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We were taught in the theories of international relations that democracies do not go to war. That notion however somehow seems lost in the erratic behaviour of the US administration regarding Pakistan. During the eight year long dictatorship in this country which also witnessed unprecedented assault on the American Twin Towers, the attitude of the [...]
It is my misfortune to have a cursed relationship with some of Pakistan’s best minds. I owe them a lot for having learnt quite a few things from their work and examples like sound arguments, use of language, reasoning, propaganda and love for liberty. Yet it is strange that whenever I take a principled position [...]
Have you ever given thought to the fact that what ridiculously ugly and suicidal life form we mortals have become? Here is our earth, a tiny particle of dust in the cosmic ocean of mass, and what we - the tiny crawling little germs of existence - are doing on this droplet of sand? We [...]
The propagandists are back in action, this time however to save their own skins. But before I move even a bit further on discussing their antics and semantics I must pay Pervez Musharraf a compliment. During his tenure, one must concede, propaganda was not only promoted as a cottage industry but experiments in this field [...]
As the country’s national assembly elects its new premier today, there are whispers going on in my head. Perhaps it is passionate imagination but I feel the spirit of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto is talking to me asking when her assassins will be brought to justice. Those wretched souls that snatched from us our shining beacon [...]
Since the defeat of President Musharraf’s loyalists in the national elections, the Western neo-cons and their cohorts in the TV channels, such as Fox, are projecting a doomsday scenario about the war on terror. We are repeatedly told that if Musharraf goes the country will become a hotbed of terrorism and the Taliban will have [...]
As soon as the popular verdict was known the incumbent government’s moles with the aid of some foreign diplomats moved with a clear view to sabotage the popular choices. The first attempt made was to cajole and coax the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to form a government without the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). That attempt [...]
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