Notes in Anguish

Because of a huge legal shemozzle, a need has arisen for us lay persons to get our heads around how laws are supposed to be enacted in our country. Having heard any number of experts on the subject, it seems that the process begins by introducing a proposed legislation [a Bill] for discussion in the… →

The central problem of the current swirl of crises bedeviling Pakistan today has arisen out of one act. And that is the putting into power the most despised group of street thugs by our high command at the behest of a foreign power. This cost the army the support of the people, and the high… →

In the firmament of our judiciary, as Justice Amir Farooq continues to stand as a black hole from which no ray of justice escapes, Justice Babar Sattar has stunned the stygian gloom with light. Ruling on the detention of Shandana Gulzar and Shehryar Afridi under MPO rules, which is a convenient tool to dispense malice,… →

For sixteen months diligence competed with incompetence to rule Imran Khan out of politics. On Aug 5, 2023, diligence finally won out after injustice prevailed with the help of gross illegalities and Imran Khan, the only honest senior politician in our benighted land was sentenced for corruption and put behind bars. This was a job… →

For decades now there has been a debate among the people of Pakistan in which many of us have taken part. In short, this debate has been whether it was the politicians who failed Pakistan, or was it the army. Those who support the politicians blame the army for having repeatedly usurped power, or at… →

OF ALL HUMAN QUALITIES COURAGE IS OF THE GREATEST VALUE, FOR WITHOUT COURAGE THERE CAN BE NO TRUTH, AND WITHOUT TRUTH THERE CAN BE NO OTHER VIRTUE…..SIR WALTER SCOTT. Indeed, without truth there can be no morality. And without this inner discipline society cannot exist. Yet truth cannot be enforced, because falsehood which nullifies truth,… →

Sometimes a man speaks, and the world stands back and pays attention. This is what Judge Farrukh Farid of the Additional Sessions Court Islamabad did on Jul 22, 2023. He rendered judgement in two cases involving Imran Khan. He merely extended bail to him in both. This ought to have been an issue of insignificance,… →

For some days now Mr Azam Khan, ex-Principal Secretary to ousted P.M Imran Khan had been lost despite the best efforts of the police to find him. But yesterday it seems he resurfaced just long enough to give what was to have been a confessional statement. And then promptly he got lost once more. His… →

I ponder the consequences of the rise of our national debt, and think that in a mere three years we may reach a point where it may be beyond us to reimburse it. At this point I just can’t help thinking of Zardari and Nawaz Sharif and their gangs and where they have taken us.… →

It is said there are words which a man will give his life for. In 1944 Lt Hiroo Onada of the Imperial Japanese Army was introduced into the jungles of the Philippines. He was an intelligence officer. Whereas every other Japanese soldier was oath bound to die fighting rather than surrender, Onada was ordered to… →

Yesterday, Jul 9, 2023, was a bleak day for Pakistan on account of a piece of news broken by no less a person than our Prime Minister, the live lamented Mr Shahbaz Sharif himself. If bleakness could make itself be felt in an era of the present gloom, that should say something about this piece… →

The people of Pakistan are stunned and heart broken. They cannot understand why their army, instead of standing by them, chose instead to stand by the thugs and looters who always deprived and despoiled them. And especially when the same army, not too long ago, were themselves calling them thugs and looters that they are.… →