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A Long walk back home

By A Khokar • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Features

Like Qaid e Azam M A Jinnah as founding father of Pakistan, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an Ottoman and Turkish army officer is the founding father of modern Turkey. As a revolutionary founder of Republic of Turkey he after defeating the allied forces gained remarkable successes in military campaigns to secure independence for Turkey. [...]



This Defiance May Get You Killed

By A Khokar • Dec 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In recent past numbers of Pakistani leaders were killed and we do see that certain political parties and their affiliates tend to keep them placed on very high pedestals as they all died in the best cause and services of Pakistan but sadly this may not be true. So let’s try to see them in [...]



Was OBL killed with the tacit Approval of Zardari?

By A Khokar • Dec 7th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Day by day; this news in the Media is becoming clearer that President, Asif Ali Zardari had the knowledge of raid on CIA compound of OBL at Abbotabad. From the operation timings point of view; it may be that he knew it vaguely but for sure President Asif Ali Zardari knew about the OBL fiasco [...]



Has Pakistan started making too loud noises?

By A Khokar • Oct 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

All the US proxies they carry a sell by date and Pakistan seems to have spent that time.
Pakistan is a peace loving democratic Islamic country and has taken US in friendship on nation to nation equality bases but for the US obnoxious and cannibalistic behavior and threatening to attack its sovereignty in recent days has [...]



Which country can do more for your peace?

By Muhammad Ali Sajjad • Sep 14th, 2011 • Category: Politics

I came across this advertisement in The Wall Street Journal to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Which country can do more for your peace?” the ad asks, sitting below a story on page A10 of the U.S. Journal’s Saturday/Sunday edition titled “When the Towers Came Down.”

“Since 2001 a nation of [...]



Shahbaz Sharif’s Asset Back to Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Jun 22nd, 2011 • Category: Politics

The only objection, which was hurled at Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif in the TV talkshows by the opponents is that their assets were outside the country, and they should bring them back.
Personally I don’t see anything bad about having assets abroad. Every politician of Pakistan and many many generals, judges, journalists, businessmen, even some [...]



Ali Baba and the 342 Thieves

By Dr. Haider Mehdi • May 12th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

“Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths,” wrote J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Noble Prize for Literature. This is a pretty accurate observation about understanding human psychology, intrinsic psyche and implicit behavior.

But, first let me change the title of this article a little bit in the [...]



When Taliban were Leaping over Margalla Hills

By A Khokar • May 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistanis, they carry a peculiar Psyche of their own— that anything said concerning Mosque; it is taken, as a serious attack on its sanctity and is very vehemently resented. But Lal masjid debacle of mid 2007 is known to be the turning point in the history and it took the entire society by surprise that [...]



Pakistan - A Lost Dream

By Zeeshan Khan • May 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After Zia-ul-Haq’s regime, the horror of a back lash from Islamic militancy always threatened the development of Pakistan as a liberal and dynamic state. This apprehension often dictated Pakistan’s foreign policy more than any other external force and the foreign policy of others towards Pakistan. Whether its politicians, liberals, human rights activists or factions of [...]



Will US let Pak Army be crowned for Victory in Waziristan?

By A Khokar • Nov 3rd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After incident of 911, US declared an all out war against terror in our region against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. There was the time when  war was seen drawing nearer to our western borders that Al Qaeda was allegedly using our FATA territory as their sanctuaries. Reportedly Al Qaeda was carrying out their subversive activities [...]