January’s B-side is the first of a new year and of a new decade, yet its focus remains on issues historical, issues that have plagued Pakistan for decades. The two A’s of America and Afghanistan remain the key focus for Pakistan as we enter 2010, a year in which the Obama surge is expected to [...]
Breaking News: PM Gilani can actually govern Pakistan.
Yes I know its a shock for many readers to read the above statement and many will have fallen off their respective chairs by now. And so I will repeat the breaking news that the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani can actually govern!
The evidence of such a tall claim [...]
Prime Minister Gilani is a man of many words and few actions. The PM to his credit or discredit readers can chooise, is always suited and booted and oozes class whilst his performance in Parliament and elsewhere is full of proud rhetoric and promises galore. However his words have yet to materialise into action with Gilani’s governance [...]
Imran Khan and his politics is a source of many a debate, derision and division. That said, Imran Khan was, is and will always be a living legend and one of the greatest Pakistanis to have graced the land of the pure.
Such praise is richly deserved chiefly due to Imran Khan’s charity work in establishing the Shaukat Khanum Cancer [...]
Aman ki Asha is a worthwhile peace initiative by The Jang Group and the Times of India, the leading media houses of both nations. Destination peace is its singular aim and it is an initiative that Other Pakistan is happy to support for we too support peace between Pakistan and India.
The use of doves to signify [...]
GUEST BLOG by Nadeem Arif Najmi
It is all too easy to describe 2009 as an terrible year for Pakistan. A year of horrific suicide bombings on an almost daily basis, drone attacks and violations of our sovereignty, Pakistan being sold at the price of the Kerry-Lugar bill. crippling inflation, power cuts, gas shortages, tremendous deprivation and [...]