Monthly Archives: February 2012

Dr Qaisar Rashid

Pakistan has drifted several nautical miles away from its original itinerary. The idea of the formation of Pakistan was not to be a security state but a welfare state. The problems Pakistan confronted within its initial years of formation provided Pakistan with the mandatory push to glide towards the goal of a security state. Security consciousness so embraced started hogging the space meant for political, economic and diplomatic affairs.
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Shamshad Ahmad

The sharp reaction in Pakistan over the US congressional anti-Pakistan slur in the context of Balochistan was understandable. The government and the people have been furious that within a week after the controversial hearing on Balochistan in the House Sub-Committee on Foreign Relations, a handful of misguided if not mischievous congressmen should have crossed all limits by moving a resolution in the US House of Representatives that called for giving “right of self-determination” to the Baloch people. Continue reading →

By Najmuddin A. Shaikh

IF any evidence was required that as a nation generally and as the so-called educated intellectual class particularly we have succumbed to mass hysteria and paranoia, we need go no further than the reaction to the hearing that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher conducted on Balochistan and the subsequent resolution he presented in the US House of Representatives supporting Balochistan’s right to independence.
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