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Indeed. The peace deal might either unravel soon or bring the US and Taliban back to the table for a short dialogue. Personally I think there is a need for a series of dialogues between the US and Taliban. Though each time they meet it might be bad news for Ghani regime.

This indeed appears to be the case right now. Ashraf Ghani is withholding Taliban prisoners on the condition Taliban break ties with Pakistan, which is unlikely to happen. Ghani's attitude may be on India's behest or maybe others as well and this could indeed sabotage the deal. But if the...

The peace agreement appears to be shrouded in mutual mistrust. Restrain may be possible though, provided the Taliban and Ghani Government can also establish a peace process between themselves. At present, a lot of stakeholders are left out, which includes US' NATO allies, Ghani Government...

Generally speaking, such statements by the top military officials in India (or even elsewhere) are usually geared towards extracting additional budgetary payments and more hardware from the political leadership. In India its the political leadership and civil bureaucracy that processes and...

Agree with the first half. For the second, by previous, I meant the current (tayar ho!). I said "previous" in relation to Ali Zafar's new one. The ethical thing for Ali Zafar would have been to support "tayar ho!" But instead, he threw ethics in the trashcan. What he has now come out with...

The first one is exponentially better and energetic. IMO that one should, in fact, be the permanent anthem for PSL. I would hate to see it discarded. Additionally, this anthem should not have been made. Its lack of energy aside, there is no goodwill in its making.

Nice of you to bring this up. I have tried the Windows series, MacOSX series, and Ubuntu operating systems. The first two I still operate on my Dell Laptop & MacBook Pro, respectively. There was a time when I would vehemently argue in favour of MacOSX but not now. Windows 10 is pretty good...

ISPR should have the Abhinandan scene cut out

There was a time when PTV would make great military dramas. Nishan-E-Haider series, Sunhere Din, Alpha Bravo Charli, etc, were classics. All of them capture the essence of military life. Give a show to private media channels they make a love story with over the top jingoism.

That's a verbal AMRAAM right there and on the target. No matter how many concrete evidences we present the Indians will remain in their blissful ignorance. They need something to soothe their wounded egos, be it a lie.

TBH, since the joint PAF & PN airshow held in Karachi sometimes back subsequent airshows have been slightly lacklustre. The show was not punctual as before. But there were some good flight displays today. The opening by three F-16s was awesome. They seemed much angrier then before if you know...

They are like "shaam ki akhbaar" (evening newspaper).

You forgot the helicopter (no matter who shot it down).

But mature states have patience. They calculate themselves and the enemy before initiating a conflict. We do not have resources for any military misadventure. Balakot cannot be held as a template for India's incompetence nor can 27th Feb action be held as Pakistan's superiority, not in the...

I agree with almost all that you have said. But we can all have wishful thinking. Its a dream to see Pakistan with reduced dependency on bikes.

Best time to act like a mature state.

How do they know if the bags were being hoarded or were being held as reserves? Surely you don't expect sugar mills to sell all their stock in one go and wait for the next sugarcane cultivation season to produce a new batch of sugar? It takes 12 months for sugarcane to mature. Plus, as this is...

Almost all dents in my vehicle are due to motorcycles. Its a nuisance. It's one industry I would not mind seeing coming to an end. We need to improve our public transport system, reduce the number of cars, and eliminate motorcycles (except for commercial purposes like deliveries).

While I do not see any reason to reverse engineer R-77 and R-73, given the fact that the American and Chinese systems seem to be performing better, I do believe that we lack an indigenous technical base for developing A2A missiles (and medium-range SAMs) and that we should invest in such...

Additionally, Japan had already lost. They would have surrendered in a matter of weeks if not days even if the US had NOT detonated nukes on them.