Over the decades corruption has become deeply entrenched in the institutions of the state and in the business of fighting corruption, it is one of the most important objectives of the current PTI government. Corruption has damaged the Pakistani state, its social fabric, its economy and its national security. Fighting corruption therefore remains one of…
Pakistan’s image in the international community is rather negative, over the years and even after decades this has not much improved. We have never paid much attention to our image-building, whatever done was done a clumsy way. Pakistan’s negative image was further disparaged by the very successful and never relaxing anti-Pakistan propaganda by India at…
Contrary to general world perception, India’s economic woes are increasing by the day. India’s once-impressive economic growth, averaging above 8 per cent over some time, slowed to below 5 per cent in the last year while inflation rocketed into double digits. Maryam’s Uncle Modi’s changing of the status of the autonomous state of Jammu &Kashmir…
“The Betrayal of India. Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence” was published in 2017 and since then has seen two more editions. The Book analyses the evidence that has been blamed on Pakistan in the Mumbai bombing case. Elias Davidsson is a Jewish writer with an Icelandic Passport living in Germany. He made a name for himself…
Dear Readers, To meet the expenditure of a country and serve its people, taxes are essential, it being the most important source of government revenue that is reallocated to cater to expenses incurred by the federal and provincial governments. Pakistan’s existing tax system is perceived by a majority to be unjust and oppressive and indeed…
The second term of BJP rule in India has exposed the fake Indian image of a free, democratic or secular country. The media is an exact mirror of what is going on. The print and other media is so much under the control of the Hindutva team that it has become dangerous for journalists to…
Adopted in 1950 Indian Constitution Article 15 sounds like this: “The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them”. The Indian National Congress (INC) and India’s argument against the creation of Pakistan was that there is no such thing as a…
The rule of the BJP ideology of Hindutva in India and the violent attempts to implement its idea of a nation needs a closer look in order to be able to understand and react to it. The term ‘Hindutva’ was coined in 1923 by Vinayak Somodar Savarkar in his book ‘Essentials of Hindutva’ that was…
What may come as a surprise to most of us is that the term ‘Hinduism’ was unknown in India before the 18th or even the 19th century. While caste and jatis neatly divided Indian society and hundreds of local gods and goddesses were worshipped from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin nobody among those worshippers would…
Dear Readers, In the 2019 general elections in India a majority of the voters fell for deceitful propaganda and lies, the end result is that fascism is now official in India. The rule of Hindu fanatics has begun in a no holds barred fasion with hate and violence being used against whoever is deemed to…
