Tale of Two Sparrows India was once the golden sparrow. Pakistan emerged from that same bird. Today Pakistan is the injured sparrow nearly eaten by cats. India is reclaiming its original identity…
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Pakistan Is a New Iran in Making
(Part 11) America Has Embraced the Jinx of Pakistan In geopolitics, a “jinx” forms when a system is so unstable that anyone who interacts with it gets damaged even without harm being…
International Ramifications of Pakistani Jinx
(Part 10) Pakistan does not have any history. It killed the history. It has a gravitational field. Like a black hole, everything it pulls, vanishes inside it. A jinx is not a…
How to Survive the Pakistani Jinx?
(Part 9) Exceptions to the Jinx Pakistan’s tragedy is not only political or institutional. It is conceptual. Pakistan is not merely a state; it is an idea that constantly outlives, outgrows, and…
Run from Pakistan
(Part 8) Pakistan’s Extended Jinx If the founders and rulers of Pakistan suffered, one might expect diplomats, loyalists, and ideological defenders to escape the pattern. They did not. Pakistan’s political gravity does…
Why Pakistan is a Jinx for its Rulers?
(Part 7) Pakistan is a jinx. Anyone who defends idea of Pakistan eventually dies in pain, in violence, or in both. Those who shielded it, justified it, or invested in it met…
The Engineered Design of Decline of Pakistan
(Part 6) Zia: The Perfect Antagonist of Pakistan Pakistan was born with a built-in contradiction. Its founding idea was not nation-building but nation-separation. Its identity defined in opposition to India, not in…
My Requiem to a Lost Civilisation called Pakistan
(Part 5) A Requiem to Pakistan Pakistan to me was East Punjab. An enigmatic place from where my grandparents came. They felt betrayed. They could not understand why they had to move….
Cognitive Decline in Pakistan is Shocking
(Part 4) Pakistan After the Epistemological Collapse Societies function on cognitive ability to perceive reality and truth from myriad web of political bias or propaganda. If a society loses this ability, it…
IT Sector’s Negligible Contribution in Pakistan.
(Part 3) Why IT Industry Cannot Revive Pakistan? The population of a country is the main element of its national power. It can become an asset once it is skilled. Unskilled population…
What is the Future of Pakistan?
(Part 2) Trajectory of Pakistan Countries have armies but Army of Pakistan has a country to exploit, to sustain from and to extract. Army runs all types of businesses in Pakistan under…
Pakistan, A Land that was India.
(Part 1) A Land Once Called India. Pakistan is no longer familiar to this generation of Indians. The assumption of familiarity survives as historical reflex, not lived knowledge. India and Pakistan may…
Where is Global Hub of Terrorism?
The White House Meeting: USA is at war with terror. It is fighting terror since 9/11. Its partner is Pakistan. That is the country where 9 out of 10 terrorists are trained….
Similarities Between Pakistan and USA
Surprising Parallels: Observable Similarities Between Pakistan and USA It’s a provocative thought: two nations as seemingly disparate as Pakistan and the United States sharing a surprising number of observable similarities. Beyond the…