Is love in the air? For months I have been seeing headlines reporting the great Imran Khan has called for the government to go. So wasn’t it only a matter of time before the new wanna-be coup leader got together with the last guy to come up with this same plan? This is why I [...]
If questions about sovereignty were merely political weapons to be made during the KL debate, the American operation in Abbottabad has put them into start reality. The Americans may have killed their man and left, but the operation highlighted some more disturbing points such as how did the world’s most wanted terrorist mastermind get into [...]
WASHINGTON, June 22 (APP): Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States has said it is through demonstration of mutual respect that the two countries can forge a long-term relationship. “Both countries have their respective processes. We need to show respect for each other’s processes. We need to show respect for each other’s people and then develop [...]
In my last article I asked the readers if it is justified to have Anti-American sentiments after I had come across an article talking about Farah Ahmed, A Pakistani American woman standing for city council elections and how the US state of Texas had denounced all personal propaganda created against her for being of Pakistani [...]
Imran Khan has built his political party largely on the basis of establishing a ‘truly Islamic’ Paksitan. While his party communications are careful to say comforting things like, ‘a truly Islamic society advocates tolerance, moderation and freedom to practice the religion of one’s choice without fear’, when Imran Khan speaks to the people it looks [...]
I have friends who tell me all the time that if drones were banned and the Americans sent packing, somehow everything would stop. Drones are feeding the militant groups, they say, because the families of those killed turn into suicide bombers to take revenge. I have always thought this was a strange way of taking [...]
There are few issues that illustrate the current political stalemate better than taxes. Pakistan has one of the lowest tax-to-GDP ratios in the world, and it’s expected to stay in single digits until at least 2014. The answer to this problem is apparent – “broaden the tax base by netting potential taxpayers and withdrawing exemptions”. [...]
Two men were offered plots on which to build their family homes. Each was given a choice – you can have a plot of sand today, or you can have a plot with a level stone and fertile grounds but for this you must wait some time. The first man said he could not wait, [...]
On Saturday, Business Recorder noted that Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has registered 21 companies having foreign investment during May. These companies have investment by foreign nationals from the U.K.,China, Canada, Denmark, South Korea, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Jordan, Norway, the Netherlands, Singapore and Afghanistan. Notice anything missing from the list? How about the [...]