Baloch quagmire ۔۔۔۔۔۔ Muhammad Ali Siddiqi
OF all the sense and nonsense spoken about the Balochistan situation, two statements stand out: Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti’s truth about the 4,000 miles of roads in the province, and … Read More
Tag: Muhammad Ali Siddiqi
Nation of soldiers …. Muhammad Ali Siddiqi
WITHIN a short time after the founding of Israel, a persecuted people who had never warred became “a nation of soldiers”. As historians Edward Luttwak and Dan Horowitz write in … Read More
Israeli influence … Muhammad Ali Siddiqi
JUST 2.4 million people — five per cent of Shanghai’s population — and a superpower sends two aircraft carriers to threaten them and reassure Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal, of … Read More
Long war threat…Muhammad Ali Siddiqi
WHEN the negotiators for the TTP threatened, by some accounts, a long war on Pakistan, I wonder whether their Pakistani interlocutors reminded them that in a long war it is … Read More