Vladimir Putin “Anyone who does not regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart...”
Barack Obama “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition...”
Why must I continue to dwell on the VIPs? Only because they are a social evil number one. We need an antidote to the virus they suffer from, found only in the Third World. It’s been largely eradicated from the developed world. Anyone inventing a cure deserves the Nobel Prize. The disease is as fatal [...]
I couldn’t believe my ears when responsible quarters informed me of an American-Blackwater conspiracy to isolate Pakistan.
According to this heinous plan the objective will be achieved by infiltrating the media, specifically through placing people in responsible positions in the print and electronic media. These plants will then be made responsible for freaking out ordinary people.
While [...]
The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.
– Michael Lind, To Have and [...]
The self-styled and inappropriately named “Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms” has been trying to keep itself in the news lately. It was formed in June last year and given the job of making recommendations to implement the Charter of Democracy. It has been in existence for eight months but is still far from completing its [...]
Measuring inflation is a tricky job. Controlling it is trickier. No government can come up with inflation data that is believable for all. And inflation cannot be checked effectively if the mechanism used for measuring it suffers from structural flaws.
But efforts must be made to record changes in the actual cost of living of various [...]
For all those still scratching their heads, wondering why our cricketers do what they do, the time has come to rest easy: the greatest unsolved mystery after The Bermuda Triangle and Who Killed JFK has in fact been solved.
The clues were always there, they just had not been presented to the public in court. A [...]
On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined “Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.”
At her scheduled May 6 sentencing, she “faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each of the attempted murder and armed assault charges; [...]
Most people — to paraphrase the radical British poet Adrian Mitchell — ignore most history because most history ignores most people. It is traditionally the domain of ‘great’ people: conquerors and kings, statesmen and generals, prophets and pioneers.
Other people — the overwhelming majority — don’t get much of a look in. At best they are [...]
Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary, due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Bob Chapman writes in The International Forecaster:
Each day brings more revelations of efforts of the NY Fed and Goldman Sachs [...]
A must read article by Saleem Safi exposing the hypocritical and misleading notions of jihad and Islam concocted and used by the ISI, the so called Afghan Jihadis, Taliban and their supporters in Pakistan.
The article exposes the un-Islamic and opportunistic character of Hameed Gul, Sami-ul-Haq, Fazlur-Rehman, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Zia-ul-Haq and other pro-jihadi elements in [...]
In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn’t have any effect.
– Paul Goodman
Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard [...]
The poor man is under tremendous stress as a result of numerous economic hardships including high unemployment, inflation, scarcity of essential commodities, and limited ability of the state to target welfare services. These hardships often prompt those who hold welfare of a common man close to their heart to question the relevance of issues that [...]
This week the U.S. Government began floating the idea of welcoming low and mid-level Taliban defectors into its war on terror against Al Qaeda. After waging an eight-year “dirty war” against the Taliban, U.S. military commanders and politicians are publicly acknowledging their “insurgent” enemy is actually part of the “fabric” of Afghan society.
U.S. and NATO [...]
The death already seemed like a bitter injustice. A maid died after unexplained injuries she got in the house of her rich employer. But one detail in particular has outraged Pakistanis: she was 12.
Her employer — a lawyer and a former head of the Lahore Bar Association — says she fell down stairs, and died [...]
After going through the Herald magazine’s annual issue, which this year included a survey on Pakistani youth, I was compelled to write about the identity crisis plaguing the youngsters of this country today. Pakistan’s turbulent history has widened, rather than resolved, the contradictions present in our society, leaving society as polarised as ever. The young [...]
Leszek Kolakowski, the Polish-born Oxford philosopher who passed away last year, left behind a striking insight: “We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.” This is a message of tough love for countries such as Pakistan to whom history has not been [...]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the country’s special forces have carried out a number of assassinations of Palestinian militants in the past and have also been blamed for killings which the Jewish state has never publicly taken responsibility for.
In addition, the army and air force have carried out so-called ‘targeted killings’ of numerous Palestinian leaders [...]
Politics is a dirty business. Electoral politics particularly, in a society like ours which is sharply divided on provincial, tribal, religious and clannish lines. Crudely put, this is for two reasons. One, areas of the Indian subcontinent that became Pakistan share the same legacy with other parts of South Asia which is derived from caste-based [...]
Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law.
Res. 57 (Sep. 18, 1948) – Expresses deep shock at the assassination of the U.N. Mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said judiciary is there to strengthen democracy in Pakistan.
We will not allow confrontations among state’s institutions, he maintained.
This CJ remarked during hearing of case regarding the promotions of bureaucracy brass here in Supreme Court (SC).
I had ruled in black and white on July 31 that judiciary [...]
Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties
Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt
Miss Captive Beauty 2010: 22-year-old crowned in Cereso prison beauty pageant
Pakistan beat Hong Kong to enter 2nd round of Davis Cup
Low-budget Iraq War drama “The Hurt Locker” sweeps Oscars & makes history
Sialkot Stallions, Faisalabad Wolves set-up Twenty20 final
