This Ramadan

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by Anwaar Hussain

Let us pause this Ramadan and ask ourselves a few questions. Who were we? What happened to us along the way? Where do we stand today? Which way are we going?

THE MONTH of Ramadan is here again. We Muslims will once again launch headlong into starving ourselves every day from dawn to dusk. In all our religious obligations we have become so ritualistic that the substance is almost forgotten and the form has been kindled into worship itself. We have become past masters at missing the woods for the trees.

Like all the Ramadans before, the prices of daily commodities are sure to sky-rocket. One is led to believe as if on a cue the fields have started to yield less, the cows to hide their milk and the hens to lay fewer eggs. The common man is left with just enough skin by the traders to re-grow for the next Ramadan. Read more



From Kabul to Baghdad: Dead Men Dancing

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by Anwaar Hussain

That Iraq will plunge into complete chaos is almost a foregone conclusion. With no infusion of money, no central leadership, no overseeing bureaucracy, no firm American commitment for rebuilding, and no self-sustaining industry, Iraq will plunge into an almost certain civil war.

From Kabul to Baghdad : Dead Men Dancing

ABDUL ALI Mazari, the warlord who commanded the Hizb-i-Wahdat group of Northern Alliance invented the monstrous ritual known as ‘dead men dancing’.The victims were usually Taliban prisoners but occasionally innocent bystanders caught up in the chaos. First, their heads would be chopped off. Petrol would then be poured down the holes in their necks. A torch would be applied to the fuel-blood mixture. Dancing to the tunes of Rubab (Afghan Guitar), Mazari’s troops would then cheer as the bodies burned and jerked in a macabre dance of death. Read more



The Crime at Beslan

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by Anwaar Hussain

Is it possible that a people who have lost everything may think they have nothing more to live for, that a parent, who sees his children blown to smithereens, loses love for others’ too? That it is blood revenge, however unpardonable, that governs this mindless violence rather than any thing else? Is it possible?

Let us state the obvious from the start without mincing any words. The horrifying and tragic death of hundreds of blameless human beings in the Beslan school tragedy, most of whom were innocent children, is barbaric, unparalleled, inhuman and unpardonable. It is a crime of heinous proportions and defies religion as equally as it does logic and rationality. Read more



Good Morning America

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by Anwaar Hussain

Iraq: Children bombed by US aircrafts

That the trauma they inflicted upon Iraq will live and grow on them too and will feed on their souls like only such demons do. That a sure accompaniment in their duffel sacks on their return journeys will be the mincemeat carcasses of their own innocent selves and certainly some plastic bags containing the remains of the American Dream.

‘’Good morning Vietnam’’…. in the midst of that grotesque war a supposedly friendly yet mindless greeting from a radio station to a people some of who would not live to see the sunset of the day. In a curious blend of comedy and horror, the Americans went into that country to liberate the Vietnamese and in the process bombed virtually every inch of it. They went in as friends but ended up murdering the hosts, a pattern that the US would continue to follow for decades to come. Read more



Pakistan…A Saga of Misrule

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by Anwaar Hussain

Why does the Pakistan Army intervene in civilian governance? The simplest answer to this question is because it can.

We are now well into 57th year of our existence. For most nation states, the age of innocence would have long passed by now. Having shed their baby fats by the time they reach this age, nations are supposed to have developed strong limbs, a healthy body and a powerful brain to command the body and limbs into efficient and productive actions. Also around this age, most nation states would have firmly established where they stand and where they are going. Read more



The Americans Should Have Known

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by Anwaar Hussain

They should have known that the wages of war were high for all and not just for the victims.

The Americans should have known that there is no stopping a man who believes he is right and is willing to die for that belief. Like the critical mass theory, if this belief is shared by a sufficient number then no amount of firepower brought to bear on such men is enough to snuff out their spirit. This is the gravest miscalculation made by the head honchos ruling the roost in the great United States of America. Like fools they have rushed in where angels fear to tread.

Even if the Americans were unwilling to listen to voices of sanity from across the world asking for caution and prudence, for their own interest they should have fed bits of historic facts into their super computers and asked for an answer. Read more









Anwaar’s articles appear simultaneously here at Truth Spring and at Soul Vibes in The Pakistan Tribune.


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