October’s B-side continues to focus on the scourge that is America’s continued influence in Pakistan, even her indirect rule of Pakistan. The much lauded and derided Kerry-Lugar bill is a key focus in the B-side whilst two alternative strategies for ending the occupation by America of Afghanistan are explored.
October’s B-side contents include:
With Friends Like the US, Pakistan Doesnt [...]
The Kerry-Lugar bill has sparked controversy and been the source of grave concern for Pakistan’s public and policymakers in recent weeks. The US bill has now passed into US legislation and offers Pakistan non-military aid to a tune of $7.5bn over five years.
This post is the first of three posts on the subject deliberately written [...]
Courtesy of Associated Press of Pakistan
This post must be read in conjunction with the previous post ‘Ramazan for the Ruled’ shown here. Few words are necessary to explain my key points in this post except to say that the two photos above show how the rulers of Pakistan both civilian and military spent Ramazan.
Luxury for [...]
Photo: Dawn
Ramazan is the month of mercy and blessings. With Ramazan now over and probably forgotten I wish to pass comment on the mercies that this Ramazan brought to Pakistan as the photo above shows clearly!
Few Pakistanis will disagree that the month passed with few blessings save for the masses suffering rampant inflation. The sugar [...]
The vile Taliban have struck three times this week as part of a co-ordinated form of a prelude attack to the Wazirstan operation that is soon to start. Worst of all are always the killing of innocents in Peshawar and Rawalpindi which sicken us all, yet these acts of evil harden our resolve to defeat [...]
The PPP government is not liked by many a Pakistani, including this scribe owing to its poor governance.The talk of the town or chowks is of change with mid-term elections and army rule been touted as the solution for our ills. I remain a principled opponent of the PPP government, yet it needs to be [...]
The bastard is dead.
A video has been released to the BBC in recent days by the sons of Satan. the Taliban that prove that Baitullah Mehsud is dead. I cannot contain my delight in seeing the video that shows the Indian-funded butcher of innocents dead and happily share the video below:
The latin mood music that [...]