Alya Alvi, Rawalpindi
Can we expect the President of Pakistan turn the evil into an eternal good? Some may say a scorpion is scorpion and a lion would never eat grass. But to me this is the calculation of mathematics. There comes a point of saturation, always. Continue reading
Posted in Have Your Say
By Imtiaz Gul
ilary Clinton’s October 21 visit to Islamabad underlined a new sense of realism in Washington. It was the reiteration of the old Washington view on Pakistan, though embedded in a more cautious and comforting tone. Continue reading
By Shahzad Raza
President Asif Ali Zardari’s chessboard moves ahead of the coming Senate elections will ensure his party will control the upper house of Parliament until 2015. The PML-Q, which had once been an overwhelming power with the support for former president Gen Pervez Musharraf, will now have almost no presence in Senate. The PML-N expects to win some additional support, but will not be able to threaten the rival PPP.
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Posted in Articles, Pakistan Politics
By Tanvir Ahmad Khan
Two recent newspaper reports, entitled respectively “Iran offers to provide 10,000 MW” and “Pakistan dithers on Iran gas pipeline plan”, both slightly inaccurate, focused on Pakistan-Iran relations, the first being excessively optimistic and the second, overly pessimistic. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Iran Issue, Opinions from Pakistan
By Shahid Javed Burki
By one count, this is the third time in about 50 years that Pakistan’s relations with the United States are moving through a rough patch. In a series of several articles, one today and more to follow in the weeks to come, I will provide a brief history of Pakistan’s relations with the United States and then go on to examine where the two countries may be heading in the next several years.
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By Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Punjab is the centre of Pakistan’s power politics where an overwhelming majority of traditional elite families live, who make and break coalitions among themselves and align with the army or civilian leaders most likely to form a government. Continue reading
By Khalid Iqbal
Afghan President Hamid Karzai presented the best facet of statesmanship when, in a recent TV interview, he said: “God forbid, if any war took place between Pakistan and the United States, we will stand by Pakistan…….If Pakistan is attacked and if the people of Pakistan needed Afghanistan’s help, we will be there for Pakistan.” He spoke of similar sentiments in case of an attack on Pakistan by India. Continue reading
Saad Hafiz
A familiar lament you hear from many Muslims is that our leaders are corrupt and inaccessible; that Muslims have borne the brunt of atrocities, particularly in the last hundred years from the forced unravelling of the Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Muslim World, Opinions from Pakistan
Yasser Latif Hamdani
Thanks to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), we are now a pornography-free society. Now our young boys and girls will grow up to be good Muslims unhindered by the evil temptations that the internet provided, especially boys. Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Miscellaneous, Opinions from Pakistan
Zubair Torwali
On October 19, an esteemed English daily wrote an editorial on the renewed threat with the title ‘Swati Taliban’ about the Taliban hiding in the northern province of Afghanistan — in Nuristan — poised to launch attacks on the security forces and the Aman Lashkar (peace militia) people in Dir and Chitral. Continue reading
