Pakistan’s proactive strategy and taking the battle to the militants has apparently payed off in the KP Regions. Well done Army, Air force and the Intelligence. I being the biggest critic of the intelligence will not hold back where praise deserves to be extended and here is a case where a commendable operation has been…
Times are such and narratives so many, that everyone has a point of view and an opinion on anything under the sun. Today, the most pressing issue seems to be the Durand Line, (as the Afghans like to call it), or the international border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, (as Pakistan likes to address it). I…
‘If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It’sa country based on theatre. It’s a lunatic State’ – completely insane. Norman Finkelstien Israel came into being in 1948 through a dubious United Nations Resolution, 181, that called for the partition of Palestine into two States –…
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark: the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light’’ Plato Dr Ruskin described ‘economy’ as the bastard science of darkness1 . He developed the idea of the Economic Man2 . A material thought that now governs how the world…
‘When we are killed, do not say we are dead, for in fact, it is you who are dead’, Palestinian addressing the Muslim World We live in times where a divided world endures the contradictions of clashing values, interests and politics. Conventions are being redefined, as new ones are established, diplomacy is reduced to a…
At 2:30pm, on 22 April, allegedly 26 people were shot and killed (could be more), in a terrorist attack in Baisaran, 6 kms from Pahalgam in Indian Held Kashmir. True to form, the Indian media went ballistic, and even more predictable, Pakistan was immediately blamed. The attack was owned by, what the Indian media said,…
‘Hostility towards Pakistan is the quickest route to national unity in India’, Barak Obama India and Pakistan, two nuclear capable States, pugnacious neighbours, recently prosecuted a short war against one another. It was an unprecedented war that remained confined to an electro-magnetic spectrum, it was a non-contact engagement, beyond- visual- range (BVR), with unbelievable stand-off…
