam, without provoking Fatwa of One kind or the other. The debate, discussion and Ijtehad (innovation [...]
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The federal cabinet decided on Wednesday to do away with the condition of bachelor’s degree for candidates for the Senate and the national and provincial assemblies, in line with the Supreme Court judgment of April 21 last year. Briefing reporters after a cabinet meeting, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said Pakistan was [...]
In Part 1 of this pair of blogs, I discussed the similarities between human cancers and certain dangerous, violent national movements. I discussed what made a movement cancerous, and I invited comments in particular regarding whether Pakistanis believe that the Pakistani Taliban meets my definition of a cancerous national movement, with the frightening danger to [...]
As far as I know, I do not have cancer, but over two years ago, cancer struck to the heart of my family, and it profoundly affects our daily lives, today. I don’t want this blog to be about me, however, and I must protect the privacy of others, so I won’t go into personal [...]
Nowadays,the media is all about the news .every hour and every 15 minutes viewers are flooded with breaking news even though the news may not be that important.Several of our leading news channels….in their competitive zeal..bombard users with little tidbits of news….whether tragic or happy.This has both positive and negative effects.With the unregulated media environment(yes [...]
