Middle-east is up in flames again. Israel has been bombing the living daylights out of Gaza for nearly 10 days now. Palestine (read Hamas) on its part has kept launching missiles into Israel for a lot more than ten days. Now I am not someone who lives in the middle-east.I am someone who lives in… Read More »
“Dawood – Who’s that? We never heard of him before.” “Maulana Masood Azhar who? Sorry, never heard that name” “Terrorism? What’s that? Don’t ask us to eliminate terrorism, we’ll go to war” Pakistan is a nation that is in a state of denial. Never before has clearer evidence emerged that Islamic terrorists have established their… Read More »
Economies all around the world are in a recession just 4 years after they recovered from the last one. This recession, like the last one, is a product of greed. In 2000, there was the greed to earn a quick buck from dot com companies. Hence there mushroomed an eco-system of dot com firms that… Read More »
Pakistan is on the brink of another civil war after its prodigal daughter & the preferred candidate for the Prime Minister’s post, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on December 27. Her killing came as a shock not only to Pakistan, but to the western world that was counting on Bhutto for a smooth transition of power… Read More »
“They knew that there is no point in asking the generals for freedom. They knew that they don’t have guns and can’t beat the army. All they wanted to do was show the world what their situation is and that they are prepared to die.” These are brave words coming from a nation under oppression.… Read More »