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It's not about "creating" a positive narrative. It is about writing what one, from their own perspective, believe was more important to highlight. You can have your opinion, appnay Riaz sahib can have his and I can certainly believe the good he did outweighed the bad. At the end of the day...

In a country where only the negative side of the coin is discussed to tarnish, not a bad idea to talk up positives. To err is human...can't expect everyone to be a farishta like the Sharifs, Zardaris and Khan sahib.

"An estimated 10,000 people attended the prayers, mainly retired and serving military officers, AFP news agency reported. A junior army officer at the site who asked not to be named said a gun salute was given to the former leader. Neither the army chief, prime minister or president were...

This is a false premise. Americans have worked with our armed forces since 1958. In this time, both sides have learned to deal with and also keep each other at arms length. The Americans don't need to put a leash around the CoAS of Pakistan. They do that to not only us, but everyone else in...

Lol, I can empathize with the Col sahib with a shoulder pad on which reminded me of all the bruising that comes with such work. I have had to rely on it a bit after firing a lot with my 12 bore to avoid bruising specially with the 3 inch shotgun shells.

Call it humanitarian support. Once the Afghans started moving to our tribal areas, the tribal areas were targeted. Pakistan was organically drawn in otherwise nobody in their right minds wanted to poke the Soviet bear. I am aware of all that has gone on. Including IK's foot in the mouth...

I think this analysis requires more nuance because this "slave mentality" binary deduction is oblivious of our own limited power potential and ground reality. Iran has no affinity with Pashtuns. We do. Second, comparing Pakistan to Iran is another bad comparison. They have a commodity that...

"Neutral" stance is a pipedream sold by ill-informed (at best) and cunning (at worst) politicians to a misled and confused population. You lost your neutrality due to our kinship with Taliban and also once the Taliban were given bases inside of Pakistan. So nobody was sold on this "neutral"...

So why even both singling one military ruler out in a sea of non-performers?

Depends on the glass half empty or half full perspective that one takes. The same criteria can be applied to every single one of Pakistani leaders and you will get mixed results.

What civil war? Terrorism is not "civil war". Let's have absolute clarity on this issue. TTP were/are clearly not the "Mujahideen" that we supported against Russians. None of these terrorists was even born when the Afghan jihad was going on. Anyone with confusion over this needs to revisit...

Do you think financial corruption does not happen in KSA? They would make Pakistan's financial corruption look like a bad joke.

Yara, khuda ka wasta. Don't let such nonsense perpetuate. There is not one officer in uniform worth his salt who would sit and let Indians do what they tried to do on Feb 26th without a response. This is not even up for debate. Just like no amount of bribing worked during the 1999 nuclear...

How do we know that Buzdar's nepotism did not lead to financial irregularities by his kin? With all the bakvas that ails our nation, I have arrived at the conclusion that corruption is a part of life in Pakistan as it is in the rest of 3rd world. It will only get cleaned up iteratively...

What are you referring to?

What amazes me is that vast majority of Pakistan is being informed for all the worse by these countless third rate "journalists" who probably would not even matriculate from high school. Basic things like pronunciation of the vernacular let alone angraizi, lack of depth of analysis...

The day Kashmiris in IoK themselves say they are fine staying with India, us Pakistanis will walk away from our Kashmir cause. The reality is that this will never happen. Just because you feed someone does not mean they are happy living under your chaudhrahat (fiefdom). I don't know who came...

100%. I have seen both side of the business (uniform and civil/corporate) and what you describe in terms of "favoritism" goes on everywhere because things by their very nature become "political" (not alluding to national politics, rather institutional for other members). As you have pointed...

I understand your sentiment but that is not true nor is it possible. Had it been possible then in the past 3 years of PTI rule, expat Pakistanis would have done their part to bridge the gap in our deficit. It did not happen even though the PTI government was flirting with the IMF this entire...

For the simple reason that domestic politics related trolling keeps on turning every single thread into a <political party> rant-fest. Please use Siyasat for that. For those claiming this is a power-trip, you are quite clueless as to the amount of trash that is being required to clean up along...