Thanks to the pusillanimity shown by our leaders ever since the Mumbai acts of terrorism, Pakistan is being squeezed by so-called friends and foe alike. For India its own failures at Mumbai and the growing question mark over the death of the Anti-Terror Cell head, Hemant Karkare, leading to the possible role of Hindu extremists [...]
In the South of Peshawar, then to the road to Mohmand Agency, and the road to Khyber Agency, there is only Taliban Raj. The only road which leads to Peshawar from outside which is safe and clear is Islamabad-Peshawar road and all of the other roads to Peshawar are controlled by the Taliban just few [...]
“There is one reason I like Guddoo, the neighbour’s kid. He is so good at aiming when he hits, thanks to his playing Pithoo Garam”, said a friend. At a time when the world economy is facing a fierce decline, the Baydan Shoes Company is enjoying soaring sales for the hot favorite (flying) ‘Model 271’ [...]
As we witness the dying embers of George W. Bush’s presidency, the American people’s anger at their country’s top executive is no less than that of the Iraqi journalist who hurled shoes and abuses at the US president.
A recent PEW poll reveals how Americans describe Bush by different names — some of them a lot [...]
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Last Sunday, President Bush ducked two shoes hurled toward him in Baghdad. And the “shoe incident” shows how the results vindicated his stubbornness. A great deal of justified criticism can be leveled at the Bush administration that Iraq has turned so dire.
The shoe-thrower Muntadar al-Zaidi (who works for an Egypt-based media outfit) walks out in [...]
Something very very incompetent is going on the foreign front of Pakistan. Pakistan is fast becoming pariah and there is no sense of urgency in the leadership which is busy in bringing in Darbari governance in the country. India is fast weaving the net around the Pakistan and yet the rulers are unaware and oblivious [...]
One more funny business of India on behest and behalf would be treated as punishable. India should abstain and avoid the pleasure of securing the intent by simply placing the placebo of inadvertency.
The country which was founded for the fulfilling of golden objectives of justice, equality and freedom in the name of a religion which condemns all kind of discrimination (racial, ethnic, provincial, linguistic, sectarian, color, creed) , a religion which does not allow any kind of unjust action and which promotes the concept of universal brotherhood [...]
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.
That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
On 5th of December 2008, Richard A. Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia,
called on MQM chief Altaf Hussain at the MQM’s international secretariat in London and discussed with [...]
