Keep pumping the euphemistic balloon of our fictitious self-importance by the hollow words Strategically Placed, Strategically Important, Strategic Depth, Strategic Assets etc, and keep squeezing the life out of us.
In every era since our independence we have been shot down by this strategic arrow numerous times. We have been told in the past that we [...]
“You can do whatever to me, but don’t kis me on l1ps, that’s for my boyfriend.”
(Dialogue from a movie)
Oh, how lofty and tall and uptight we all felt after banning the NATO supplies. Relations between Pakistan and the United States sunk to an all-time low after air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along [...]
Many people in Pakistan at present are not aware of the fact that Khanate of Kalat (Balochistan) was invaded and forcibly annexed on March 27, 1948 (Seven and a half months after the creation of Pakistan). GOC Major General Mohammad Akbar Khan escorted the Khan of Kalat to Karachi and forced him to sign (at [...]
In its first phase US publishes a Human Rights Watch Report on Baluchistan
WASHINGTON: It is said that guilt and shame were the two dominant feelings that overwhelmed many Pakistanis at a US congressional hearing room on Wednesday 8th February 2012 as witnesses detailed human rights abuses in Baluchistan. Some were also troubled – while some [...]
There has never been the time that military in Pakistan ever came in power at its own for the heck of it. It was always there on the demand of public and the politicians of the time; when they felt that a group in power has crossed all the limits of their corruption and nepotism. [...]
Pakistan is in the grip of serious socio economic problem these days. Some of these problems may be ascertained as leader selection, landlord mafia, no civic minded citizenship, influx of refugees due to war in Afghanistan etc. Apart from them there are many problems due to ethnically diverse Pakistani society and migration of the literate [...]
Based on above, one may conclude here, blockade achieved none of the goals set by the establishment except closure of Samsi air base that was under closure anyway then. Blockade hit ordinary Pakistanis more than NATO troops and it reduces analysis of Ansar Abbasi such as “diaper scarcity” to crappy.
Let me tell you something which might surprise the politicians and die-hard fanatics in the Pakistan, but that would be so common sense to the common people and especially for those who are expatriates, and their families back home.
Pakistan and the United Kingdom have always been natural allies. Both nations have got a rich, sweet, [...]
During the PNA’s movement against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1977, an American diplomat’s phone call was intercepted in which he reportedly said: “The party is over”.
Notwithstanding the recent media hype about some imminent change ostensibly emanating from the memo and the NRO cases, does, after all not have the requisite sting to give immediate results. [...]
Today, when history has once again repeated itself by inflecting humiliating defeat to the foreign intruders in Afghanistan and border areas of Pakistan, there is less chance of western world fulfilling their promises. What west has gifted to Afghanistan and Pakistan is hundreds and thousands of dead bodies of innocent Muslims. Their sins were that [...]
