These days I am more likely to be curt and argumentative, have little time for anything and anybody outside the narrow yet broad, paradoxically, confines of what would become of my country. I am Muslim and I am Pakistani and I am proud of it, but there is little reason to celebrate this fact in [...]
After the settlement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary and the issue of the Punjab government, the real issues are now in the limelight and that is good for the Pakistan. The restive situation in the Balochistan and the surrender of the government in Swat and Bajaur to the Taliban are the real issues in [...]
The peace talks between Maulana Sufi Mohammad, Chief of the Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Maulana Fazlullah for the restoration of peace in Swat are one thing, while the looming doubts over the sudden peace efforts and the durability of it is another.
That is like forcing people to accept peace [...]
A tiny ray of light has emerged from the restive Swat area of Pakistan. People of Swat who are living in the camps in Mardan and in the suburbs of Swat in cruel cold with bare minimum things are hoping their hearts out to go back to their demolished homes and to rebuild thier lives. [...]
People in Mingora are aerial firing to mark their happiness and relief over the peace accord between the NWFP government and the local Taliban and the announcement of 10-day ceasefire from the Taliban. A sigh of relif, badly needed, has run through the whole Pakistan and after a long time a good news has been [...]
Though I am not at all fit for suggesting to our armed forces due to my lack of military knowledge and intellectual prowess in these matters, I would humbly suggest to the commander of the military operations in FATA and tribal regions to adopt a quick, calculated, focussed and targeted strategy to corner and eliminate [...]
Pakistan’s history is the mumbo jumbo of the blunders made by the military dictators and the civilians autocrats. Every region has it’s strategic importance and if you are on the map of earth then you are strategically important. There is nothing weird or conspirational about it. Pakistan’s obsession with becoming the pivot for the region [...]
Taliban who rose from the ashes of Afghan war now pose some very serious and alarming threat to the Pakistan. The Taliban gave up the peaceful struggle for enforcement of Shariah that was being waged earlier by Maulana Sufi Mohammad’s black-turbaned Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM) and resorted to the use of force to accomplish their [...]
