By Anwaar Hussain I begin this piece with a solemn pledge that the scribe has not been bought by Zionists, Indians, Americans, or any combination thereof, for writing this piece, or ever for that matter. It is solely for the love of the fatherland that the following has been written. My intentions are sincere. If [...]

By Anwaar Hussain This one will be as painful to read as it was to write. There is this old method of hunting practiced in some parts of the world. It is called a fire-hunt. Two people are required. One goes ahead carrying a blazing torch (or a high powered flash light these days), while [...]

By Anwaar Hussain A blizzard of lies indeed flies every which way in the aftermath of Abbottabad strike. Lies have surely been told before, during and after the operation. The fact, however, stays that Bin Laden is dead. In a singularly unmatched stunt, in one clean, surgical and slashing strike, Bin Laden is taken out [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Meerwala is a small, dusty village in the mostly rural Muzaffargarh District in the south of Punjab province of Pakistan. This small, nondescript village has produced a personality whose name has been reverberating across the globe for some years now. The name of this person is Mukhtaran Bibi (also known as Mukhtar [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Everybody loves Raymond, the double slayer. The Pakistani Government ‘loves’ him to the extent that they are willing to bend the rules to grant him diplomatic immunity from prosecution for the twin killings that he committed in Lahore. They ‘love’ him for the large one-time dose of Manna, over and above the [...]

By Anwaar Hussain The religion that once rewrote the parameters of human civilization in three continents, whose mighty empire once spanned the globe from the Central Asian Steppes to the shores of Atlantic, today feels threatened by a peasant woman. Its adherents want to kill this woman, a Christian mother of five, for having supposedly [...]

By Anwaar Hussain The US says that Wikileaks disclosures are a crime. Since when has disclosure of a crime become a crime, wasn’t explained. Apart from the fact that the reaction of the United States’ Government borders on the ridiculous, it does remind one of that famous quote from the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and [...]