Pakistan
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Apropos: “‘Unfortunate incident’ in Bahawalnagar: Joint inquiry to be conducted: ISPR” Reference: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40298267/unfortunate-incident-in-bahawalnagar-joint-inquiry-to-be-conducted-ispr; https://www.independenturdu.com/node/165566 Bloody noses and solidarity may work fine in a game of boxing, they tend to go less well together in actual life. Although a statement from police on Musk’s X told spectators (sic) that an event in Bahawalnagar took place because…
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اگلے روز بھارت کے وزیرِ دفاع نے ’پیش گوئی‘ فرمائی کہ ان کا ملک پاکستان میں جا کے دہشت گردوں کو مارے گا۔ اِس پہ ہمارے دفترِ خارجہ کو امن کی یاد آگئی۔ چند ہفتے قبل بھی امن کی یاد آئی ہوتی تو اچھا تھا، لیکن تب افغانستان پہ حملہ کرنے کی جلدی تھی۔ تاکہ…
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See previous article: https://werticalhorizon.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/political-bargaining-at-the-expanse-of-a-letter-written-by-six-judges-of-islamabad-high-court/ Divide and Rule The Law Minister, citing a six-years-old case, claimed that cases of indiscretion on the part of Intelligence Community has also occurred previously yet in an attempt to further create wedge between the present Chief Justice of Pakistan and one immediately preceding him, summed up the matter, that the…
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Preface I have provided ‘definitions’ for the terms involved in another web log. Briefly, dual state is a term used by Professor Morgenthau to describe activities of American intelligence agencies; Dimorphism is a division between secular and religious institutions; Parallel Structures are fabricated by Fascist or other outside parties. The current work is indebted to…
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Apropos: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40282990/sc-upholds-pervez-musharrafs-death-sentence-in-treason-case Unreserved felicitation extended to the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the Supreme Court of Pakistan for upholding the special court’s decision in Treason Trial of one Pervez Musharraf – not that the judges of the Supreme Court need the felicitation from this scribe. The Lahore High Court bench that had previously declared un-Islamic…
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Apropos: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40281981/missing-persons-cases-sc-asks-probe-commission-to-file-report During the hearing, the Chief Justice of Pakistan told a plaintiff, whose husband is missing for about two decades, that I don’t see why this government or those in charge of various institutions would want to assume responsibility if someone else earlier had done something illegal. There is every reason that if they…
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I When I favorably quote a person, it is because that person’s words comport well with my a priori reflexions – unless it is a matter of mathematics or physical sciences. I do not favorably quote as a way of appeal to authority that goes: Since Mister Alpha Bravo Charlie had said that we must…
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Karma is the justice of the dead. May not always etymologically relate yet Egyptian maat cosmic balance; Hebrew met dead; Persian māt defeat (preserved in ‘checkmate’); and, Arabic maut death are pointing in the same backward vein as Doctor Manhattan – risen from the death / sleep –…
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By Moazzam Ali Qureshi Autumn 2023 Under Discussion: Hussain Nadim, Aid, Politics and the War of Narratives in the US-Pakistan Relations: A Case Study of Kerry Lugar Berman Act (Routledge Asian Studies Association of Australia: South Asian Series, 2023). With supplementary notes on and special thanks to Tilak Devasher, Pakistan at the Helm (HarperCollins Publishers…