Archive for December, 2008

December’s B-side

December 30th, 2008

Welcome to Other Pakistan’s first ever B-side post. The B-side will in truth be the better side of Other Pakistan for it will carry articles and posts from other writers and commentators regarding issues affecting Pakistan, with brief comment from moi.
Thus it will allow Other Pakistan to become a better forum of dialogue where a [...]

Saluting Ansar Abbasi (Pakistan’s Robert Fisk)

December 29th, 2008

Ansar Abbasi needs no introduction in Pakistan. His body of work is a testament to his status as Pakistan’s most eminent investigative journalist.  Indeed military and civil governments alike have both been subjected to his passionate, incisive and investigative journalism for decades. However the present Gillani government bereft of accolades aplenty has  the dubious distinction [...]

Indian Home Truths

December 20th, 2008

My post titled Mumbai the movie was a useful starting point in highlighting the Indian disease of lies. Yet a far more qualified and authorative commentary has come my way. It is written by the brilliant Indian writer Arundhati Roy and it is a story of Indian home-truths and well worth a read:

The Monster in [...]

16 December

December 16th, 2008

GUEST BLOG by Nadeem Arif Najmi
December 16th is a date no Pakistani should or could forget. On this dark day in 1971, Pakistan was rent asunder. A patriotic majority of our countrymen had been made into enemies, and our true enemies took advantage of that situation. But as Faraz saab said:

Ghairon se kya gila, jab [...]

Beware Inferior India

December 14th, 2008

I begin by saluting the Pakistan Air Force which saw off the inferior Indians yesterday. The Pakistan Air force is as their own website says ‘a symbol of pride for the nation’
It is fact now that the immoral and crooked nation of India yesterday strayed into Pakistani territory in Kashmir and Lahore. Irrespective of the diatribe peddled by Sunglasses [...]

Mumbai the Movie

December 4th, 2008

The fallout from the vile attacks in Mumbai is all too predictable. As per usual Pakistan is to blame and needs to be taught a lesson by the paper tiger that is India. The Indian media have gone into a frenzy each outbidding the other in their quest to win Olympic Gold in twisted journalism.
Opinions [...]