“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
Albert Einstein
Leading management experts all over the world hypothesize and contend that when the top leadership of an organization faces a difficult, complex and serious problem, [...]
A wise adversary’s intrusiveness is better than a foolish friend’s counsel. (adapted from an old proverb)
Three fundamentally vital points in this proposal need to be clearly stated at the very outset: One: The COAS is the most important actor in the conceptualization, making and the management of the military’s operational and strategic organization. Hence, any [...]
“Two wrongs do not make a right.”
An old proverb
In my article “Re-inventing the Role” (The Nation, December 12, 2007), I advocated a new strategic-management doctrine for civil-military relations in a democratic Pakistan. At the time, it was hailed by many prominent progressive political personalities as the most important policy-orientated document on the subject. The overall [...]
“I am alive, and was dead… write therefore the things which thou hast seen.”
From a Holy Scripture
If PPP “Jialas” were asked if their party could change the blue sky to green, they would readily claim that their leadership is capable of it; in fact, it has already done the impossible by passing the Eighteenth Amendment [...]
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is disgusting to watch day-in and day-out the raging [...]
“The mad-man committed suicide, the hero offered himself up to martyrdom in the name of a cause, but both would die, and the embittered would spend many nights and days remarking on the absurdity and glory of both.”
From a Novelist of an International Bestseller
In retrospect, it is ironic as well as interesting to note that [...]
“They (become) unable to leave their world, where they (have) spent enormous reserves of energy constructing high walls in order to make reality what they (want) it to be… In order to avoid external attack, they (have) also deliberately limited internal growth.”
Paulo Coelho, 1998 novel
In today’s Pakistan of early 2012, the ruling party PPP, its [...]
“Nothing in this world happens by chance.”
-Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
The word “anatomy” is used here to mean a structure and a framework for a political management process and a political organization that can turn around an impoverished and externally dependent nation into an independent and self-reliant country. It is not a simple task [...]
“There is a difference between those who can see and those who cannot.”
–An Islamic tenant from the Qur’an.
Today’s most important question is: Has the people’s revolution arrived in Pakistan?
Indeed, Imran Khan’s promised “tsunami” hit the Karachi shores on Quaid-e-Azam’s birthday at Quaid’s ‘mizaar’ – a symbolic re-birth of Quaid’s dream. There [...]
A profound proverb in the Punjabi language on understanding human behavior is as follows: Kah kawah dey the prah prahwah dey.The meaning is quite simple: Folks of the same breed always stick together. But an in depth comprehension of this saying provides a wealth of wisdom on how people behave, why [...]
