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Given that both are state-of-the art vessels, equipped with the most sophisticated communication gear, it seems incomprehensible how these two nuclear-powered subs, bristling with ballistic missiles, could “run into each other” It is said: What goes up, must one day come down. Satellites launched some forty years ago into space, [...] addressed KH as ‘Guru’ simply because as a prolific and peerless writer, he was as quick with his lash as he was with his bouquets when it came to half-baked, ill equipped “writers of my ilk”. My ego is still smarting from the searing reprimand I received from him on [...] Every forest today is infested with the Taliban who are equipped with the most modern weaponry and a brutal extremist agenda to terrorise its people. Everyday brings in more of these marauders from the hills and the mountain passes. This valley is under siege One often hears politicians of every stripe [...] If Pakistan decides to play ball for its own good, fine, but if it continues to believe that it is the only conduit for supplies to US troops embedded in Afghanistan, a rethink in Islamabad might well be in order Years ago, a young and talented singer called Billy Joel [...] Pakistan’s gesture of bestowing the Vice President-elect with its highest civilian award is a good one. It recognises Senator Biden’s tireless efforts towards bringing civilian rule in Pakistan Joe Biden still has a few days left to use the prefix of Senator, a prefix that he has proudly used since [...] The year 2008 will also be remembered for some momentous events, events that will determine the way the free world conducts itself in the near future. Barack Obama’s election as the 44th President of the United States of America is one of them [...] The phenomenon of an elected president being hounded out of office was incomprehensible to a young bewildered person from Pakistan in those days. I recall asking Abe Schwartz, a senior Washington attorney, what was it that President Richard Nixon had done to warrant his resignation? His answer: “He lied” [...] Both India and Pakistan lack even basic civil defence facilities and the infrastructure to handle a limited strike on its cities, painfully evidenced by the terrorist attacks on the Marriott in Islamabad, and the Taj, the Oberoi and the Victoria Terminus in Mumbai [...] It is incomprehensible how — despite intelligence warnings — the authorities that were in possession of such specific information failed or refused to share it with their counterparts in Pakistan, who they are now holding responsible [...] There is talk of all kinds of regulatory set of rules for the Press, the bureaucracy, the legal community et al. Let there be one for politicians as well. One such rule for them should be that children, regardless of their parentage, ought never to be targeted until they have [...] The other day, I asked Sanjay Siroya, a prominent gold and diamond powerhouse here in Dubai, how much gold he thought was in private hands in Pakistan. His reply stunned me Now we all know that the halcyon days of mucho denairo or, as the Brits are prone to say, [...] Obama’s victory has successfully brought together the myriad wondrous colours of the rainbow that make up the United States of America in one warm embrace. Let him now stretch out to a divided world and offer his hand of friendshipAmerica welcomes a new president and the world gets a new [...] There were a couple of banks that overseas investors bought, and if the truth be told, they are today being run far more efficiently and professionally than they have ever before in their chequered histories [...] |
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