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Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has described Pakistan as an “international migraine ” and argued that the South Asian country will be one of the hot spots that the next American president will have to contend with. Albright, who served President Bill Clinton in his second term of office, said Pakistan gives you…
In most countries of the world leaders engage in forward planning to negotiate and bring in prosperity whilst they are in office. Pakistani politicians however are caught between a rock and a hard place as our media tells us. Â Personally instead of blaming everyone from top to bottom IÂ cannot recall when we were…
Finally the government is showing some signs of being alive in some form since the elections. Why is this so? well dear readers all 8 of you that is, we again stand at the brink of the famous cavern we keep visiting as a country the one called “doom”. Matter of fact we have been…
Dr Shamshad Akhtar,, Governor of State Bank of Pakistan is living in a fool’s paradise. She thinks that the Central Bank has been addressing monetary policy issues of Pakistan rather efficiently and working round the clock. If working round the clock means screwing up the economy further, they have done a great job. The Rupee…
With stock exchanges tumbling like dominos the world over all of us have lost not just a pile of our hard earned savings but a lot of our trust as well. We as citizens of the world normally believe that a) The financial system has backup plans and checks built inside to aide the economy…
As people scramble in the mad rush of last minute chand raat shopping news has just arrived that the Emir of the Tehrik E Taliban in Pakistan “Baitullah Mehsud has passed away”. Apparently he was suffering from high blood pressure and kidney problems for a while. Will the Tehrik E Taliban now scatter or will…
It is hard to see nations falter on the cusp of their brilliance. It is hilarious though to see superpowers implode on their own self righteousness and this is exactly what the world is watching as America rejects the bailout plan to save their precious wall street. Lets be neutral about this and forget for…
While our news anchors and talk show hosts are busy parading the usual bunch of government luminaries in front of us on late night tv asking the same questions in the just “oh so serious” monotone on the war on terror and who’s war it is? The local lashkar or tribes in the Fata region…
To be quite honest after speaking to some people in Islamabad as well as listening to TV reports right after this terrible bomb blast, when the cctv footage was released it left me more than a little worried. First of all how did a truck this big totally laden with explosive just amble up to…
A few months ago Pakistani investors watched wide eyed as they saw their savings invested into the KSE or Karachi stock exchange literally melt away in front of their eyes. The KSE had been growing at phenomenal rates for the last 3 years averaging gains of about 90-99% attracting investment from all over this country…