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Didn't have any idea of avatar, so I put a Pakistan cricket fan I found in an article... ^^

- Never said the contrary. - That's what I found the 'classification' weird. - I don't think that. Peoples are living in these big cities, business is not affected by what NWFP witnesses. - The vast majority of Pakistan feel Pakistanis first, whether in Karachi, Lahore, Mirpur or Peshawar.

I was talking of Ayyub Khan's political genius, the way he handled affairs, not the total hypocrite mismanagement of East Pakistan which was nearly systemic. And that was quite a detail, the main point being that North India-Pakistan was far from being the most developed area of the then British...

47 million peoples belong to the middle/upper-class in a population of 180 millions. My point was just that you don't see these numbers in the other 'failed state' countries, whether Iraq, Somalia or Afghanistan. About the political stability, I think you don't get it: the likes of Karachis...

I don't want to go in an rant against Indians, but what are you winning by being Indians instead of Pakistanis in Australia ? I live in Belgium, don't know a lot of South Asians, but I've never seen a single Pakistani passing off as an Indian amongst the few I know, and on a personal note will...

"... Indeed, there are now around 30 million Pakistanis who are considered to be in the middle class with an average income of $10,000 annually, while some 17 million are now bracketed with the upper and upper-middle classes." (Irfan Husain, The rise of Mehran man, 17 April 2010) That's not...

What 'infrastructure' ? Even during the British India, today's Pakistan (and North India in general) was the most backward place, thanks the Punjabi-Sindhi-Pashtun patriarchal and conservative culture. As you know, in North India, Rajputs princes kept their royal privileges, and Sir James...

If by Mullahs you mean the Mawdudî-like thought (Jamaat-e-Islami & all), it's interesting to note that he was, firstly, against Pakistan's creation as he thought putting all Muslims from Indian subcontinent will block Islam's expansion amongst India's Hindus. And 'Islamism' is not a part of...

To quote Dennis Kux: Pakistan is a flawed, not failed, state. A State with independent judiciary, strong anti-establishment media, nascent democracy, not-that-bad economy (despite floods and terrorism), a quasi-rule of law, etc is not a 'failed state' in the same manner as Somalia, for instance...

Karachi has always been home to the Muhajirs who, in their great majority, were the Central India's Islamic elite; so they were, before migrating to Pakistan, some kind of 'bourgeoisie', different from the rest of the population, and characterized by a totally foreign cultural paradigm. They're...

Self-consolation from... US Ambassador to India, right ? And USA needs Pakistan for the Afghanistan episode, that's a fact.

Because you really think that Musharraf & co had the choice ? 'Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf said in his memoir released Monday he had no choice but to switch support from the Taliban to the US-led war on terror or face an American "onslaught" and a possible Washington-backed Indian...

Afghan Talibans aren't interested by Pakistan at all; for TTP, their whole propaganda is based on American attacks, and other sympathetic things, so if America departs, TTP will perhaps still be there, but with no more local support, as peoples are actually fighting in order to revenge their...

The USA under Einseinhower (1957-1960) gave more aid to India than to Pakistan; If Kennedy decided to economically help Pakistan instead of India, it was after the Nehru's visit (November 5-15th 1961), who, already a part of the Non-Aligned Movement, was the 'worst Statesman' that Kennedy has...

Don't think so: the USA is already in a deep mess concerning the Afghanistan fiasco, a 'traditional' war would be pure suicide.

Dawood may have fled Pakistan, say intelligence reports Some contradiction in the air ? Or are his houses in Karachi, Pakistan, but not the man himself ?

That's just a brainless rhetorical diarrhoea, typical Christopher Hitchens egg-laying, that's all. Where is the argumentative consistency ? He's getting sexually over-excited on a baseless fantastical alliance, an hypothetical collaboration between Pakistan's establishment (hint: not the 'ya...

Just one question: why would have ISI and/or the Army have killed Saleem Shehzad now ? If someone literally accuses you of high treason, and that the said accusation is already available to the masses, why would you kill him days after ? What's the benefit, apart the media obviously pointing the...

'Wassup With pakistan? Any tom dick harry terrorist comes in group across the border and directly take on mighty pakistani army at their own Forward millitary posts ?' That was the arrogantly provocative and uselessly sarcastic part which wasn't needed at all. And, by the way, the check-post...

As per Express Tribune, Laskhar-e-Jhangvi has claimed the crime, the hero being a well-known Shiah of the Hazara community...