This is crunch time for Pakistan. A complete stock of the situation needs to be taken and some courageous, prudent and entirely indigenous decisions with Pakistan’s own national interests overriding everything else have to come out of that exhaustive stock taking. The main objective of the forthcoming decisions must be to make Pakistan be counted

Over the past fortnight another wave of terrorism shook the country. Two huge blasts in Peshawar shook the provincial capital and the country as a whole. The federal capital witnessed a UN office being penetrated by a suicide bomber that made mockery of the bunker-mentality security doctrine. As if this was not enough to rattle

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed President AML, Mirza Aslam Baig, Nawab Yousaf Talpur PPP and Masood Sharif Khan Khattak in an episode of Islamabad Tonight & discuss current issues with Nadeem Malik. Discussion topics include Kerry Lugar bill, Asif Zardari’s comments on success for democracy based on bill, American influence on Pakistan, Pakistan Army and Parliament response

Rather than each passing day bringing some relief to a starved nation all essential aspects of Pakistani national life remain in a retrogressive motion with no end to the sufferings of the teeming millions in sight. It is time that Pakistan truly started believing in itself and began to revive itself as a dignified nation

Wishing all my fellow Pakistanis and other muslim brothers and sisters a very very happy Eid. I pray that you all have a lovely day and that this day brings in its wake lots of happiness and prosperity to you all. While you all enjoy your Eid do not forget the millions of fellow Pakistanis

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The surest way to fritter away a massive financial capital with no short or long term gains is to distribute it in small sums to millions of people. Such a distribution can never result in poverty alleviation but can open the floodgates leading to massive corruption. Who can ever check whether someone, imaginary or real,

Masood Sharif Khan Khattak on Associated Press TV – Sept 2009 [FLOWPLAYER=https://www.sharifpost.com/Video/2009_Press_TV.flv,425,344] In the following week, students were presented with a lengthy text on human digestion that was taken from a chapter in the course textbook see review

NOTE: The following media is in the Urdu language and NOT in English. The month of August 2009 witnessed a dubious character from the past who had worked in the intelligence apparatus of Pakistan making, on every TV Channel of Pakistan, so-called and unwarranted revelations galore about important political and other events of the eighties

Musharraf’s nine years of misrule have left Pakistan comparable to a ship which finds itself in stormy waters with its engines seized, the rudder broken and the compass out of order. The magnificent two-year-long relentless struggle by the lawyers and the civil society against a well entrenched dictator eventually, became the basis for Musharraf’s departure