For the third time in less than a decade Pakistan and India are in the midst of a crisis precipitated by non-state actors. As in the past, Pakistani national pride and our national feelings towards India have overcome our ability to acknowledge the fact that our stance has little international support. In 1999, we fought [...]
Pakistan is passing through an uneasy transition from a quasi democracy to a participatory democracy. This uneasiness can be witnessed in the governance as well as the larger sections of the society and the media. Only a year back Pakistan was ruled by a military general who had introduced controlled democracy and ruled the roost [...]
By Sadiq Saleem The clear message from the Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in his interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel was that Pakistan’s security establishment does not differ with the civilian leadership in their fundamental worldview. The military, too, now considers terrorism as Pakistan’s major security threat and has no desire for [...]
Benazir Bhutto is dead, martyred by a hired assassin’s bullets in the cause of the struggle for the rights of the people and in challenging the hegemony of a coterie of vested interests that is feeding itself off the sweat and blood of the people. State minions have blamed the attack on Baitullah Mehsud, the [...]
By Shaheen Sehbai Deeply aggrieved, full of anger and passionately in mourning, Sindhis are baffled and confused at the strange reaction in Punjab, specially the ruling elite which has adopted an aggressively parochial attitude, not just against the PPP but against entire Sindh, after the death of Benazir Bhutto. The accusations that large numbers of [...]