Pakistan is at crossroads. Pakistan is in the midst of an identity epidemic caused by the explosion of disparate ideas flying wayward in our environment, an epidemic that has rendered million of people, who form the educated middle class to question vehemently as where they belong and what they are supposed to do, and billions [...]
After 14 days of in-camera proceedings, parliament came up with a 16-member parliamentary committee to evolve a consensus on reshaping the government’s policy on the war on terror, and in this committee the coalition partner of Pakistan People’s Party ANP has not joined in, which renders this exercise pretty much useless and sends wrong signals.
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The basic responsibility of the government is to save the lives of innocent people, while curbing those who violate the writ of the state. The policy adopted during the last few years, have helped the foreign actors to weaken the writ of the state and to take control of certain areas of country to successfully [...]
There is also a good news that the combination of the Lashkars and security forces has at least started to work now. The security forces, along with the volunteers of the tribal Lashkar, demolished two houses in Khar and Yusufabad, yesterday. The houses belonged to the local militant commanders, Iqbal and Liaquat Yusuf. The security [...]
The suicide bombers in Pakistan seem to have an upper edge. I don’t know why but they are being portrayed as some uncanny and supernatural force, which cannot be controlled by anyone, and only some invisible equally uncanny force will control them. We, the mere mortals are not up to the task, or at least [...]
The in-camera session has disappeared and the people are wondering about it’s objective and the outcome and the benefit in combating the terrorism. The message for the nation and for the terrorist is alike; Cluelessness.
Terrorists are clueless as what government is doing against them, and the nation is clueless as what government is doing for [...]
The in-camera session of the parliament was a pathetic show, but the debate which is following it is showing some welcome signs, as the even the key allies of the government came hard on the government for what they called was the continuation of the policy adopted by the previous regime of General (r) Pervez [...]
In Part 1 of this article, I talked about public support in Pakistan for our role in “war on terror” and gave reasons for which Pakistanis – in general – do not confirm Pakistan’s role in this war. Today, I will talk about our Political forces and role of our media and its support to [...]
It has been a national crisis in Pakistan that behind the scene government follows some other policies and in public they flaunt some other policies. This has remained with all the passing and the current government in Pakistan and there seems to be no change in the near future. That way nobody knows what’s [...]
Terrorism is an unusual phenomenon which can be defined by the responses of on lookers. It is evil in itself and emanates from the sense of fear generated by any sudden dreadful covert action under taken by some ruthless coward assailants by attacking the public prime targets to terrorise the society for their vested interests. [...]
