I read somewhere, in the fifth labor of Hercules, an arrogant king tries to demean the hero by hiring him to clean out the Augean stables in a day. The stables containing the largest herd of cattle in civilization, had never been cleaned. Hercules, with a little help from Athena, changes the path of two [...]
So Senator Kerry has come to do the usual doublespeak to the Pakistani people through its already confused leadership! Like the other US leaders before him, his understanding of Pakistan ran skin deep at best as he tried to justify the drones by declaring that terrorism existed in Pakistan before these attacks. Oh what a [...]
The analysts keeping a keen eye on our war striven region are of the opnion that since Pakistan previously known as the fortress of Islam in Muslim world is on its down turn and found crippled; the key to the peace and stability in the Middle East and Central Asia now hinges on Iran emerging as [...]
World is worried about Pakistan and in Pakistan the writ of the government is getting weaker as the days are passing by. We need to be very much worried about what is happening in our country, instead of hiding our heads in the sand. No miracle is going to appear to get us out of [...]
Pakistan seems like a Molotov cocktail waiting for a match. Its ruling elite bickers over politics, while out on the streets Taliban insurgents step up their suicide attacks. Its military plays the role of national conciliator even as it worries about Muslim revolutionaries in its own ranks. Meanwhile, the United States, Pakistan’s historic friend and [...]
Well Mr. Kerry, you certainly know how to speak with the people of Pakistan, but it is yet to be seen as do you really know how to actually act upon what you say. Kerry’s statements during his press conference with the Pakistan’s foxy Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi were very refreshing and very [...]
To gaze in one’s own navel: I thought I’d be listening to Obama’s Af-Pak speech for answers to four questions. But it seems to be same old war mongering rhetoric of US phoney war since waged against the vulnerable,defenceless with no respite in sight. So what about those answers?
1. Will Obama give an exit strategy, an [...]
My first political blog, here on Pakspectator, dealt with An American Perspective on the US Courts, in the US, in July, 2007. At the time, Pakistan had recently seen its Supreme Court judges removed from power, so my blog described the powers of the US Supreme Court, as well as limits to those powers from [...]
