The Pakistani Spectator

Everyone is worried, apprehensive and pensive in the country. People are unsure about the future of the country and they are unsure about themselves. They are very confused and bewildered. To add to these woes, country is severely in the grip of rumors about bombings and suicide attacks before and on Eid.
After the horrendous attack [...]

We really don’t know who our enemy is and from whom we have to target and from whom we have to save ourselves. Who is using whom against whom? No sane person could support the likes of Fazlullah and Baitullah Mehsud, but from where in the hell they have sprouted up all of a sudden.
Right [...]

A Lecture on Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known political activist critical of U.S. foreign policy, traces modern-day American imperialism to its earliest roots, 25 years before the American Revolution. If it weren’t for British forces preventing [...]

The US and its allies succeeded in toppling Taliban regime in November 2001 and replacing it with a puppet regime, but the Taliban were neither militarily defeated nor eliminated from the system. But for effective encirclement of Afghanistan from all directions and massive air support provided by USA, the Northern Alliance could not have made [...]

Fiction. Euphoria is the story of a neglected child who grows up a wasted youth. An incident in the village makes him flee. On his journey he experiences life as it is and returns homes several years later entirely a different man.
‘PLUTTT..’ went the pebble in water as Baboo stared at [...]

The Bush administration risks expanding the failed war in Afghanistan into Pakistan, says a US lawmaker while commenting on the US decision to conduct raids into Pakistani territory.
The question of sending US ground troops inside Pakistan seems to have become an
election issue in the United States where voters are scheduled to elect a new president [...]

I feel hurt… I feel…injured…
If children…next door die…because of attack on my soil…in my COUNTRY…
by US marines…
AND my army….did not do anything..except condemning the attack…
My Army…my Air Force…My Navy…My own Defence force…
who take up more than 50% of the budget of my country…
If my people are dying…inside the borders…by another army..when innocent children, women & [...]

You may have read a big news entitled “Rat people forced to beg on Pakistan’s streets“. It was a real shocker to read and, tells of the worst, beyond imaginable, child labour industry. There’s a children’s rights issue you may wish to look into which concerns a very extreme and horrifying form of [...]