November’s B-side covers a wide canvas and begins by looking at the vitroil directed at Pakistan and her nuclear status in the form of continous allegations of proliferation by Dr AQ Khan. The second article looks at the potential of the wider South Asia region if the IPI gas pipeline dream is realised linking Pakistan with Iran and India [...]
Pakistan’s ever impressive Interior Minister, the one and only Rehman Malik said in recent days that he would resign if Blackwater was found to be operating in Pakistan. Readers will know of Blackwater and its evil for it needs no introduction as the blood of innocent Iraqi civilians and their stories of blood, death and destruction do all the talking [...]
Question: Can anyone remember a guy called Pervez Musharraf, who was the former Pakistani president and army chief no less?
Answer: The man who sold Pakistani citizens to Uncle Sam and the creator of the missing persons of Pakistan is too missing and AWOL from Pakistan. However thanks to the media boom that Pervez Musharraf brought to Pakistan (a decision [...]
Pakistan currently epitomises hell on earth and this truth pains me no end. The sons of satan, the vile Taliban have unleashed a wave of terror in Peshawar and the wider NWFP Province as their response to the Wazirstan army operation. The Taliban live in a fools paradise if they think that they will scare the people [...]
This is the third and final post that focuses on the Kerry-Lugar bill and should be read in conjunction with the first two posts with part 1 here and part two here.
Before I begin, it is important to point out the rationale for the approach taken by this scribe to the bill and my write-up of it which has [...]
The Kerry-Lugar bill has been the source of controversy in Pakistan after being passed into US legislation. The bill offers Pakistan non-military aid to a tune of $7.5bn over five years and has sparked public outrage owing to its harsh conditions.
This post is the second of three posts and looks at the arguments in favour of the bill as championed [...]