REALITY CHECK
President Bush came and President Bush left. It was a “pleasant” trip with some good photo opportunities, some shoulder touching, a joint press conference, and a little public disagreement on the definition of democracy. It was a congenial visit in diplomatic-speak, but nothing ground breaking came out of it, nor should anything ground-breaking been expected. ...
The Sugar Coated Shaft
It is now official – the party has begun though 95% of the population of Pakistan is not invited, but then the plebs have never been on the guest lists since the birth of this country in 1947. On Monday the 6th of June, a glib and shifty Omar Ayub Khan with his Hitler-esque mustache...
ONE STEP FORWARD TWO STEPS BACK
Last week Shaukat Aziz spoke about increasing Pakistan’s per capita income to 1500 USD by 2015. I can safely say that no one, including the opposition, would want to see anything other than that, the main question of how we’re going to get there remains a mystery. Fifty years after independence from the British, Pakistan...
