Owais Mughal A friend of mine sent me this photo yesterday and it makes me smile every time I look at it. Text on first line is cut but still readable. The photo is apparently signboard of a cell phone SIM card selling store with the message: “Mobile cards of Jazz, PTCL, Paktel, Warid and […]

Guest post by Haider Mullick When Senator Barack Obama advocated unilateral military action against Pakistan, if the Pakistani Army refused to act first on actionable intelligence, he was referring to President Musharraf’s so-called aloofness from this issue in Pakistan. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded promptly and forcefully; it termed the senator’s remarks “irresponsible” and […]

Adil Najam What follows below is a repost. I had originally written this on July 19, 2007 after bomb blasts in Hangu, Hub and Kohat, which had themselves followed at the heels of blasts in Islamabad. Today, we just had two blasts in Rawalpindi with more than 15 people already being reported dead. The continuing […]