Commentary on Pakistan: politics, society and the questions facing the country.
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9/11 of Pakistan
If gruesome murder in Peshawar of 149 people including 132 students, many of whom being under aged, does not start our war against terror and we still allow certain depraved minds among us to continue to propagate and confuse us saying that it is the…
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Spineless Leaders
The whole world accuses us of bloodletting. We are in denial. We have failed in catching up with the pace of events we ourselves set in motion unwittingly many decades ago. With uncanny persistency we have refused to acknowledge the gravity of the situation. We…
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SAARC: An Adventure in Regional Cooperation
Syed Yousif Raza Gillani, Prime Minister of Pakistan, addressing the 16th SAARC Summit, which was attended by Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and leaders of six other countries, in Thimphu, Bhutan on 28 April, 2010, said the disputes between SAARC countries had stalled its progress…