The Pakistani Spectator

I still remember the dark days of General Ziaul Haq, when first time the car bomb blasts in busy markets of the Pakistan became a routine. At that the Afghan intelligence agency Khad was carrying out those attacks with the backing of the USSR.
In Pakistan, once again the car bomb blasts have become a norm. [...]

Currency today is not just a medium of exchange or store of value but it affects the fate of nations, oversees. Suppose you own few shares of a firm. Indeed you have ownership in that company, on papers, which will be diluted when the company decides to increase the number of shares. Same goes with [...]

Bradistan Calling
When Pakistan came into existence in 1947, Russia was known as the Godless Empire of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin. This inherent difference in ideologies resulted in tensions from the very start, but the refusal of the first prime minister of Pakistan to accept the cordial invitation of the [...]

When Islamic Republic of Pakistan came into existence in 1947, Russia was known as the Godless Empire of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under brutal dictator Joseph Stalin. This inherent difference in ideologies resulted in tensions from the very start, but the refusal of the first prime minister of Pakistan to accept the cordial invitation [...]

So far humanity has had absolutely no luck creating a society without the ultra privileged. The earliest human societies, though having very little in the way of an elite class still had clan leaders. These were the high at the time. Although this often changed if someone seized power from the current leader, the clan [...]

کس طرح امریکہ نے پاکستان کو اپنے مقاصد کے لیے استعمال کیا اور پھر اسے تنہا چھوڑ دیا، یہ ویڈیو کلپ دیکھنے سے تعلق رکھتا ہے، جس میں امریکی وزیر خارجہ ہیلری کلنٹن وہ کہانی بیان کر رہی ہیں جسے بہت سے تجزیہ نگار بیان کرتے ہیں مگر بہت سے پاکستانی اس پر یقین [...]

The much anticipated encounter between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit at Yakterinburg, Russia, turned out to be quite a starter and revealing of the Indian terms of endearment vis-à-vis Pakistan; as the foreign office establishments of the two [...]

Presently Pakistan is now a nation caught up between its Army and the Taliban, fighting a war— not of its own making. Its population lives in continuous fear of bombings and suicide attacks - the next one could be at the local mosque, an Internet cafe, or a roadside restaurant. Most Pakistanis are now resigned [...]

It was fall 1998, when North Korea tested a three stage missile, last stage of that crossed over Japan. Japan in response raised her concerns and US troops present in Japan might had told the authorities that ‘Don’t worry we are here to protect Japan.
Japanese the first ever nation till now which faced nuclear disasters [...]