Last Thursday, while working on some writing deadlines, I was switching channels on cable. On CNN they were promoting “Black In America, ” an exercise meant to boost ratings by making whites feel good by making blacks look bad, the marketing strategy of the mass media since the 1830s, according to a useful book entitled [...]

The images of Corps Commander Peshawar Lieutenant General Safdar Hussain traveling to Shakai, South Waziristan, and embracing Naek Mohammad, the then enemy number 1,  and making a peace deal with him are still very vivid in our memories.  The main elements of the peace deal were that the tribal people will be granted amnesty [...]

We don’t have to look far to find who’s behind the stolen election in Iran.  One man alone has the authority to pull it off.  State thugs gun down an innocent young woman in plain daylight on the streets of Tehran?  It’s his doing. 

The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people but because of the silence of good people; said Napoleon. Words are more important than actions. What we do comes latter than what we say. Actions can be forgotten but words are ever living. The most painful thing [...]

US weapons have mysteriously landed in the hands of terrorists in Pakistan. Now we have the Al Qaeda leadership freely accessing the foreign media in Afghanistan saying it would use Pakistani nukes against America. What is the US up to with Al Qaeda? Post-9/11 the world has had a memory lapse over the US-Al Qaeda [...]

Pakistan since its inception some 62 years ago has never seen a stable phase. But never has been its existence as a nation been questioned as is done now a days. The situation is somewhat like that in 1971, during East Pakistan debacle, when Pakistan was brewing in war against its own people. Then the [...]

Author Haji Ahmad Thomson, a British convert to Sufi Islam – in his book Dajjal: The Emperor Without Clothes – wrote that there are three aspects of Dajjal: Dajjal the individual, Dajjal the world-wide social and cultural phenomenon, and Dajjal the unseen force. The author believes that before the Dajjal as an individual appears – [...]

Please see this picture closely because, for the life of me, I can’t get over Bilawal Bhutto accompanying his father to a high-level meeting with Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai. (Can you ever imagine Obama bringing one of his daughters to a meeting like this or, for that matter, Bush one of his)??? I know [...]

Do you think that Muslims were involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on WTC that took 3,200 lives on American soils?  If it so, then newspapers of 2001 carried different story, saying that all the pilots who collided their aircrafts with the New York building and Pentagon were from Arabs descent.  According to US think [...]

Pakistan cricket team has won a  20, 20 world  cup. No  doubt it is  a good  news and  has been a  source  of happiness for  many  Pakistani  particularly the  fans of cricket .  However they way this  victory is being  publicized it seems  too  preposterous .particularly  in the  present situation when   millions  people of swat  [...]