Do you know Pakistan has also got a premier? Yes, we have a puppet in our lush Prime Minister House, which has become adept at issuing tasteless and bland statements and has developed a super-natural ability inaugurate different buildings, roads, hospitals, shows, and other things at short notice. That is not all. He has also [...]
Where people once roamed free, the markets were crowded, businesses thrived and life seemed untroubled – Islamabad may never be the same again, so believe the residents. Such are the security concerns that police, paramilitary Rangers, guns and pickets are now the significant features of a town that was known for its peace and quiet.
Gone [...]
Afghans are tough, religious, independent, armed and they have been facing attacks from their North for the last three thousands of years. Whereas the more than two or three years of American generations have been raised in fast food, jazz, casinos, free sex and nightlife and academics. Where Afghans knows what it takes to kill [...]
As soon as the Musharraf has gone and the new army leadership has started sending Pakistani forces and the intelligence agencies in the tribal agencies and Swat, all hell seems to break loose. Now our security forces are engaged in almost all the tribal agencies and in the Swat area, and the things are very [...]
The truth is that the ongoing war against terrorism in the tribal and some regions of Pakistan not solely belongs to Pakistan, rather’s, its the war of the world. Pakistan’s actions against al-Qaeda and the Taliban had brought greater security to the West, but at great cost to Pakistan, with thousands of Pakistanis killed and [...]
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck; Boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away”. This is how Shelley cut the presumptuous ruler down to size in his famous sonnet ‘Ozymandias’. He mocked the [...]
Even if your candidate didn’t win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do.
Ten months ago, when Obama won in Iowa, we had a glimpse of what was possible and what became real tonight. What I wrote then about one state is now true for the whole country:
Barack Obama’s impressive victory says a lot [...]
