Notes in Anguish

According to a report in The Intercept [April 23, 2024], last month Sen Chuck Schumer of N.Y called Mr Masood Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, and advised him to warn the government in Islamabad, not to kill Imran Khan. For anyone with just half a brain, it would be clear that this warning was not… →

Like Popeye the Sailor, with whom the standard operating procedure is to pop in an extra can of spinach when confronting an especially formidable opponent, it appears that the High Command doubled its intake of Fauji Cereals to prepare for By-Elections on 21 April. Up to this point, it was believed that, as an exercise… →

The first step towards containing and then treating a malady lies in its identification, followed by its dissection to see how far it has traveled and the areas to which the infection has spread. On nearly every subject, there may be a thousand contending views in Pakistan, but no matter where one stands, there is… →

When a nation is taken down, each successive regime takes it a few rungs lower. Each such step leaves its institutions progressively more degraded, its administration made less effective, and its people subjected to increasing injustice and to added pain. However, the greater tragedy of this downward spiral is that ground lost in the slide… →

On March 18, the Pakistan Air Force was compelled to strike 5 targets in Afghanistan. This would not have happened had it not been for a truck bombing in Pakistan on March 16 by elements of the TTP, who are afforded sanctuary by the Afghan government. Where will things go from here? I will answer… →

Traditionally the institution of pivotal importance to our army was the unit to which one belonged. This was true whether one was a General or a Jawan. This was their spiritual, as well as their physical center. They belonged to the unit, as it belonged to them. This was a legacy which they shared in… →

On Friday, Feb 23, 2024, 2-month-old Mahmoud Fattouh, became the youngest starvation martyr of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, thousands of Gazans were trying to hold on to dear life by consuming one daily meal of animal feed. So far the most telling protest against this Genocide was the Dec 1, 2023 self-immolation of… →

There is much confusion about these elections. To get clarity on many aspects of these elections, they need to be dissected and studied separately. This done, clarity is very easy to come by. It is very easy to see that these elections were held because of the high regard in which Asim Munir and his… →

The short answer to this question is “Absolutely, it will.” And it will affect Pakistan because this will be an event which may well define this century. But why will Israel invade Lebanon? The answer to this question is that it is compelled to do so because of the compulsions of the Jewish mind as… →

There is absolutely no doubt left in the minds of the people of Pakistan that the U.S was fully involved in the toppling of Imran Khan’s government in April 2022. There is similarly no doubt in popular thinking that this regime change was a disaster for Pakistan so mammoth, that its consequences will be very… →

While our High Command was spreading pain among us, also bringing us immeasurable shame, for the first time the people of Pakistan banded together to gift us immense pride. This they did, by the way they voted on Feb 8 despite all the odds. The discipline and commitment they exhibited during the process, watered, and… →

The Gaza genocide seems to have entered its final phase. Palestinians, driven south to “safe” zones on Israeli “advice”[ more than a million of them] got collected in the southernmost town of Rafah. Conveniently corralled there for Israel’s Genocidal purposes, they are now being massacred. Genocide is not new to humans, but this one is.… →