This is the reprt from my daughter.
My Daughter Dr. Giselle is right there and is keeping me updated. Her duty hours were just over and she is staying back. A hairline fracture in skull. Back badly bruised but nothing serious. No internal bleeding or injury.All vital signs perfect.
Pakistans gradual surrender to compellence imposed by Indo-US pressures reflects a fragile and self centred bunkered national leadership. This alone remains the most serious aspersion on the will and determination needed to handle a credible deterrence regime.
Posted from a talk at SAASI in...
Point by Point.
1. In any case I am not advancing the cause of an interim. It is my assessment.
2. There is no doubt that the present scrutiny is benefitting PTI. PPP has lost major leaders in Punjab. PMLN too has lost some. If it still remains a neck to neck, them a weak coalition that can be...
You need to understand that PTI will not be a Magic Wand to resolve issues plagued by bad politics for the past 60 years. Perhaps many of the issues will need a long time to resolve. Our first priority would be the socio-economic development and with it building syncretism and pluralism in our...
The next few weeks will witness a resurrected military dictator turned democrat fortify his credentials before the courts or else face the indignity of irrelevance.
Indignity and relevance are the key. Not status quo
Please watch the Great Debate Show on Foreign Policy with Shah Mahmud Quraishi. I am a member of the team that made the National, Foreign, Security and Nuclear policy. Diplomacy has its own trajectories beginning from Cooperation-persuassion-placation- dissuasion-threat- conflict. We shall first...
I have mentioned the overhang of the US led withdrawal. This is the way the establishment will move, the same one that took a somersault 6 years ago, failed in Raymond Davis, Abbotabad, Salala and Memogate. They lack the capacity.
Sorry but I am no establishment mouthpiece. I write my own analysis as a thinking Pakistani. Visit my Nation Blog to see the diversity of my analysis and on the timeline its accuracy. Yes I have a bias towards PTI becuase I am part of it. You will have to take your words back.