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* Searching solution * !!
While I finished a lunch at Bar Be Que Tonight Islamabad with a family friend Honourable Col. Sardar Ahmed Yar Jang, who was about to leave for Umra and onwards to London to join his children, that I received this scholarly article that…
* Peace Maker * !!
A nation with no heroes remains not only leaderless but directionless as well. While in Mardan some time back , Honourable Tariq Khan, a seasoned and senior bureaucrat and family friend of Dr. Humayun Khan, complained to me why services of…
” The diplomat “
On 26th October at around 1830 hrs, accompanied by my only daughter, I called on Honourable Prince Akbar Zeb, the former Pakistan Ambassador to Canada now leading a retired life playing with his beloved grand child, the baby Prince Rayan.…
* History through lens * !!
This Photograph came from Imperial War Museums. Image file number IWM Q 6502. The picture was taken by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke during WW1.
This historic picture I dedicate to ace Photographer Honourable Arif Mehmood, whom I…
*Who rules KPK?* !!
This question will remain unanswered till the State responds to the pain and anguish of Pakistan Army 1st Commander - in-Chief's and the Wali of Swat's widow and now son less granddaughter from Swat, whose only son Prince Khurram, was…
* Protest for peace*!!
Various videos are in circulation on social media suggesting high handedness of the security apparatus operating in Swat that has resulted into the ongoing wave of protests by ordinary citizens.
In one such video, an undercover…
Swat situation : Is military operation needed again ?
The Switzerland of Asia is once again being projected in bad light like by vested elements who are exploiting and manipulating totally unrelated incidents in the recent past in Swat. It should be assessed that from becoming a hub of…
*Ablaze*!!
Exhausted and my energy run down by the last week's laborious running around that I slept like a log when Centaurus, the landmark building of Islamabad was ablaze. I wonder how my friend Sardar Tanvir Illyas, the incumbent Prime Minister of…
*The far pavilion*!!
The Afghans are a formidable race, who humbled many powers of their times, on their soil, to which history remains eye witness . The ANP leadership rightly claims, as identity and ancestry of all tribes of Pukhtuns of Pakistan to be…
*Pukhtunwali*!!
Well in old days this political slogan will inspire me Laila Watan Majnoon Wali Pukhtun Wali Pukhtun Wali( Beloved Homeland juliet Romeo Pukhtun Wali).
What is Pukhtun Wali, it is a code of honour and commitment by which all Pukhtuns…