I don’t subscribe to the notions that our military establishment has learned its lessons and all of a sudden have become pro-democracy and have started abhorring the dictatorship, and will never stage any sort of coup ever in the future. That is so naive and so preposterous.
I am sure the apatite for ruling the country [...]
Picard: Come back! Make a difference!
Kirk: I take it the odds are against us and the situation’s grim.
Picard: You could say that.
Kirk: If Spock were here, he’d say that I was an irrational, illlogical human being for going on a mission like this… Sounds like fun!
-Star Trek: Generations
Sanity won in Islamabad this past [...]
Between the sea and the hard rock describes the condition of the premier Yousuf Raza Gilani right now. Armchair Bolsheviks and sofa warriors are jumping crazily as they are anticipating resignation of premier Gilani who wants to quit and imploring Zardari to give him the way out.
Zardari, Asif Ali who knows very well that he [...]
So our kingmakers are ready for yet another experiment in the land of the pure. General Kayani and Shuja Pasha haev also made up their minds; well almost. General Kayani is an ardent fan and follower of Professor Rafiq Akhtar of Gujjar Khan, who also happens to be the guru of Imran Khan and his [...]
I am not going to discuss the religious aspects of whether the veil is mandatory in Islam or not, but this post is more geared towards a painful and perhaps the root cause of our dilapidated and declining society.
Yes, to sideline an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis who are either Non-Muslims or the Pakistani Muslims who [...]
Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali was elected to the National Assembly from Kasur in 1994. In 2004, he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He served as the Foreign Minister of Pakistan in the National Government led by the PPP from 1993 to 1996. He has now joined Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) of Imran Khan.
Makhdoom [...]
Maybe Javed Hashimi doesn’t garner much votes and his electoral strength is weaker as compared to Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Multan area, but he is a symbolic figure of strength and courage and loyalty and as he is all set to depart from PMLN, PTI must be rejoicing as they have at last got a [...]
One thing which is quite refreshing is that nation-wide there is a consensus that NATO attack on Salala was a high-handedness of worst degree, and America has done an evil thing here and everybody in Pakistan is angry and very alarmed that US has even never apologized and Obama just showed his regret after eight [...]
We created Taliban and we made ourselves the front-running allies of the United States. We then focussed on fighting against the Taliban and we than locked horns with the United States. At one side, now Taliban are refusing any negotiations with us, and on the other side Americans refuse to provide us any soft corner.
The [...]
International relations are just like that. The Americans and their NATO allies will do what they believe is in their best interests without consulting us. It doesn’t necessarily means that they are our foe or friend, but just that the powerful and might works like that.
We need to understand that we aren’t weak either. We [...]
