It is difficult to determine just how much ‘outrage’ the Kerry-Lugar Bill is generating outside the media, blathering politicians, the armed forces and the chattering classes generally. A canter through the TV channels would suggest that we teeter on the verge of revolution, such is the public dismay at the contents of a bill that [...]
Without any exception of military dictators or the elected representatives, everyone of our paladins in Islamabad depend upon the foreign aid. The common Pakistan works hard from dawn to dusk, and has never tasted the aid, and that is why no amount of aid offered or given by US or other donors has managed to [...]
Would you believe that the most popular leader of Pakistan, the head of the party which is leading opposition party in Pakistan, and the man who remained in exile for almost a decade, spent one month outside of the country, and didn’t even issue a single statement on the national issues?
Such is the aloof and [...]
After silence from the opposition, the corps commanders have come forward to voice the mass displeasure and alarm over the government’s rejoicing of Kerry-Lugar bill, which is more like an indictment of the Pakistan as a terrorist state and contains direction as how not to behave like one.
True enough that army has cried out as [...]
Better education, better health, drastic improvement in physical infrastructure will break the back of terrorism like nothing else. Give these people amenities of life from one hand and take the weapons from other hand. There are select few who will keep on terrorizing, but they will be dealt with the people of FATA themselves.
In Karachi, [...]
After President Obama made his policy statement on Afghanistan and Pakistan in March 2009 it was expected that in future the United States would focus more on the need of the people rather than the governments in pursuing US interests in the region and would come up with sustained strategic commitment with Pakistan.
However, no one [...]
GEO News is certainly having a field day in making yet another mayhem of an issue while putting every party in panic and confusion, while the nation wonders once again. After after 30 minutes, they telecast a bulletin saying that it’s Kerry-Lugar day in Pakistan and this issue is the most burning one and nothing [...]
It’s an old habit of mine; I don’t know it’s good or bad, that I always take at things recalling the historic events. Many times it happens that events are closely linked with the past or some times thy look alike “action replay”. I don’t know that was on TV or in some printed [...]
With regard to the Kerry-Lugar Bill, I have failed to find anything which runs counter to the national interest of the two countries. The conditions embodied in the said legislation, including the ones relating to democracy, non-proliferation, war on terror, civilian supremacy and monitoring facilities, do not militate against the interest of Pakistan.
America has traditionally [...]
