Elections 2013 are over and, as opined in the past, impacted by the US interests. As written in “The Election Conundrum”, the flurry of recent diplomacy and visits between London, Dubai, ...
By the time this article gets to the readers, early birds would have already gone to queue the polling stations. A lot will depend for whom they vote, how they exercise their right of choosing the ...
The speech of General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the Martyr’s Day rang familiar bells. Each phrase and word was well chosen to articulate a desired message of historical significance. The intent ...
The climax to the return of General (retd) Pervez Musharraf after a self-imposed exile of five years had been slowly building. He was returning to Pakistan with the make belief of having been a ...
The US occupation of Afghanistan was never a consequence of strategic logic. As described in these columns, it was a war that stemmed out of revenge and hate post 9/11. The impulse to pulverise the ...
The National and Provincial Assemblies have completed their tenures and caretakers have assumed controls to see through Pakistan till the next transition. Despite a week in office, the cabinets are ...
“Whatever will be, will beThe future's not ours, to seeQue Sera, Sera. What will be, will be.”Jay Livingston and Ray EvansPakistan’s electoral scene has complicated beyond ...
The Shakespearean Ides of March is historically related to patrimonial coups and cantankerous deceits. In Pakistan’s short and checkered history, March is perennially of political significance ...
It happened umpteenth times in the past five years in Punjab. The forces of communal hate, intolerance, greed, qabza and extortion in the name of religious honour were unleashed on a Christian ...
If all goes as planned, the caretakers will assume office and the challenges to handle a plethora of complicated, unresolved domestic and international issues seeking immediate ...
Of late, relations between India and Pakistan have soured, to say the least. Continuous tensions along the Line of Control, India’s efforts to realign the control positions at Haji Pir and the ...
Bishop Anthony Theodore Lobo, Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rawalpindi, passed away in the early hours of February 18, 2013. He fought his last battle of prolonged illness lasting ...
On February 12, 2013, North Korea carried out its third nuclear test. Nuclear watchdogs the world over were alerted by the three-day advance warning of testing a nuclear device of a smaller ...
By the time Pakistan’s present Parliament hangs up its gloves, the economy will be in a tailspin. Barring untoward incidents that may cause a delay in the forthcoming election schedules, the ...
In war colleges all over the world, war an instrument of policy is the most romanced, flirted and oft quoted concept of Carl Von Clausewitz. For the past century, this quotation has been misused to ...
By virtue of the portfolio of Defence Secretary for which he has been nominated by President Obama it is only natural for Chuck Hagel to worry that aid to Pakistan serves to protect US strategic ...
The recent International Republican Institute (IRI) survey has attracted the media with a singular focus on the popularity of Pakistan’s political parties. This is a fallacy because it ignores ...
Every plan that works to perfection must be relentlessly investigated. This one fell apart or still has twists and turns warrants comments.Like a true Robert Ludlum thriller that keeps the reader ...
As 2013 begins to close in on the expected changes within and outside Pakistan, various actors are repositioning themselves to move into the void for diverse interests. Some interests relate to their ...
For most photographers in Pakistan, it was not possible to capture the setting and rising suns of 2012-13. The dense fog made it impossible for the fiery sun to peep through the horizon neither in ...
Last year, I joined the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf rally at Karachi on Christmas Day. Despite criticism by many Christian organisations, I had braved and asked Christians to show up at the venue for a ...
Pakistan’s governance method during the past 10 years has acquired a propensity to walk the steep edge notwithstanding sharp precipices and blind curves. Because any system rots from the top, ...
As the election fever intensifies and political parties select winnable candidates for each constituency, the religious minorities of Pakistan despite the cosmetic ‘Joint Electorate’ will ...
“There isn’t to reason why?There’s but to do or die.”As the tenure of the present NRO sponsored regimes come to a close, political parties in Pakistan are gearing up for ...
The past week was a nightmare for wireless users in Pakistan. The blackout of cell phone communications in most parts of the country affected not only the GSM and CDMA based mobile and SMS ...
Recently, in a seminar organised by the National Christian Movement on ‘Revival and Unity: Our Mutual Responsibilities’, it was noticeable that the awareness of responsibilities to the ...
Analysing ‘Obama’s latest surge’ in 2009, I had related it to a tight balloon in hot air that may rapture before it reaches close to its objectives. Obama followed by Hilary Clinton ...
Pakistan is unfortunate amongst a few select countries to have never had a cohesive, integrated and permanent national policy. It is a sad but a true reflection of a state that has spent half its ...
President Asif Ali Zardari chose the twilight of his present incumbency to unequivocally and passionately diagnose the multiple ailments of the country he leads. He seemed frank, candid and at times ...
As our vitriolic media would have us believe, the targeted attempt on Malala Yousafzai is a watershed in Pakistan’s policy on the war on terror and a full-fledged counter- terrorism operation ...
Sunday, 19 May, 2013
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