Notes in Anguish

They’ve risen from the holocaust, they’ve shrugged the Auschwitz ashes off. Their fortitude of centuries, broke at last their irons down, when from Hitler’s many camps, they in ragged limping lines, reached the land of Israel, and made an ancient desert bloom. Now far from being ostracized, aspirants to the White House throne, kneeling blessings,… →

I am writing this at the request of a friend who wanted to know, in as few words as possible, what is happening in Israel, why it is happening, and where this is likely to go. –The Zionist project in Palestine is a project of settler colonialism. In such projects a people foreign to a… →

The lay people of Pakistan have their rights enshrined in the Constitution, but usurped and eroded in practice. But the one right that could not be eroded was their right to arrive at analytical or instinctive conclusions with regard to how their state is actually being run. One of the things which most affects them… →

In 1970, as the Yahya Khan junta was considering elections in order to do democracy a favour, it was known that they would best like election results that promised a split mandate and a squabbling parliament. This was needed if the army was to retain its position of primacy at the top of the pyramid… →

The problem of the high command is very clear i.e that the cover of “regime change” supposedly brought about by the vote of “no confidence” took little time coming off, and what glared in its place was a criminal conspiracy by the high command at the behest of a foreign power, aided and abetted by… →

Ever since Mohammad Ali Durrani began running his political errands, hopes rose that a rapprochement between Imran Khan and the high command might be in the offing, and a subsiding of pain in which Pakistan was convulsed might be in sight. But on sober reflection it becomes clear that what we saw as rising hopes… →

So, finally little Ammar surrendered, lay down, and died. He was the son of Mian Ibad Farooq who is a committed PTI supporter. This qualified him as a fit victim of the government dragnet cast to pick up those to be charged for the May 9 farce. Apparently, the police broke into Ibad’s house more… →

” Zalmo Qazi Aa Raha Hai”, was one of the catchiest political slogans of Pakistan’s murky political history. Finally today, after more than thirty years, the Qazi has arrived, but in the process he has undergone a change of name from Qazi Hussain Ahmed, to Qazi Faez Issa. The Qazi who had crafted the slogan… →

On the morning of Aug 22, in the KPK village of Battagram, a cable car with eight passengers aboard was left dangling in midair, about 300 feet from a ravine floor, when two of its cables snapped. This was a scene of “suspended” tragedy just waiting to happen. Hopes of rescue rested only with the… →

Most of us are curious about how the future will pan out for us. And this curiosity increases in proportion with the uncertainty that surrounds us. Thus, I was driven to hearing an interview of an Indian astrologer, Nishant Bhardwaj, which I thought was worth sharing with you. I have transcribed this from urdu/hindi, and… →

As soon as the government fraudulently passed the “Laws” regarding the Official Secrets Act and the amendment to the Pakistan Army Act, and the same were notified, it lost no time charging Imran Khan on the “issue of the Cipher “. I do not know the specifics of these charges, but can guess them. So,… →

Dear Mr Zahid Hussain, let me refer to your article entitled ” Presidential indiscretion” published in Dawn on Aug 23, 2023. The substance of your article, against which I want to contend, and which lets the cat out of the bag, is contained in its title and the very first paragraph. So let me begin… →