Lately there have been ripples through my social circle over a recent blog post I wrote, also RSS-fed at my facebook profile. The post in question was about Kerry-Lugar Bill and the reaction that ensued primarily consisted upon telling me how ‘unpatriotic‘ I was and more interestingly, how dispassionately I rejected army’s role as the [...]
Recently, it’s been alleged that a private security contractor company, Blackwater, is to deploy some thousand of it’s troops at Pakistan. While many rendered that a conspiracy theory and both Pakistani government and the US embassy denied that, that’s precisely how the lending of Pakistani air bases to US planes was dealt with, which did [...]
In a time when there’s been a lot of talk over Mr. Musharraf’s trial and PML N has been pursuing the case determinedly, suddenly a ghost from the past comes on the media and spills few so-called secrets which entirely turns the tide. While at one side it acquits, in an immediate sense, Mr. Musharraf [...]
The power supply continues to become a rare luxury by each passing day as summers look to their zenith. With an ever-increasing number of off-hours, the trend seems to be tipping the strenuous end, creating a hell for the masses in the 50-somethings centigrade. While at one side, loadshedding occurs at the pretext of excessive [...]
After quite some discussion with a lot of friends in real life and online, I think I ought to post a list as to what exactly are the problems we face today, as a nation. And what could possibly be their solutions.
Problems:
Illiteracy
Poverty
Overt religiosity
Religious extremism
Militancy
Self-denial and hypocrisy (the refusal to identify our own wrongs and [...]
Civilized nations have few distinct traits which manifestly express the reason for their meriting the position of being one – and a trait that’s common to them all is a dignified manner to display anger. Not only does the state of anger express the psyche of the popular mob of a country but it also [...]
Is the notion of a human mind being entirely replaced with an artificially intelligent machine a scientific reality or just science fiction?
With each passing day, our lives are becoming more and more digitalised — from personal computers to communication of any sort, the 0s and 1s are now more prevalent in our lives than we [...]
“It’s the world’s final resting-place, a cosmic anchor, quiet haven, earth’s navel, it’s the three fishes on which the world rests, quintescence of pancakes and juicy meat pies, the evening samovar, soft sighs, fur-lined coats and warm, cozy stoves for sleeping! Why, it’s practically as good as being dead, only you’re alive and you can [...]
Whether or not India makes a valid possibility for the one responsible for the recent terrorist attack at Lahore may be easier to decided now that a Report by CID forwarded to Syed Kamal Shah, interior secretary, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Javed Mehmud, Chief Secretary, Punjab, Lahore, Dr Syed Tauqir Shah, Secretary to Chief Minister, [...]
‘Crime and Punishment’ by Fyodor Dostoyevsky would most appropriately be categorized under criminology and psychology. In one continuous narration of a person’s motives and actions before and after a crime and a very astute analysis of them, Dostoyevsky creates a very intelligent piece of writing which he penned down in the second-half of nineteenth century. [...]
