Category: DAWN EXCERPTS
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Faces of Pakistan By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Flip through the DAWN and it will bring forth a few home truths. Pakistan is back to best at what it does – fighting wars it cannot win with a begging bowl. During the high voltage Afghan crisis, Pakistan was riding a tiger. It put the Taliban in power and left 42 million Afghans in…
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Happiness is a Pakistani State of Mind by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Till last month Pakistan was the kingmaker. After all it had put the Taliban in the Afghan throne. It was sitting in cloud nine. Their PM , their foot in the mouth Foreign minister and that mousy NSA were imploring the world to recognise Taliban or else….till the Taliban said that Pakistan International Airlines would be…
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Why Imran Khan is Called Taliban Khan by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Have you ever wondered why the Imran Khan, the PM of Pakistan is called Taliban Khan? Well the answers are there in all the cartoons drawn by Pakistanis. However if pictures have not conveyed the truth, read the excerpts from articles written by Pakistanis themselves. Very clearly Imran Khan is made from a…
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The Five Cancers Of Pakistan
When we think of Pakistan the pictures which come to mind are its economy, nuclear weapons, terrorism, politicians, elite, Army, frontline status, Afghanistan, CPEC and so on. That is scratching the surface. Actually these are only the symptoms. The diseases are deep rooted and slowly taking the state into anarchy. In my opinion, Pakistan…
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ANATOMY OF A U TURN
As I keep reading DAWN, I come across some thought provoking articles. I am sharing them with you. Gives you an insight into this troubled frontline nation which prided itself on the terrorists it produced as national assets rather than investing in vaccines like a weak ‘Endya’. Like always there is nothing original in these…
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GABRANA NAHIN IN PAKISTAN
Sometime last year I stopped writing articles on Pakistan…it is so confusing… better to let Pakistanis speak about their plight…well… If I were a Pakistani I would be wondering….no water, no food, no oil, no vaccines, no job, no security,…..increasing debt, Chinese all around…this is a living hell… I want to leave the country…where do…
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PAKISTAN IN CANCER WARD
As I was reading DAWN, I came across some thought provoking articles. I am sharing them with you. Gives you an insight into this troubled frontline nation which prided itself on the terrorists it produced as national assets rather than investing in vaccines like a weak ‘Endya’. Like always there is nothing original in these…
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PAKISTANI VIEWS OF THEIR OLIVE BRANCH – DEJA VU
Like earlier articles of this genre, this is also a collection of excerpts from articles and opinions of Pakistanis.You may like to go to the link provided to get an idea about the whole article. EARLIER ARTICLES STATE OF PAKISTAN PAKISTAN INTERNALISING PAKISTANS SOCIETAL FRACTURE PAKISTANI INSIGHTS NAYA PAKISTAN NAYA ANARCHY A DAY IN THE…
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THE GENOCIDE – PAKISTAN CONTINUES WITH, CHINA ABETS, BANGLADESH CANT FORGET, USA CANT REMEMBER AND THE BALOCH FEARS
VISTAS FROM YESTERDAY AND IMAGES OF TOMORROW The Genocide the U.S. Can’t Remember, But Bangladesh Can’t Forget …. the Rwandan genocide, or the Holocaust, or the killing that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia, the genocide in Bangladesh that ended 45 years ago this week has largely slipped out of public awareness—even though the upper estimate…
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PAKISTANS OLIVE BRANCH : GABRANA NAHI BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
IMRAN : “Kashmir Is The Lone Irritant Between India And Pakistan”. ME : “Renounce It. Hand it back to India! Ghabrana Nahi.” After the LOC ceasefire, the next move in the Indo Pak chessboard is the olive branch being extended to India. Imran Khan spoke recently of necessity of India taking the first step, the Kashmir issue…
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