After the Abbottabad operation, an American businessman who wrote that Iraq had WMDs and has termed Pakistan’s state agencies as ‘terror masters’ delivered an unsigned memo to a US military official who “He did not find it at all credible and took no note of it then or later”. Five months later, the American businessman [...]
The hot news item this week is that Husain Haqqani has been called to Islamabad for a ‘briefing’, which, according to news reports, means that he’s been sacked. Of course, we should remember that this is not the first time media has reported that Husain Haqqani has been sacked, only to see the reports fade [...]
The following quote is taken from a piece by Brig (R) Mehboob Qadir published in Daily Times on 17 August about the state of TV mullahs and the effect that these performers are having on our society. Our faith is already badly mauled by their brutal brethren out in the street and is gasping for life. [...]
State was the only opponent, which defence counsels used to argue their cases against. Now they have to argue it against the media as well. The first ‘official’ duty that staff perform early in the morning in courts is to place newspapers in judges’ retiring rooms. As a result, judges are already opinionated about the crimes [...]
I have to admit that I’ve been a bit skeptical of the Abbottabad commission from the very beginning. It took the Americans a few hours to carry out the operation, and it has taken months for the commission to even get started. It was clear from the start that certain people didn’t want any inquiry [...]
If your rich uncle offers to pay your school fees and you tell him that you want to take some time off, he’s not going to send you the money anyway. It doesn’t mean you are abandoned to your own fate, it just means that the money is for school fees, not a gift for [...]
Who watches the watchmen? Who guards the guards? These sayings have been used to debate the question of where power should ultimately reside. In the world’s democracies, the power rests with the people’s ability to make informed decisions. Key reason democracies protect the freedoms of speech and press is because media has the duty to [...]
I recently came across an article published in The Nation. The article in short basically talks about a Pakistani-American woman named Farah Ahmed standing for election in Sugarland City council in Texas and how the US state of Texas has denounced all personal propaganda created against her for being of Pakistani origins. I come across [...]
PM has convened an independent commission to investigate the Abbottabad incident and ascertain the full facts regarding the presence of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. This is a commendable decision and one that should be fully backed by those whose primary concern is truth and justice. It is time that we part the dark clouds [...]
Political opportunists of every stripe are coming out of the woodwork to take advantage of the nation’s confusion over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad last week. Meanwhile, the nation’s image is at a low point as the world asks how Osama bin Laden could be living comfortably outside PMA Kakul [...]