Zafar Bangash

  • Hypocrisy is not the exclusive preserve of Western regimes but they are master practitioners of this evil craft. That explains why Western hypocrisy is often so easy to miss. Barring a few exceptions, even the […]

  • There are two opposing views about Pakistan. The cynics dismiss it as a “failed state.” The other view holds that it has great potential and is on the verge of a major breakthrough. Depending on one’s perception, […]

  • Unlike the rest of the country, Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad is well planned. Since it was built from scratch, there was time to prepare a master plan. It has wide roads and broad boulevards but it would be […]

  • Nothing remains constant in life; change is inevitable. How people manage change determines whether the outcome would be positive or disastrous. This is also true in politics.

    Pakistan stands at the threshold […]

  • With the federal government as well as two of the four provinces—Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab—under his belt, Imran Khan, leader of the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party is a greatly satisfied person. His 22- […]

  • It is open season on Muslims. There is hardly a country in the world where Muslims do not face genocide, racist attacks, ethnic cleansing, and abuse. If Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are the latest group to join a […]

  • As mass popular movements sweep the Muslim East (a.k.a. Middle East) predatory Western powers and their local satraps are involved in desperate attempts to hijack them. They are offering the same failed systems […]

  • One thing has become clear as a result of the movements for dignity and freedom sweeping the Muslim East (aka the Middle East): the old order has been permanently and irrevocably altered. What shape the new […]

  • It is an open question whether the Occupy Wall Street Movement will achieve its objectives. Launched on September 17, it has not only lasted much longer than most observers had anticipated, it has also gone […]

  • It would be reasonable to assume that most normal people would overcome their anger after a decade. Not so the Americans, and now the Europeans as well. Since the attacks of 9/11, the world has been turned upside […]

  • After distorting the teachings of their own religion, Christianity, and then abandoning it all together, the Western world is now busy trying to give the same treatment to Islam in order to subvert it. Two events […]

  • On its 64th birthday Pakistan has a unique opportunity to change policies that have been little short of disastrous so far. Such change will depend on several factors: willingness of the ruling elites to admit […]

  • The negative fallout from the Osama bin Laden episode is only slowly trickling out into the public domain but Pakistani officials are already scurrying to find support elsewhere as they desperately try to present […]

  • The Doha-based Al-jazeera television network has made a name for itself as the first independent media network in the Muslim East. Its coverage of Israel’s invasion of Gaza in December 2008—January 2009 grea […]

  • The West’s hypocrisy stands exposed yet again in the contrasting policies toward uprisings in Libya and Bahrain. The US and allies Britain and France pressed the UN Security Council on March 17 to impose a no […]

  • The global political scene is not only changing, it has changed quite dramatically over the last decade or so. The pompous notion of a unipolar world in which the self-proclaimed “sole superpower” maint […]

  • Journalists, it is said, write the first draft of history. Given the manner in which the once honourable profession of journalism has been subverted into a propaganda tool of the Western corporate elite, it is a […]

  • Beyond the clichéd-ridden rhetoric on Kashmir, real people — men, women and children — are getting killed and maimed by one of the most ruthless military machines in the world: India’s 1.2 million- […]

  • The chest thumping at the NATO Lisbon conference (November 19-20) did not impress the Taliban much. Instead, they were chuckling at how easily the Americans can be duped into believing they are negotiating with […]

  • Despite the immense damage inflicted on Islam and its historic sites by the House of Saud, most Muslims remain blissfully oblivious of their true nature and the toxic ideology they preach. Part of the reason may […]

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