Once the best economy in S. Asia today ours is the weakest in ALL Asia. Once World Champs in Hockey, Squash, Cricket, we no longer rank in the first five. Poor education, indifferent health facilities etc, have reduced worker productivity to an all time low.

Why is Iran not reacting to the Israeli attack?
1. Iran has not completed work on its own nukes? 2.Lest it provoke an Israeli attack with newly acquired US deep penetration bombs on Iran’s nuclear facilities? 3.Bomb/nuke Iran into the Stone Age?
Pick one

The form 47 govt can’t last. A fair election is a must. But the bitter IMF medicine of agri income tax; tax on retail & wholesalers; removal of export subsidies; etc, means no elections for 2 yrs AND only after the 60% dirt poor given some sops. Tough days

What a failure the last two years have proved. Not a single diplomatic initiative comes to mind; nor a single scheme at home to enthuse the impoverished. Art, thought and writing was maimed, bent and twisted to serve the ends of propaganda. Horrible years.

According to Iskander Mirza “Democracy requires knowledge but illiterates know nothing. So who will save the people from themselves”?
The Umpire?
But instead of standing behind the stumps here the Ump chooses to bat.

I had sd a week ago that a war between Israel and Iran is ‘foreordained’. But what if Israel agrees to withdraw from Gaza, Hamas releases all hostages, Isr all Pal prisoners and America lifts sanctions on Iran. Will that be enough? Perhaps for now.

Ukr needs men not only bombs and shells to defeat Rus. So if you can’t/wont provide men why pretend tiny Ukraine can prevail. Because Biden feels what worked to undo the USSR will work v Russia. It won’t. Russia is a historical state not a product of WW2.

Had Iran nuclear weapons Israel could not have done anything so foolishly provocative as to bomb an Iranian diplomatic mission in a third country without fearing nuclear retaliation, if it came to that.

Time to pass a law making a 10 yr prison term mandatory for leaders who enter into contractual arrangements with other countries/companies that are on manifestly unfavorable terms, eg existing IPPs or growing crops like alfalfa, that are water intensive.

Some actions are so obviously wrong/reprehensible, nay, evil that their occurrence says it all. And none come to mind more readily than the closure of Panagas ( food centres and shelter homes) and Health cards for political reasons.

Once KSA used to be bold and forthright about the Kashmir dispute needing to be settled in accordance with UNSC resolutions which made it obligatory for Pak and India to hold a plebiscite. Now ‘bilateral talks’ is deemed sufficient even for the KSA. Sad

Justice Minallah has asked the Govt to satisfy the full court that there has been no interference in judicial functions, as alleged by the 6 Judges.
How can the executive disprove a fact; or the 6 judges renege on their accusations except by lying?

Exactly how much
are the Saudis going to fork out to help/ invest/lend/grant Pak. Is it $ 1 bl parked in a bank bl, $5bl in Reko Dig, $ 10 on a refinery because we have heard all these different figures but recd zilch ie $ 0 so far.

The 33rd report of the Sanctions Monitoring team of the UNSC conveys an alarming picture of the threat the TTP pose to Pak security and that these terrorists have the full backing of the TTA. That said, how could IK have been advised to allow them to return?

It’s not as if the MQM and the PPP are merely trading barbs it’s that one ( MQM) believes PPP rule will, actually has, rendered Sindh ungovernable. Alluding to the appt of the new IG izharul Hasan says ‘his appt brings joy to bandits from Kashmir to Karachi’

US Sec Yellen is yelling about China’s vast industrial capacity bankrupting the US. America was all for Free Trade when it suited America but now that Chinese productivity is better and America can’t compete US wants to restrict trade with China.

Pak will have a hard job convincing the world that the TTP is as great a threat as Daesh as the TTP does not operate outside Pak. Actually, the greatest threat to most countries is the new player on the terror scene, the Modi govt—20 murders thus far.

Wonder what happened to the $ 300–500 million dollar fence Bajwa promised to complete on the Afg Pak border to prevent terrorists from Afg crossing over? No body talks about that fence anymore which is proving as porous as a Karachi sewer in a storm.