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Honest to God, things are getting to a stage where we have to think about writing a letter to taliban and ask them to rescue us from the American supported forces of evil that control Pakistan. And there is historical precedence because Shah Waliullah wrote to Abdali and asked him for...

Basically these people are twenty first century version of Macaulay's children - future enablers of western hegemony in Pak. Back in the nineteenth century. as Sir Syed argued, gora society operated on certain values that were worth emulating by outsiders. Their society put premium on...

Rhyming of history is plain scary. Suez Canal was the grand daddy OBOR project of the nineteenth century. England, which was the dominant power of that time, opposed the construction of the project just as Uncle Sam is opposing OBOR scheme today. Britain's opposition stemmed from the fact that...

Most excellent and nothing less than what the beysharam judiciary deserves. These would be aflatoons gave carte blanche to the very goons that physically attacked the court in the past. Why should awam respect and protect the institution when the institution does not respect itself? Encore is...

Around the time when a Pakistani kangaroo court was debating reference against Qazi Issa for possessing undeclared London property, US congress was conducting confirmation hearing on Ketanji Jackson's nomination for the US supreme court. Now imagine that during senate confirmation hearing, news...

BS and I will prove why. Imagine you have a deposit in a bank whose management comprises of corrupt MFers who invest depositor's money in ponzi investments in return for kickbacks. Imagine auditors are on the take as well so no one finds out until a whistle blower exposes the scam after which...

Once again, some very good points and very insightful comparison between Vietcong and Taliban. The sad fact is there are no forums in Pak (legislature, press, universities) where you see analysis like you have done on long term policy options for Pak and how to go about achieving them. Instead...

I think you raise some good points. Taliban will adapt the right attitude once revolutionary fervor burns out. We have seen in China that Chinese policymakers become pragmatic after old guard started to go in the background. I believe we will see something similar in Afghanistan. Taliban...

All well and good. But right now, Pakistan is in control of a dangerous cabal, which in the past and without any remorse or payback (i) killed an estimated one million plus Vietnamese for no rhyme or reason (ii) caused death of over 500k Iraqi children through unjust imposition of sanctions and...

As for what he did wrong during his tenure, my answer would be very little given the challenges he dealt with namely (i) economy close to bankruptcy (ii) COVID and (iii) election of Biden. None of these problems can be attributed to his government. But he is not blameless. He has been peddling...

This is why Indians should not be allowed to post on topics relating to Pak economy. They pretend to friends but they have bughal may churee. And even worse, their b/s does not get called because most Pakistanis are ignorant on matters relating to the economy. What was the price of oil at the...

I got a BA in Economics after which I went back to Karachi. I went back to the States after few years to get MBA. My family, which was based in Karachi, was poor by American standards and they could afford expenses for one year only. I had to beg, borrow, steal and work my *** off to complete...

Actually no as far as India is concerned. Russia has launched an illegal invasion of Ukraine. Western powers have condemned Russian invasion and put sanctions on Russia which is the right thing from a moral perspective. In contrast to Western response, India is dancing on the grave of innocent...

Imagine if this was around AD 1000 and Mahmud's army was poised to enter "Hind" on the way to raid Somnath. What would be the equivalent of Somnath raid today? India has around USD 500bn in reserves but most of it is represented by digits in global central bank accounts such as balances held at...

Let's say your car has a brake problem and you give it to a neighboring mistry to fix it. Mistry takes your money but does f'all. You pick up the car and drive to work but meet accident on the way because of brake failure. Car gets fixed due to insurance but two years later, break problem arises...

Ask yourself, would enemy be happy when Pak grows at a high rate or low? Rather ironically, instability arises in Pak when country achieves high economic growth rate which is what happened under Ayub, Musharraf and IK. But now, when the country is the verge of financial collapse, awam shrugs...

Bugoff retarded Indian. Pakistanis might be down but will never be desperate enough to associate with Indians.

This is a very important topic. Pakistan is in financial distress - the second time a nuclear power finds itself in this position. First instance was Russia in the late nineties. NATO fostered Russian version of PDM upon Russia in early nineties after which the western financial hitmen went to...

Oil is an asset for Norway and curse for Nigeria. Pak population can be an asset or curse depending on which way elite takes the country. I see no discussion in Pakistan on how to meet demographic challenge other than boomer uncle solution which is belt tightening which wont work in Pakistan as...

This is a very good point. Neighbouring countries have been able to control population growth because women enter the workforce which automatically translates into lower family sizes and higher material quality of life. In Pakistan, especially in backward parts, due to social norms, women don't...