Despite dire predictions about continuity as PM due to the unbecoming shooting off his mouth that has left even his coalition allies aghast, Yusuf Raza Gilani is gracing the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Summit 2012 at Davos, coincidentally the man who could well replace him in the future as the PM of Pakistan is…
The feudal mindset is conditioned to accept defeat militarily, never in sports and/or politics. The sportsmen’s spirit rhetoric that the British endlessly spout is just that, rhetoric. Casting aspersions of the nasty kind after being “Aj-mauled” and “Rah-mmed” was certainly not cricket. Two of Pakistan’s world-best young fast bowlers were successfully framed for “spot-fixing”, subsequent…
The morning of 7th of December was quite hazy, particularly at lower altitudes where the dust of Punjab plains mingled with the moist, cold air, giving the sky a murky appearance. It was just four days since the 1971 Indo-Pak War had broken out. While the PAF was conserving its air effort in the early…
In the wake of Pakistan’s devastating floods, Saudi Arabia organized a massive relief and rescue operation, can you expand on this? Pakistan being a brotherly and strategic country confronted lots of natural catastrophe in recent times. It created a colossal physical and human crisis. Previously, in the times of national crises, the Kingdom arranged an…
Indian Military Academy (IMA) was established at Dehra Dun and it started to train Indians as commissioned officers in 1932. In August 1947 when India and Pakistan emerged as independent nations, India inherited IMA while Pakistan had to start a new facility from scratch. Muslim cadets training at IMA shifted to Pakistan in October 1947….
IntroductionJews are conspiring to take over the world, a very common phrase frequently heard not only in Pakistan but almost all over the world especially USA and West. There is not just one version of this, there are many; and in their various forms, they’ve been around for centuries. There’s hardly been a moment in…
CommentsThe well known expert on Asian history, geography and politics JAMES CLAVELL in his foreword to the ART OF WAR (written by SUN TZU) has expounded as follows: “I truly believe that if our military and political leaders in recent times had studied the work of this genius, VIETNAM could not have happened as it…
IntroductionSOMALIA is one of the poorest countries of Africa. For centuries it had remained a colony of the Arabs and European Powers. It gained independence in 1960, but for decades has been in political turmoil and in the grip of petty chiefs, army commanders, nobles and hostile infiltrators from ETHOPIA and KENYA. Due to famine,…
The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral forum for disarmament diplomacy. It has evolved important treaties banning biological and chemical weapons as well as underground nuclear tests. CD hasn’t produced anything worthwhile since the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban treaty (CTBT), a pact now on hold because some key nations, including the US, have not…
Globalization means different things to different people. The term globalization has become part of our vocabulary over the last three decades but the socio-cultural and economic changes it connotes have been taking place from the time immemorial and had begun when the hunters and gatherers placed their feet on the planet earth. How do we…
