The recent strategic security pact between Afghanistan and India has, with immediate effect, defeated Pakistan Army’s past, current and future domestic, regional and international designs. The Pakistan Army has lost its power. To justify its extravagant existence in a poor country, Pakistan Army declared India its enemy. To generate cash through international extortion,...

Setting up semi-urbanized military outposts under a UN mandate in the failed states may achieve the following: 1. Quick, less expensive and more effective response to terrorist threats. 2. Elimination of piracy in the oceans. 3. Securing natural resources. 4. Ensuring the continuation of a conducive environment for global trade. 5. Providing a base to launch relief operations...

In Pakistan’s domestic politics, its army’s role and clout remains unchanged. The army lords over the country, its resources, it politicians and its people. The Pakistan People’s Party-led coalition government worked hard to keep the army happy. The army got what it wanted; an ever-increasing military budget, a final say in the foreign policy, plots of...

It is time, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, fires the Chief of the Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvaiz Kayani, and the top officials at the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Mr. Gilani is also required to file a First Investigation Report (FIR) at the nearest police station against Kayani and the ISI bosses for the murder of 3,400 Pakistanis; these...

Around 700 million Indians relieve themselves out in the open, not in a toilet. They do it along the railroad tracks, by the roadside or out in agricultural fields. Estimating two pounds per person per day, it adds up to 1.4 billion pounds of human fecal matter deposited on ground every day. With the rain, this huge pile of toxins, germs, bacteria and viruses moves right...

The people of Pakistan are enslaved by their public servants who have turned themselves into the masters of the masses. These servants of the people of Pakistan can be elected or, otherwise. The following fall in the category of the elected servants: 1. The president of Pakistan. 2. The prime minister of Pakistan and the members of his cabinet. 3. The members of the national...

The act of murder-suicide is a product of psychological disorders. However, as terrorism becomes a major issue on the international scene, psychology and psychiatry are two major tools which are not part of the scientific and technological arsenal being used in the offensive against terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In March, 2000, The New York Times published parts...