The Pakistani Spectator

Think for a moment about which countries cause the most global consternation. Afghanistan. Iran. Venezuela. North Korea. Pakistan. Perhaps rising China. But India? Surely not. In the popular imagination, the world’s largest democracy evokes Gandhi, Bollywood, and chicken tikka. In reality, however, it’s India that often gives global governance the biggest headache.
Of course, India gets [...]

For India, international recognition of its free and pluralistic society has always been hard to come by and while things are changing, they are clearly changing slowly. A study carried out by Washington-based Pew Research Centre, the highly respected US thinktank, said India is next only to Iraq when it comes to social hostility and [...]

Finally the internally displaced persons have started returning to their homes. Homes they were made to quit due to brutalities inflicted on their peaceful lives by the savage Taliban. Hats off to these IDPs who successfully confronted the hard ships they faced while being away from their homes. The scorching heat, the consequent ailments that [...]

Imperialism at its best.  Pakistan is being used as a pawn again. Politics is a dirty, dirty game. War is business.   People are being killed and their rights are being abused on both sides. States calls Pakistan its “strong ally” but the entire world knows that Pakistan is being coerced into taking sides with States. [...]

The pulling out of  the 142,000 American troops from Iraq in two phases by  2011 is a good omen of  President Obama Administration to reduce American troops deployment which not only have cost US huge military expenses but given it a look of empire.  One can hope that it lead to expulsion of troops from [...]

Well enough of the reconciliation in Balochistan. If that’s the way reconciliation is going to work then we are better off than that. The abduction of UN official John Solecki has made it clear that the smiling and flashing reconciliation bids of Asif Ali Zardari have failed miserably and there is nothing like common grounds [...]

During Operation searchlight in Bangladesh,1971 Archer Kent Blood, an American diplomat in Bangladesh sent a strongly worded telegram to Richard Nixon and Kissinger criticizing the Pakistani military for its involvement in the killing of the members of the AWAMI league.Surprisingly, the Americans who normally take up the issues of freedom and democracy very seriously recalled [...]

Bharat Varam who lives either in fool’s Paradise or in New Delhi (or perhaps they are the same thing) has developed a really cheap penchant for coming up with ludicrous suggestions to his government and military. He is pushing his country so hard towards total disintegration which is amazing given the India is already sliding [...]