One of the greatest blunders of recent Pakistani history, the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), universally believed to be the initiative of Gen Musharraf, was actually the brainchild (and drafted by) his most trusted military aide. This man’s brother was already doing business in Dubai with Zardari’s half-brother Muzaffar Tappi. This Ordinance extended blank amnesty to…

The corruption of the political process making democracy a farce is not new to Pakistan, or for that matter confined to Pakistan alone, Asif Zardari excels in it, even held in awe as a “corruptor extraordinary” having mastered the art of buying and selling conscience. Despite his sordid reputation he became President of the country…

The icy wind blowing into the faces of Pakistanis for all the wrong reasons is because of the crass personal motives of corrupt politicians trying to avoid jail. Certainly, the economic situation is dire and inflation is on the rise, but this is a fact across the world, can this government be blamed for the…

Dear Readers, Water is arguably one of the most important commodities in this world, as important as crops, metals and energy are to this Earth, none of would them matter without water. Water is the basis of all life and it, more than anything else, is a vital element for human survival. It is rather ironic…

Dear Readers, The government’s announcement on January 14, 2022 and the officially launching of the abridged 48 pages of the National Security Policy (NSP) 2022-2026 generated a great deal of public debate. It has been criticized for not having been inclusive in its formulation, many alleged that the document was prepared without any consultative or interactive…

200 years of British colonialism and globalization have drastically changed the upper crust of South Asian civilizations. The South Asian subcontinent is a relatively isolated space. In the northwest, north and northeast it is surrounded by the highest mountain chains of the world, the Hindukush, Karakorum and Himalaya and the eastern and western sides down…

Islam is the second largest religion with about 600 million Muslims, forming about one third of South Asia’s population. South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. Islam is the dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives…

Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. There is a certain influence of Hindu civilization in places where Hindus have settled over the centuries in a sizeable number like for instance in Southeast Asia. There is a scholarly dispute about the origins of Hindu civilization. Mainly western historians,…

The Gandhara civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BC to the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD. Although multiple major powers ruled over this area during that time, they all had in common great reverence for Buddhism and the adoption of the Indo Greek…

The Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1300 BC, and in its mature form from 2600 BC to 1900 BC. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilisations of the Near East and South Asia,…