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Pakistanis would gladly support a large defence budget that goes into defence procurement, maintenance, and operations -- not defence housing authority (DHA). Yes, we know there are separate income streams for DHA, but that lends to other problems, such as: generals (on public exchequer)...

The U.S. knows that IK isn't going to fundamentally alter Pakistan's stance vis-a-vis U.S. interests. If anything, the U.S. knows that -- at the bare minimum -- IK would carry out any IMF reform, pave the way for FDI, and tightly align Pakistan's security interests with US strategic goals in the...

The status-quo establishment draws from every region and socio-economic group. It's not Punjabis vs. Sindhis vs. Muhajirs vs. Pashtuns and so on, but an elite versus everyone. However, when society starts seeing failure after failure, they start looking at the elite; in turn, the elite deflects...

Bro, ultimately, the fact that we established British institutions is now coming to haunt us. Our forefathers put Pakistan on the map, but they didn't create the nation that should be Pakistan. Rather, they brought in the same colonialist institutions and showrunners who oppressed our lands for...

IMO...Yes. However, India's decision-makers need to align on whether they actually want to design and build their own NGFA. With the Tejas, it had seemed that the IAF would keep pushing the goalpost each time HAL/DRDO reached a milestone. Coincidentally, these delays happened when the IAF...

Formation lights. Helps make aircraft visible at night or in poor weather conditions.

Yep. I know 40-50-year-old people who've been working at warehouses to get their kids through BSc undergrad and PharmD school. Sadly, Canada still has some structural issues preventing it from even harnessing Canadian-trained healthcare professionals. The latter are increasingly getting jobs in...

The next big economic boom is in health and senior care. It's sadly still tough for foreign-trained pros to get work, but if you can get your kids on the right track (medicine, pharmacy, nutrition, etc), they'll do fine.

Qur'an tells us to obey Rasul'Allah (SAW), and Rasul'Allah (SAW) didn't say anything about the moon being present or not. He (SAW) said: if you can't see it -- even due to overcast -- then you let the month complete. The ones who insist on moonsighting are focused on staying sincere to...

Islamically, a revolution could only happen if there's a rival establishment to take down the old guard. Rasul'Allah (SAW) established a parallel order in Madina before systematically taking over the other Arab tribes. In fact, when you look at the American Revolution, French Revolution, Soviet...

Rasul'Allah (SAW) said if you can't see the moon due to overcast, then you complete the month. So, let's say calculations tell you that the moon is present, but due to overcast you can't see it, what opinion would you follow?

Moonsighting isn't the issue. The problem is that in Indo-Pak, they literally did it after the month preceding Ramadan (Sha'ban) ended. Rasul'Allah (SAW) said that if you can't see the moon at the end of the month of Sha'ban, then you let Sha'ban run to 30 days. That's why most other regions...

It's an absolute disgrace seeing the Pakistan Army do the same thing in Pakistan as the Indian Army in Kashmir.

One other dumb thing about the moonsighting drama in Indo-Pak is that it happened after the 30 days of Sha'ban. So, as a result, these losers got the entire region to start fasting a day later than everybody else.

The ones with the lighter shade nose cone are actually overhauled aircraft. Prior to their first major overhaul, these airframes also had dark nose cones.

Not vindicating the establishment, but PTI/IK isn't the solution. If he returns to power, we'll see more of the same, but with different people in charge. I know it's unpopular, but I'll say it here; if IK returns, he'll have his supporters in the Army and Courts, but that doesn't mean the Army...

True, but that's a wealth distribution issue. Let's say, for argument's sake, the US was egalitarian for all that time and treated black Americans fairly. In that scenario, more of the wealth would've been in the hands of black Americans yet, in the macro sense, the US still would've had a...

When I talk about "looking for handouts and easy money" in Pakistan, I'm not talking about the actual poor. Still, the majority of our population is unaccounted for due to longstanding feudal and tribal dynamics. Those people have zero say in their own personal lives, much less about the economy...

Where did I say it wasn't a factor? I said it was a factor, but not the cause. Not having women in the workforce didn't help, but that wasn't the reason why Pakistan economically torpedoed itself. When you... Destroy the industry that was capable of value-added exports (i.e., manufacturing)...

Fundamentally, the countries that economically succeed do so by having productive labour. This often does involve adding women to the workforce, and that does help in making labour (for FDI, exports, etc) more attractive from a cost standpoint. But that in itself isn't the cause for economic...