No Troops without National and OIC Consensus

"After first gaining support for this special session from key OIC members, Pakistan should call for the holding of this session. Instead of going it alone or being encouraged by the decision of one or two other Muslim countries, Pakistan should lead the initiative to take a collective decision on the issue of Iraq. Meanwhile at home the parliament should initiate a debate on sending our troops to Iraq. In the media the issue is already being debated."

Living Beyond The Grid

"Democracies find it a great deal easier to muster public support for wholesale oppression, exploitation, and mass murder when they are able portray the enemy in one-dimensional terms, as evil terrorists, killers who have no respect for human life."

Banking Industry of Pakistan: Performances and Constrains

"The banking industry should determine where improvement is needed, how service can be improved and where operating system breakdowns occur, why they occur and how they can be avoided."

More bang for the buck

"The greatest gift General Musharraf can give the country and its Armed Forces is to set in motion a comprehensive process to achieve the professionalism that is necessary to fight 21st century battles."

Legitimate and Illegitimate Love

"As for the majority of people, they think that every emotion to which the name of "love" is ascribed is virtuous, pure, and even holy, and that examples of romantic longing, such as what we have mentioned above, are perfectly acceptable."