The Wednesday night car bombing at Quetta’s five-star Serena hotel brought Pakistan back into the global spotlight. The attack exposed the gaps in even the strongest of security mechanisms aimed at preventing asymmetric attacks with a hundred percent efficiency. Even though Pakistan has made solid efforts to counter terrorism, the forces of anarchy and chaos […]
26SharesEvery day we hear government ministers, retired army generals and former bureaucrats say almost in a chorus that the state should be above politics and nobody should be allowed to question or challenge it. Opposition groups and politicians are accused of being disloyal to the state. They remind everybody that state takes precedence over everything […]
39SharesPakistan is a land where the women ends up the target of criticism at the end. It does not matter if the question is one of honour killing, harassment, torture or exploitation of her human rights. This is not new. General Zia ul Haq’s infamous Hudood Ordinance was a way to deeply set in place […]