We cannot name one country with Islamic laws that is a functioning democracy or a benchmark for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness except Turkey.
Muslim majority countries such as Pakistan have a history of thousands of years of customs and folklore shared with India that already plays havoc with the largely uneducated population in [...]
The visit of the Prime Minister of Turkey Tayyib Erdogan to Pakistan at the moment when the waves of terrorism has threatened us is of significant importance and honor for us. Being the head of the government of a nation-state with whom Pakistan has an endurable bilateralism with unlimited ties of friendship and cooperation is [...]
In Pakistan, you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t. Not always, but more often than not. There is massive power loadshedding across the country, factories and plants are closing down, manufacturing businesses and exports are down, unemployment and poverty is increasing, there are riots on the streets, trains and [...]
On the sidelines of other issues, voices are being heard from the under-developed areas of the provinces about the division of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan into more provinces. That demand is not absurd or preposterous. Countries like Turkey, England, even in India and many others have followed the same pattern and have solved many administrative [...]
The death of 52 people in a 16 wheel container on 4th April in the vicinity Hazarganji, 12 kilometers from Quetta was a pathetic scene of the unruliness and administrative incompetence the country is faced with. It was a heinous crime of human trafficking mafia which resulted in the cold blood murder of innocent people, [...]
One was still recovering from the absurdity of referring to the much-touted Obama policy on Pakistan as “new” when his speech was simply a worn-out, scratched record we in Pakistan are being made to hear ad nauseam, when the ground realities of terrorism in Pakistan struck once again. This time it was the terrifying attack [...]
As America is retreating( so called surge is basically asking for fig leaf before the exit as in Iraq) , there is tremendous amount of churning going on in Afghanistan. This was evident to everyone for sometime .When President Karzai desperately wanted Mullah Omar to accept his offer of safe passage was the first sign [...]
It was bravo of Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a Muslim country leader to have walked out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 29 January, in retaliation for not allowing him sufficiently by the moderator to answer to the speech of Israeli President Shimon Peres. [...]
he newly-appointed US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke is not new to the region. But he remained here three decades ago and one would think that he is out of touch of the issues related to the South Asia. But his recent press briefings, media statements and the articles in various journals [...]
