Archive for 'Pakistan'
Quantum Note: “Pakistan” Resolution Revisited
Posted on23. Mar, 2012 by drmuzaffar.
By Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal In retrospect, the words of the so-called “Pakistan” Resolution seem timid, almost submissive. They seem to have been written by those who were overwhelmed by the might of their colonial masters, but who were, nevertheless, bold enough to make a timid demand while remaining within the legal bounds of the British [...]
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Pakistan: Price of Freedom & Treacherous Elite
Posted on23. Mar, 2012 by Dr Shahid Qureshi.
By Dr Shahid Qureshi Coming from a family which migrated from Indian East Punjab into Pakistan in 1947, Pakistan day on 23rd of March every year use to be heavy and saddening for my late mother. She and her family paid the highest and ultimate price for Pakistan by sacrificing her father (my grandfather a [...]
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Pakistan Day & Armed Forces
Posted on23. Mar, 2012 by S M Hali.
By S. M. Hali On 23rd March 1940, the apex leadership of All India Muslim League assembled in Manto Park Lahore and passed a resolution for the creation of a separate sovereign state for Muslims of India. At that time, it was declared a false hope by some but within seven years under the charismatic leadership [...]
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Pakistan: Balochistan insurgency
Posted on21. Mar, 2012 by Asif H Raja.
It will extinguish like a damp squib By Brig Asif Haroon Raja Growth potential of a country devoid of natural resources remains seriously handicapped, but is less vulnerable to foreign intrigues and intervention. Conversely, a country rich in resources remains vulnerable to foreign intervention. Imperialist powers greedily searching for more resources mark the resource rich [...]
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Pakistan Day: Strange March 23 Celebrations
Posted on21. Mar, 2012 by Dr Mahboob A Khawaja.
View the Mirror By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. Pakistan and its moral, political and intellectual culture is being ruined and destroyed by those rulers who share nothing in-common with the masses. The princely rulers and the ordinary folks live far part in conflicting time zones, unable to find a meeting ground, and people paying for [...]
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23 March: Challenges and Response
Posted on21. Mar, 2012 by Gen Aslam Beg.
The threat to National Purpose, thus has become endemic, because United States has succeeded in achieving ‘Media Management goals’, and now is aiming at ‘Perception Management’ of the Pakistani nation. For this purpose, a huge sum of US$ 1.4 billion has been allocated by the US Congress, to be spent in Pakistan for ‘Institutional Support’. [...]
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Pakistan is a Geo-Strategic State
Posted on15. Mar, 2012 by Hamid Waheed.
In spite of all odds, opportunities keep propping for Pakistan By Hamid Waheed After 9/11, the great game for economic gains has once again emerged in this part of the world and brought Pakistan into lime light. Many think tanks and scholars label Pakistan as a nation on collapse and a failed state. Pakistan ranked number [...]
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BETRAYAL OF A COMMON BALUCH
Posted on10. Mar, 2012 by Khalid Iqbal.
By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal For a common Baloch, it has all along been a tale of deception and treachery. He has always been treated as a commodity, bought and sold at the whims of exploiting tribal chiefs. While the Baloch Sardars have had a history of enthusiastically selling land and people of [...]
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Seething lava of Balochistan
Posted on25. Feb, 2012 by Asif H Raja.
By Brig Asif Haroon Raja During the British rule of India, the rulers had demarcated the provinces not on ethnic lines but suiting their administrative convenience. Balochistan, which is an arid mountainous region in southwest Asia, consisted of two entities; one comprising of princely states of Kalat, Mekran, Kharan and Lasbela in the south and [...]
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THE BALUCHISTAN SQUEEZE
Posted on25. Feb, 2012 by Khalid Iqbal.
It is unfair to blame FC for all the woes of Baluchistan, while it has partial jurisdiction over only 5 percent of the area. IGFC Baluchistan has recently stressed for collective political efforts alongside socio-economic development to address the current precarious law and order situation. Although the present situation is largely a result of political [...]
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