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March 2011′s B-side is set to be a depressing read. Depressing for its main focus is on Pakistan-US relations vis a vis the Raymond Davis issue and looks at both sides of what is now a useless and redundant debate with two articles by luminaries no less than Christopher Hitchens and the President of Pakistan himself. The [...]

It is 23 March today. A day for Pakistanis to celebrate the Pakistan Resolution presented in Lahore in 1940. On that day an unlikely dream was dreamt by the founders of Pakistan as per the vision of Allama Iqbal, a dream that was realised only seven years later by the Quaid-e-Azam. Today many speeches will be made with glowing references to the [...]

Raymond Davis Azaadi Mubarak to one and all. Mubarak is due for the Pakistani state has once again sold itself in accepting so-called blood money paid in Raymond rupees for an enemy of the state. In my previous post on Raymond Davis see here, it was proved that Davis was a cold-blooded CIA assassin and never a diplomat. One noted how in recent [...]

Pakistan is in dire need of many Asiya Nasir’s, why is answered in the video below: Asiya Nasir’s speech should shame and awake all Pakistanis to the ugly face of today’s (read Zia’s) Pakistan. Asiya Nasir is an MNA from Balochistan who is right to criticise Pakistan’s treatment of her minorities.  The speech reminds us all of our [...]

Intolerance killed Shahbaz Bhatti. It is the same intolerance that killed Salman Taseer before him and will kill many more unless Pakistan awakes from its comatose state and confronts and defeats the hijacking of Islam in its name. As I said in my post in January on Salman Taseer’s killing here, ‘the right to disagree, [...]