Now the ghairat brigade at TPS should be much happier as dollar is crossing the Rs. 90, economy is melting down like ice in Africa, and no one is ready to trade with us. To add insult to the injury, even China has refused to give us some soft loan.
We might get some dimes from [...]
“We would like to have escaped the conflict, but we know there is no point in it.”
from Hostages by Anne Perry, on the Irish conflict
Pakistan is in for its eventual long and difficult battle for survival, likely to be unfolding in the coming months at the hands of Obama’s America, and in no less measure, [...]
New year is here. World is making pledges about the future and people are quite hopeful to have a bright future in the new year and beyond. New sun of new year has brought merriment and promises for many across the globe, and yet we here in Pakistan are rocking with terrorism and every imaginable [...]
By closing our eyes, the devil would not disappear. One seriously doubts if some one has really given any serious thought to US President Barack Hussain Obama‘s last years statements. While delivering speech regarding new US strategy in War on Terrorism US President Obama said what should have opened the eyes of many “Al Qaida [...]
Oh farewell the streets of sorrow
and for all you streets of pain
I’ll not return to feel more sorrow
Nor to see more young men slain
- From a song of the Irish Republican Army
“…peaceful activism is doomed to fail in the face of state repression,” wrote Eric Randolph on “Gandhi’s legacy at stake” (Guardian News)
What India is [...]
The recently concluded Nuclear Security Summit has had the world attention riveted at Washington where 47 nations, represented by top echelon of leadership, gathered to craft an agreement that would keep the nuclear technology safe from the reach of terrorists. This was the largest assembly of world leaders hosted by an American President since the [...]
Is US heading towards an exit strategy in Afghanistan? The whole world is curious about this. It is a general perception that America is facing a defeat in Afghanistan. At domestic level the public support for Afghan war is waning sharply. Only 36 percent Democrats think the war is worth fighting in Afghanistan. The ratio [...]
An interesting policy development has taken place in the US under the Obama administration. As one recalls, Obama made much of nuclear disarmament and on his commitment for this goal. Well, it appears being in office alters many perspectives and President Obama’s worldview on many issues has altered qualitatively from the positions he espoused as [...]
President Barack Obama’s proclamation in Prague over a year ago, to embark upon a campaign to achieve worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons was quite refreshing; though it attracted wide scepticism. The world would, indeed, be a much safer place sans nuclear weapons. America has since then pursued the objective with vigour. Owing to the prevalent [...]
This time will be different for the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as he has now got massive powers with him and now he is the man who can make the decisions. Now he is the MAN, and that is known by the US leaders and this time they are waiting for a new Gilani [...]
