The Pakistani Spectator

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Do not fear your enemies; the worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends, at worst they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent - Bruno Jasienski.
A political process and democracy is the means to [...]

We were blessed to be born free Muslims in a country which the founding fathers coined as Pakistan - the land of the pure. They dreamed of and created a land where they knew each dawn may be a challenge but every dusk would be a goal achieved; unfortunately what we have had since are [...]

Orwell said: “Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. David Cameron of royal blood, an Etonian and Prime Minister at the age of 43, has openly declared Britain is no more a “junior partner” of the United [...]

“Bear in mind the truth of the old saying that the end is not obvious at the beginning.”  Artabanus to Xerxes as quoted by Herodotus.
In 5B.C. King Xerxes of Persia, the most powerful nation on earth, held a grudge. The free Greek city of Athens had aided rebellions against Persian rule by Greek communities on [...]

In The Strategies of War, Robert Greene writes: Rommel once made a distinction between a gamble and a risk. Both cases involve an action with only a chance of success, a chance that is heightened by acting with boldness. The difference is that with a risk if you lose, you can recover. Your reputation will [...]

Professor Alexander Tytler is known to have said: “The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about two hundred years. During those years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty [...]

Give thy thoughts no tongue, or any unproportion’d thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. Shakespeare. Words communicate a message; convey a meaning, feelings and thoughts. It has been said that if the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Words have the power [...]

“The audience watched in awe the circus where harlequins faint and cry, and jokers await their cues as thieves in the dark. Mesmerized the cobra danced in the ashes, eyes glistening blankly, tongue darting like a ventriloquist’s puppet with no thought of its own. They clapped and danced merrily, pierrots of the centre stage. Secretly [...]

Pity the nation that raises not its voice, save when it walks in a funeral; boasts not except amongst its ruins and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler and whose art is the art [...]