Pakistani Blogs

With an Ivy League education, a quiet charm, and two acclaimed novels that expertly explore the dissonance of a global world, Mohsin Hamid is the face of a literary flowering in Pakistan. The 38-year-old writer — an alumnus of Princeton and Harvard Law School — chucked a job with consulting firm McKinsey in London to return to Lahore to write. Lahore and the velvet lifestyles of its elite ...

Individual or national dreams can only be built with planning and right course of actions. If someone is keen to build a house, He will first think about his budget, determine the location to buy a plot, its size, its design, covered area, choice of the contractors etc His long list may have hundreds of questions, some of them even riddled by skeptics about the dirty business tricks, official ...

The Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, on his visit to Saudi Arabia made the surprise offer of dialogue to Pakistan on all issues ranging from Kashmir, Indus Water Treaty to Terrorism. This Indian pronouncement within days after scuttling the Secretary-level talks in Delhi is really baffling. Both India and Pakistan entered the Delhi talks under immense US pressure. Indian insistence ...

In the era where communication panorama is changing fast and furious and have made distances ever shorter this news about the Indian authorities alerting mobile subscribers to avoid calling Pakistan comes as a distress. The Daily Mail gives out the details.

Of all the world’s potential hotspots, one of the most unlikely is tucked into the folds of the Himalayas. It is a slice of ground that is little more than frozen rock fields and soaring peaks that is decidedly short on people, resources and oxygen. But for the past year it has been a worrisome source of friction between India and China, including incursions by Chinese troops, the wounding of ...

It is fascinating to watch the Indian propaganda machine come into full play as it is a field in which India excels unlike in the realm of dialogue and peace where India has always been found wanting as the neighbourhood will testify - from the small neighbours to China. Once again, instead of seeking to move towards substantive peace through resumption of dialogue with Pakistan, we are ...

اف کیا مصیبت ہے یار۔ ایک تو سارا دن کام کام اور بس کام۔ مجھے تو لگتا ہے بابا جی یہ مقولہ صر ف میرے لئے کہہ کے گئے ہیں اور سب کو رٹوا کے گئے ہیں کہ اس ڈفر کے ساتھ ”چنگی“ کرنا۔ کام تو چلو کام لیکن دفتری اوقات کے بعد اتنی [...]

Will India talk to Pakistan and have a meaningful dialogue to resolve long-standing disputes between the two countries? The question is vital for the peaceful co-existence of nuclear armed neighbors and for the future strategic geo-political posturing that involves American-Chinese relations. The new world global order is going to be shaped in the political landscape of South Asia with India ...

In the recent geopolitical front the development of friendship between Saudi Arab and India is being looked at very closely. Indians got an overwhelming welcome by the Saudi’s; the entire royal cabinet was present at the airport to welcome the Indian P.M; an honor previously enjoyed by China and France only. Such a start to [...]