The writer is former executive editor of The News and a senior journalist with Geo TV. We all know war is costly business. It takes a cruel toll on human beings and hauls back nations by decades. But if it must come then bring it on. No honourable nation can look the other way for long, the inevitable consequence of a big ambitious neighbour led by small ambitious men immersed in extremist ideology bent upon…
Posts published in “Day: September 27, 2016”
Responding to a very angry Indian public over the attack on Uri by militants, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched another invective against Pakistan, and declared that India would “leave no stone unturned to isolate Pakistan in the world.” Needles to say, India is far from realising this objective, but the level of virulence in India over Pakistan after the attack in Uri is something that needs to be closely examined. As a big…
India is clearly not prepared to soften its harshening stance towards Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strategy was rather clear at a speech he gave last week to a gathering of BJP workers. Modi decided to skip the step of showing any semblance of proof that Pakistan was involved in the Uri attack and move straight ahead to making both veiled and direct threats. During the speech, the Indian prime minister insisted that India…
IN his first public comments since the Uri attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has threatened a policy of working to “isolate” Pakistan internationally — a statement that has been interpreted both as a climbdown from post-Uri war rhetoric and a veiled threat by the Indian leader. At the very least, it suggests a degree of policy confusion in India that can have a dangerously destabilising effect in the region. More than a week removed from…
ISLAMABAD: What forced Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get down off his horse back and talk sense, for a change, instead of attacking Pakistan? The apparent first and foremost reason behind his change of mind is the fear of sure matching or even greater retaliation from Pakistan if India embarked upon any adventure of limited strikes or a full-fledged war. That Pakistan is a nuclear power and capable of taking any step if pushed…
ISLAMABAD: At a time when Pakistan-India tensions are rising in the backdrop of last week’s attack on Indian forces near the Line of Control (LoC), the Special Committee on Kashmir Affairs seems to be in a dormant mode. JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman is head of the committee, which is supposed to highlight the Kashmir issue. However, the committee’s role appears to have been ritualistic, limited to passing resolutions and giving recommendations over the issue.…
Fazl not happy as PM ignored his men: Report in Daily Times, Sept 26, 2016 ISLAMABAD: National Assembly’s Special Committee on Kashmir Chairman Fazlur Rehman is not happy with the prime minister as the latter did not take the cleric’s consent before sending as many as 24 lawmakers abroad to highlight the Kashmir issue. Sources told Daily Times that Fazl, who is also the chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, would head a…
QUETTA: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Balochistan president Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti on Sunday said Bugti tribesmen were fully prepared to fight against India in the hills of the Kashmir valley. “Bugti tribesmen would fight against Indian troops ahead of Pakistan Army,” said the grandson of Nawab Akbar Bugti. The statement from the chief of JWP comes at a time when Indian rhetoric against Pakistan has reached a fever pitch following the attack on an Indian army…
LAHORE – Due to Northern Areas airspace restriction, PIA’s flights to Gilgit and Skardu for September 26 (today) will operate earlier than their scheduled timings, spokesman for national flag carrier said on Sunday. He said that among the affected flights including Islamabad-Gilgit-Islamabad flights PK-607 and PK-608 will be operated 45 minutes ahead of their scheduled time at 5:15 am and 7 am respectively, while Islamabad-Skardu-Islamabad flights PK-451 and PK-452 will now operate nearly three hours…
WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement violates all United Nations and international charters against non-interference in internal affairs of other countries, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said in an interview with Dawn on Saturday. And Jalil Abbas Jilani, Pakistan’s Ambassador to Washington, believes that Mr Modi’s statement shows India’s nervousness with the situation in held Kashmir. Responding to Mr Modi’s address in Kerala on Saturday, the two diplomats said several UN resolutions recognised Pakistan…
GUJRAT-PML-Q and former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi yesterday criticised that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif did not utter a single word against Modi during his speech to UN General Assembly session. Addressing the party workers on 65th death anniversary of Zahoor Elahi here in Gujrat, Pervaiz Elahi said that all the political parties are united against India despite differences. He said that national intelligence departments provided the premier all the evidence against India but Nawaz…