Archive for the 'Dictators' Category

15 Aug 2010

Pakistan, a Saga of Misrule

by Anwaar Hussain Every year for the past about nine years, the following article is run by the TS with only a date change. Alas, nothing else has changed for Pakistan. It is the same old story of the same old wine in the same old bottle except with a poisonous dash of religious bigotry [...]

01 Jul 2010

My Name is Ozymandias, King of Kings

By Anwaar Hussain While the American colonial goliath lies wheezing at the callused feet of its adversaries in Afghanistan, its commander General Stanley McChrystal has been fired by President Obama for his indiscrete comments to the media. Not many tears are being shed on the general’s fall. Almost everyone who is any one in Washington [...]

02 Mar 2010

The ‘Happening Place’

By Kamran Shafi “PAKISTAN is the most happening place in the world where there is never a dull moment.” So pronounced the Commando to a “packed audience” at Chatham House in London, to much laughter and mirth. ‘Happening place’ did the man call our poor and bleeding country that is reeling under the onslaught of [...]

19 Nov 2007

On Savage Seas

‘By Anwaar Hussain This piece is neither an attempt at defamatory lampoon nor a noxious ridicule of General Musharraf’s actions. It is with a heavy heart indeed that one pens these lines. With heavy heart because one is a personal witness to the qualities of head and heart of the esteemed general. For those qualities [...]

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