"A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expe… Read More
No - Imran’s diagnosis and priorities are wrong.Imran is not as infallible as his followers or sponsors make of him. He is merely looking at symptoms, not the root cause of Pakistan&rs&hell…Read More
The Pakistani middle class is struggling as incomes stagnate and cost of living soars. All major IFIs including the WB, IMF & ADB project GDP growth to stagnate between 2.5 to 3% p.a. at… Read More
That I must be their Scourge and Minister.I will bestow him, and will answer wellThe death I gaue him: so againe, good night.I must be cruell, onely to be kinde;William Shakespeare, Hamlet (… Read More
A jobless Pakistani citizen offers his ‘eye for sale’ to feed his poor family!More and more families are constrained to sell their children to survive abject poverty, to pay off… Read More
“We are told that the little creature called the ermine is so acutely sensitive as to its own cleanliness, that it becomes paralyzed and powerless at the slightest touch of defilement… Read More
Organized Crime is having a corrupting influence on all state institutions in Pakistan. RPP, CPP, OGRA, NICL, Hajj, Ephedrine, PIA, Railways, PTA 3G… the list of recent scams goes on… Read More
“Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead.I see a strange confession in thine eye.Thou shakest thy head, and holdest it fear or sinTo speak a truth. If he be slain –The tongu… Read More
According to the media, Ms. Anita Turab Ali, a mid-career Pakistani civil servant (BS-19) has been suspended from service – in all probability for directly writing to the Chief Electio… Read More
The much-awaited self-claimed ‘political drone’ has now most likely hit Pakistan today. According to the media, since we do not have access to the full text of the speech, it was… Read More
In a recent news story (here and here), the Foreign Office of Pakistan celebrated the Father of the Nation Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s birthday on December 20th, for the first time in count… Read More
A leaf from history to refresh your minds:Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (1653-8), remains one of the most controver… Read More
re the article “Karbala and how Lahore was involved” in the Daily DAWN, dated Nov. 26, 2012.Disappointed to read this attempt to rewrite the history of Karbala on anecdotal, unsu… Read More
ne fiat tantum iustitia, sed et pateat fieri“Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”– Lord Chief Justice HewartJustice i… Read More
Pakistani youth studying abroad has a long history of getting embroiled in anarchist and lawful politics at home. One of this was the “London Group” formed in London in 1969 by… Read More
This piece is not about the increasing or decreasing enrolments in Pakistani faith-based, state or private schools, nor about the role of faith-based schools or places of worship in a socie… Read More
al-mulk yabqā ʹalā al-kufr wa lā yabqā ʹalā al-zulm(a government may survive with unbelief but not with injustice)On Thursday, Sept 27, Sardar Akhtar Meng… Read More
Demonax said that ‘probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.’ But selective application of laws and universal v… Read More
September 21, 2012 - Pakistan’s national day of reverence for the Prophet (pbuh) turned into a national day of shame when death and destruction reigned in Karachi, its largest city, ju… Read More
New Pakistan-India liberalized visa agreement (credits: PTI) India's Minister for External Affairs, S M Krishna reading Pakistan Resolution at the Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore(photo credits: T… Read More
While browsing the internet, I 've just noticed that the SPSC website "summary" in Google search is displaying a weird banner.It seems that the SPSC search profile has been compromised!! Read More
As doctors not just provide basic health services but also create the wealth of the country, they are justified to seek the passage of such laws and service structures as may be necessary to… Read More
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum becau… Read More
I long for a landwhere one can find food and shelterand be free to dream one's dream.A land - where men can work and earn and be (....)And women can hold their heads upand walk without fear… Read More
The people have spoken.The bloodiest elections of Pakistani history climaxed with an election-day violence, voter intimidation, harassment, rigging and fraud, especially in Karachi and Lahor… Read More
In 1991, the Oxford-trained Dr. Manmohan Singh became India’s finance minister as India faced severe economic crisis and turned the tide by introducing structural reforms that liberali… Read More