Pakistan is a country that is known for all the wrong reasons…..that WERE right to a great degree, not so any longer! But then Pakistan is also a paradox by itself, with a burgeoning, happening, educated populace with nowhere to deploy their talent, especially in geological and geographical lines of work that entail exploration and mining. This country, that broke …
Iran has done it again! It has stage managed the defeat of Islamic countries’ effort to patch together peace with powerful Israel nurtured by the United States of America, its sworn arch enemy. Personified by its slain general Qasem Suleimani’s cunning, Iran was seething on the skillet of the Arabs’ cosying up to the Israelis, saw its fortunes from war …
SO it’s happened, the dust has settled! The wait is over and all those holding their breath can exhale……..or wait! Is it that simple, given the PTI cricketer Imran Khan’s track record? Has the “has-been” prime minister relented or is this his way (as usual) of trying to wrest the prerogative of the “Chiefs choice” from the man who seemingly …
THE intellectually mature and “mood savvy” news media in Pakistan has historically made it a point NOT to tread on the superior courts’ toes, but in the same breath called these out whenever criticism was found necessary. And it will suffice to say that both sides of this coin will continue to shine! The news media has always had faith …
THE miserable failure by the government to secure any meaningful position in the Cantonment Board Elections the other day (the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz blowing the PTI out of the water) should be an eye opener for the “powers that be” (no, NOT the government) that their “chosen one” has overstayed his welcome! Furthermore, even the Pakistani diaspora abroad and expats …
It’s quite sad how some people (and others who somehow became interviewers, not journalists) couldn’t see this coming and think yet they’ve done a great stroke by misplacing their unbridled faith randomly in a motley group of individuals who catapulted from abject dormancy and obscurity to unfettered frivolity in a matter of months! Couldn’t this dreamy eyed band see what …
A nation of hypocrites? Though we won’t go into detail about it in this piece, let it suffice to say that we’ve been a nation of liars and cheats from before our country was born, a fact supported by Mr. Jinnah’s and the British pre and post Partition speeches and conversational inuendos. Parallel to this thought is the one that …
Well, the bombshell has finally dropped but is being looked at through various colored glasses. That is to say, the pro Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) conjure up wishful and idealistic notions of indemnity from various clauses of the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s decision, whereas the anti PML-N hawks say there’s no way former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party is …
THE New York Times ran an editorial yesterday that seemed to suggest that the United States Congress couldn’t be bothered with gun legislation that it “thought” would lead to a gun-free society, in the aftermath of the latest gun violence in Las Vegas in the state of Nevada. Point all you want but as they say in the US,……”Aint happenin'”! …
I can’t help recalling a book in a series on shikaar (hunting) by famous hunter of man-eating tigers Kenneth Anderson titled “The Tiger Roars“! Why? Well the elections in Pakistan of course, in the Punjab province’s capital Lahore in constituency NA-120 (National Assembly-120! And because the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)s election symbol was a tiger and this political party’s closest rival …
