SHOOTING BLANKS
General Pervaiz Musharraf is currently on his longest foreign tour which will last three weeks and he’ll be shuttling around the continental United States after his Cuban jaunt with his modest entourage. When asked if he felt safe being out of the country for so long, the General with all his bravado replied in the...
SHOULD WE LAUGH OR SHOULD WE CRY
Over the weekend the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the usual circus went across to neighboring Afghanistan for a usual “building brotherly relations” visit. What was unusual was PM Aziz pledging USD 100 million to our brothers across the border for various “reconstruction” projects. I might add that this money is going from the National...
“SOFT” IMAGE SUICIDE
For the millions of rupees the Government of Pakistan spends on projecting a “softer” image for the country, the returns have been slim of late. And for all the various “advisors” and allegedly parha likha Ministers and such, as a Pakistani I am ashamed of the way my Government has handled Mukhtar Bibi’s case. The...
