Recent content by Longhorn

It's all self inflicted. 2 years ago, Pakistan was aligning itself with Iran, China, Russia, CAR's in an economic bloc, India was on the ropes vis a vis China, the USA was scrambling to maintain it's influence in the region. Fast forward today. A complete shambles because of some of our people...

Sour grapes.

The only divine justice I can see is the one that is punishing the whole of Pakistani society for it's acceptance of injustice, complacency, corruption by everyone from the richest to the lowliest as a way of life.

This is Pakistan's fundamental problem. It is in the interest of the ruling elites to keep the masses poor and stupid.

Too late, won't happen. The people who would legislate for and enforce this land reform are the same ones who own all the land or are married into land owning families. The landowners, business people, generals, top bureaucrats and politicians are all intermarried into each others families...

I'm not sure it's any more civilised now.

The Pakistani world view is one big fantasy. The whole population constantly lives in denial. It's like a parallel universe.

I say this in despair and sadness but it doesn't matter whether overseas Pakistanis do or don't send remittances. The economy is so precarious that it is already at a state of default. The only to Hong keeping it afloat is deposits from friendly countries which Pakistan doesn't in reality own...

You console yourself with that thought.

It certainly isn't. It happens like it happens everywhere in the world but the difference is how it is policed, detected, punished and viewed by society. I lived in Pakistan in the late 90s, it was rife then. It wasn't even hidden. It was virtually accepted as a social norm. It has got worse...

It is a country where to speak the truth is to invite to invite your own death, where to be or want to be, different is fatal. It is a country where delusion trumps fact. It is a country that has killed all progressive thought and action because we have unilaterally crowned ourselves the...

Fixed for you.

I fear it is already too late.

It's up to the Thais do something about criminal activity in their country.

We have cut the ground from under the feet of the Kashmiri people of India. Should we be surprised if they no longer want to become part of this new Pakistan? What in God's name have we become?