Narendra Modi has scored an expected, yet dramatic, election victory. Modi is the first non-Congress prime minister in India to return to power after a full five-year term. It was a well participated election; about 67 percent of more than 900 million eligible voters cast their ballots. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contested the election on…
The evening of May 23 the ‘Breaking News’ of a private television repeatedly aired audio clips as well as footage of video recordings of a man allegedly indulging in unbecoming interaction with a woman. The audio/video on mainstream media quickly went viral on the social media. “News One” identified the male voice as that of…
The Indian navy scrambled its submarine for surveillance, and seemingly, deterrence missions during the Indo-Pak crises that ensued Pulwama attacks. Their principal aim was to target Pakistan Maritime interests while denying Pakistan Navy the liberty of action. The bid failed as India was unable to maintain forward offensive posture. What would have been the Indian…
The major reason for the dismal economic situation of the country is corruption and the feudal-type nepotism that sustained it over decades has infested the state and its institutions. Making money from kickbacks by bureaucrats and politicians who are in a position of power, selling jobs and stealing public money from welfare and development projects…
On 8 May 10 people were killed, including five elite police force personnel outside the famous 11th century Sufi shrine of Data Darbar in Lahore while many others were injured. A young boy blew himself up in the vicinity of the shrine. Right after the blast several foreign media outlets started commenting on the attack…
The using of all kinds of technologies and media gimmicks to diminish a person or a country has been around for quite a while. Fake news telling plain lies or repeating unchecked or un-investigated news from other sources is one way to destabilise, frighten or otherwise put an individual and/ or a country on tenterhooks….
A weak economy, growing poverty, educational crises and many more has never stopped us from creating additional problems. The recurring one recently being when the month of Ramadan would start and accordingly when Eid would bring an end to that holy month of fasting. What if the moon is not sighted everywhere at the same…
“Spying is a like a game of chess. Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win preferably a knight rather than a king or queen”. John Rhys-Davies Pakistan army spokesperson announced on 30 May 2019 that two army officers and one civilian were tried by a Field…
Context As the direct peace talks between the US and Afghan Taliban move along the sixth round of talks took place in Doha. Meanwhile questions are being raised regarding the prospects of success. Any negotiations have to con sider the positions of various stakeholders. More importantly, first the stakeholders have to agree to talk and then…
SINCE the signing of Pakistan’s IMF deal, the opposition parties, along with some motivated media houses, have gone berserk about how miserable the economy of Pakistan is supposed to be and how the government has sold the country out to the IMF. Among those who gathered for Iftari in Islamabad the other day were those…
