What Produced TTP And Other Terror Groups?
By Samuel Baid United States former Secretary of States Hillary Clinton must have sounded like a voice in the wilderness when she warned Pakistan against rearing poisonous snakes in its backyard. By these snakes she obviously meant terrorists in the garb of Islam. They project Islam as a face of terrorism. This is more […]
Sectarian Divide in Pakistan
By Samuel Baid From the Karachi newspapers in the early 1970s, one gets an impression that there was harmony between Shias and Sunnis. To some extent, it was reflected in the matrimonial advertisements in the Urdu newspapers. Some of them said: “we are cultured people from UP (India). Gentlemen from Punjab and Kashmir should […]
A 150 Years Old Hindu Temple Disappears Under Nose of Police in Karachi
Despite all the hue and cry, the crime of kidnapping young Hindu girls to force them become Muslims to marry Muslim men goes on and so goes on destruction of Hindu temples to make them become shopping malls. Last month (July) two heinous crimes took place in Karachi within the space of about more than […]
TLP Targets For Coming Elections
By Samuel Baid Tehrik-e-Labbaik, Pakistan (TLP) seems to have made anti-Ahmadiyya campaign in Punjab as its election campaign this year end. The TLP is the re-christened name of Tehrik Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA), an organization of Barelvi fanatics who rose from the grave of Mumtaz Qadri, who had been executed for killing Governor […]
Revolt brewing up in Gilgit Baltistan
By Samuel Baid A fish jumps out of a frying pan for freedom, but, alas, it falls into the fire. This is the tragic story of the people of Gilgit – Baltistan. The British, when they held Gilgit on lease from Maharaja Hari Singh of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, treated the locals as […]
No Near End of Political mess In Pakistan
By Samuel Baid The Army seems to be cooking political khichri in the messy Kitchen of Pakistan. It first raised Imran Khan to the Prime Minister’s post. Then a year before he could complete his term, he was thrown out through opposition’s no-confidence vote with the Army’s backing. The opposition called the ‘Pakistan Democratic […]
Paying Through The Nose For Their Watery Grave
By Samuel Baid Kabooter bazi, as some Urdu newspapers in India described human smuggling a few years ago, has been a big money spinner in Pakistan- less for visible agents but more for invisible high-ups in the government and foreign embassies. This racket is lucrative because it seems every Pakistani is dying to leave this […]
Lal Masjid
By Samuel Baid In Pakistan’s federal capital Islamabad stands about a four-decade old mosque that preaches against the state, its democracy and constitution and holds its establishment and judiciary in terror. It is Lal Masjid or Red mosque which came on the scène in the mid – 1980s when then military dictator Gen. Ziaul Haq […]
Pakistan and the IMF
By Samuel Baid If it defaults on its debts like Sri Lanka, Pakistan has already sketched the face of the culprit- the IMF or the International Monetary Fund. The country’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said “Geopolitics is behind a halted loan programme so that Pakistan defaults”. Dar made this statement while addressing a Parliamentary committee […]
Return of Nawaz Sharif
By Samuel Baid A cat is said to have nine lives. In Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif can say a Prime Minister can survive a plan to hang him and two long exiles- one forced by the then ruler and one voluntary- to bounce back from London to become his country’s Prime Minister a fourth time. The […]