July’s B-side includes an article by David ‘Pakistan will fall in six months’ Kilcullen and focuses on his prescription for solving Afghanistan. Kilcullen’s article is contrasted by an article by Graham Fuller who was a former CIA Station Chief in Kabul who lays bare US folly in Afghanistan and Pakistan on President Obama’s watch. Both [...]
The celebrity president of the world Barack Obama has won the world over with his now legendary ‘Yes We Can’. Unfortunately his acts do not match his stellar words and instead he is busy droning Pakistan and openly attacking a sovereign country.
Yet as a Pakistani hopeful of the rise of a new Pakistan I remain [...]
Tariq Ali is a passionate Pakistani and a towering intellectual. As a writer and as an eminent thinker of his times he is amongst the very best and a personal favourite of mine. Tariq Ali has written about Pakistan for decades and is seen as an expert on all things Pakistan.
I came across the following [...]
The Pakistan students issue remains at the forefront of my work and and I deem an update necessary given I have some mixed news that needs sharing. Pakistanis inside and outside of Pakistan will be delighted as am I, at the news that two students Janas Khan and Sultan Sher were released on Tuesday.
Yet smiles [...]
I am smiling as is Swat albeit slowly in delight at the good news that Pakistan’s internally displaced people have begun returning to Swat and the wider Malakand Division. No words of praise are good enough to honour the people of Swat and Malakand Division who have sacrified their all for Pakistan. Swatis have given [...]
The budget has been passed irrespective of its glaring failings most notably the increase in foreign debt a la the IMF. Debt is likely to soar and fast become the staple diet of the people of Pakistan for many decades, even chaining the unborn to a plight of promised misery. The national leadership to whom the nation looks for [...]
June’s B-side continues in the same vein as those of April and May with its twin focus on US-Pakistan relations albeit in a new context looking at Uncle Sam’s fascination with our nuclear arsenal. The second focus remains Lucifer’s litter namely the Taliban and their evil.
June’s B-side contents are:
Pakistan and The Bomb by BRUCE [...]