Progress Pakistan is an initative that seeks to inspire a forever depressed Pakistan and Pakistanis wherever they reside that Pakistan can and must progress. The initiative is similar to an initiative Other Pakistan launched many years ago titled Other Pakistan Rays of Hope which can be re-read here, here and here. Progress Pakistan’s first installment is [...]
Pakistan’s civil bureaucracy has for too long played the role of a seedy mistress to the ever lustful military leadership of this land of the pure. As a dynamic duo both have complimented the other in their acts of ommission and commission over sixty years and have turned Pakistan into a ‘maasilistan’.These bureaucracrats as a [...]
George Herbert once said that ‘hope is the poor man’s bread’. For millions of Pakistanis who are starving from an acute shortage of food today, it is only this bread of hope that continues to feed their soul. This post seeks to provide more such bread and is the second part of my rays of [...]
The masses of Pakistan are today bathing in the beauty of democracy since the elections of 18 February. Above all they are hoping that democracy’s potential is finally realised in the land of the pure and that dictatorship and the rule of the gun is finally confined to its rightful place – the graveyard of [...]
On the eve of the National Assembly being called to swear in a coalition government of previous foes now turned friends, Pakistan is today alive with hope. I will leave my views on the coalition for a more detailed post but I am hopeful of a better Pakistan given a new Pakistan is taking shape.It [...]
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