George Herbert once said that ‘hope is the poor man’s bread’. For millions of Pakistanis who are starving from an acute shortage of food today, it is only this bread of hope that continues to feed their soul. This post seeks to provide more such bread and is the second part of my rays of [...]
The masses of Pakistan are today bathing in the beauty of democracy since the elections of 18 February. Above all they are hoping that democracy’s potential is finally realised in the land of the pure and that dictatorship and the rule of the gun is finally confined to its rightful place - the graveyard of [...]
The disgraceful and demeaning assaults on Dr Sher Afghan Niazi and Dr Arbab Rahim have left a bad taste in the mouth. As a nation we all felt diminshed and degraded by such futile actions, however the nation was to witness even more turmoil with the barbaric MQM-sponsored massacre of innocents in Karachi a day [...]
Today is the 29th death anniversary of the great Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, however for many millions of Pakistanis me included he is alive even today. Nearly three decades later the magic of ZA Bhutto reigns supreme from Larkana to Lakki Marwat - Bhutto is without parallel.The Bhutto scent continues to seduce one and all, [...]
Today a great Balochi returns to his native homeland. His name is Ifthikhar Muhammed Chaudhry and he is the honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan.His ‘no’ on the 9th of March to a khaki king is now legendary and set in stone a new Pakistan movement that has provided hope to an entire nation that Pakistan [...]
The title and photo above says it all.That said I cannot contain my delight given that the Chief Justice of Pakistan and his great family as well as his brother judges have been released from illegal and immoral detention as per the instructions of the new Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
This is a cause for celebration, [...]
The Mush-Bush tango of two has just given birth to its greatest evil, to its biggest bastard for the son of Satan is soon to arrive at our door. My blood is boiling at the moment for I am full of rage at hearing of the appointment of General Jay Hood as Defence Attache in [...]
On the eve of the National Assembly being called to swear in a coalition government of previous foes now turned friends, Pakistan is today alive with hope. I will leave my views on the coalition for a more detailed post but I am hopeful of a better Pakistan given a new Pakistan is taking shape.It [...]
On the eve of the address of the Chief Justice to the various bar associations it is vital for me to once again laud the lawyers movement.No words of praise no matter how lucid and celebratory they may be can ever be enough. The soil of Pakistan salutes them for they have sacrified and toiled [...]
No words are necessary.
- Originally posted on 9th March 2008, 00:00 PK Time, written under MARTIAL LAW