DEC 30, 2020 (OPED – DAILY TIMES): Lately, I’ve stopped writing my regular OPED, given the extreme partisan single minded views generally expressed by readers and the absence of a pluralistic approach to a sane dialogue. Admittedly I do not subscribe to a ”on the one hand and on the other hand” type of journalist jugglery to try and keep everyone happy, keep the money from my employers or media house flowing, but have very harsh, unvarnished and forthright views, untainted by any external vested interest, other than my own biases! London Stock Suddenly Increase WHO has warned of a severe pandemic ahead However, earlier today a friend’s comments on an article on the Pakistan Army written by a certain Aqil Shah in the Foreign Affairs Weekly, a fairly reputable publication of the Council of Foreign Relations, USA, supposedly a reputable and objective think tank by western standards, but completely blind, subjective and morally and intellectually bankrupt, when it comes to commenting on China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel etc., prompted me to pen these words. Many of us, either out of ignorance or deliberate malice and anger or our selfish interests driven by our political affiliations or our family’s political … Continue reading Pakistan and the Pakistan Army