The Pakistani Spectator

A Candid Blog


Posts Tagged ‘UN’

Everyone Gets Clean Chit in Benazir Murder; Taliban Gets Blame

By Maria Sultan • Apr 16th, 2010 • Category: Politics

They would have given half of the dollars to me what they wasted on United Nations and I would have told them the same without going through the hassle of investigation and all that fuss.
They dug out the mountain and the production was a mouse, which surely smells.
Taliban killer her. Her security was not good [...]



Nuclear Security Summit

By Air Cmdre (r) Khalid Iqbal • Apr 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

These days nuclear matters are on the centre stage of international affairs. America’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ (NPR) and signing of ‘Nuclear Arms Treaty’ between USA and Russia had set the wheel in motion for the far more trickier event of ‘Nuclear Security Summit’ (NSS), where around forty seven states are deliberating the measures to strengthen [...]



The biggest pain in Asia isn’t the country you’d think

By Isha Khan • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Think for a moment about which countries cause the most global consternation. Afghanistan. Iran. Venezuela. North Korea. Pakistan. Perhaps rising China. But India? Surely not. In the popular imagination, the world’s largest democracy evokes Gandhi, Bollywood, and chicken tikka. In reality, however, it’s India that often gives global governance the biggest headache.
Of course, India gets [...]



On religious discrimination, India next only to Iraq

By Isha Khan • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Politics

For India, international recognition of its free and pluralistic society has always been hard to come by and while things are changing, they are clearly changing slowly. A study carried out by Washington-based Pew Research Centre, the highly respected US thinktank, said India is next only to Iraq when it comes to social hostility and [...]



IDPs Issue – Is The Opportunity Being Availed ?

By Guest Blogger • Jul 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Finally the internally displaced persons have started returning to their homes. Homes they were made to quit due to brutalities inflicted on their peaceful lives by the savage Taliban. Hats off to these IDPs who successfully confronted the hard ships they faced while being away from their homes. The scorching heat, the consequent ailments that [...]



US infringes Pakistani Sovereignty

By Arzoo Zaheer • Jul 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Imperialism at its best.  Pakistan is being used as a pawn again. Politics is a dirty, dirty game. War is business.   People are being killed and their rights are being abused on both sides. States calls Pakistan its “strong ally” but the entire world knows that Pakistan is being coerced into taking sides with States. [...]



Not like a Caesarian Empire

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Mar 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The pulling out of  the 142,000 American troops from Iraq in two phases by  2011 is a good omen of  President Obama Administration to reduce American troops deployment which not only have cost US huge military expenses but given it a look of empire.  One can hope that it lead to expulsion of troops from [...]



Dammit, Admit It : Balochistan is Angry

By Salman Mugsi • Feb 17th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Well enough of the reconciliation in Balochistan. If that’s the way reconciliation is going to work then we are better off than that. The abduction of UN official John Solecki has made it clear that the smiling and flashing reconciliation bids of Asif Ali Zardari have failed miserably and there is nothing like common grounds [...]



The 60 year Honeymoon ends with the arrival of Obama

By Guest Blogger • Feb 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics

During Operation searchlight in Bangladesh,1971 Archer Kent Blood, an American diplomat in Bangladesh sent a strongly worded telegram to Richard Nixon and Kissinger criticizing the Pakistani military for its involvement in the killing of the members of the AWAMI league.Surprisingly, the Americans who normally take up the issues of freedom and democracy very seriously recalled [...]



Unhi Ka Kam, Jin Kay Hoslay Hon Zyad (Urdu Blog)

By M Mirza • Feb 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)