Tag: Raymond Davis
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Memogate and the Greater Divide
It’s what the wise always warned about, best kept secrets from spouse or the house are bound to expire, and so it did. But strangely it’s not the secret itself but its architects who are being sought. Like a fuse attached to an explosive dump, the memo has ignited slowly but is undoubtedly travelling toward…
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Saleem Shahzad Murder: Another move to trap the Hunters?
Dark clouds have lowered down on the journalist community of Pakistan, as well as the global network with the shocking murder of Saleem Shahzad, a top line investigative journalist from Pakistan. Saleem, maintained a low profile as far as the main stream electronic media is concerned, but his connection and insight into Al Qaeda, Taliban…
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Osama Bin Laden Dead? ….. Myth vs Reality
During my days as a student, once I got into an argument with my respected teacher and expert in US policy. While ambitious, I was persistent that US was no longer the only super power in terms of military, but finally he gave his ace card by stating that till date, US has the only…
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Paint My Face Black “Raymondâ€â€¦ I am a Pakistani
Thank you Mr Raymond Davis … thanks a lot for reminding the blind folded, deaf and dumb 180 million herd of cattles called Pakistanis………that we are worms, the real pesticides of this globe, you can play with us, you can go on a rampage shooting people, your “friends†can play real version of “Need for…
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While They Fight… TTP Strikes
Last week was covered with news stories, or precisely a tug of war between our Minister for Interior Rehman Malik and CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif. The bone of contention remained varying claims regarding the existence of Punjabi Taliban, making its hold firm in South and internal Punjab. Mr Malik, as cool as a cucumber very…
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Victim of Conscience: Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Pakistan has got its new cabinet, and like all our 180 million population, I am hardly attaching any hope from them. In simple it’s the old wine in the new bottle, a league of incompetent appeasers who care for nothing but exclusively their foreign masters. It won’t be fair if I term it as an…
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Raymond Davis: A secret Agent?
The shoot out incident which took place in busy streets of Lahore on Thursday 27 January has taken a lot of twists and turns. Raymond Alan Davis a US national killed two Pakistani citizens at crowded Mazang chowk in Lahore. Raymond Davis claims that the two men were robbers and he killed them in self…
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Raymond Davis and The Bandits of America
Last few weeks have proved to be quite dynamic in terms if international political spectrum. From Tunisia till Yemen masses have converged to the streets. The videos flashing around the media screen have reminded many of scenes usually witnessed after nations win glory in some sporting event. But this time it’s not the same. The…