Musings of a modern guy

Pakistan is in the midst of a major crisis. One would not have thought even a few months back that the all-powerful President and General Musharraf, who leads the army and is also the President, would be quivering at the thought of the return of two has-been former Prime Ministers who were essentially exiled from […]

It seems the recent meeting between General Musharraf and former Primer Minister Benazir Bhutto in Dubai led to an agreement between them, steps of which are being played out now. The Pakistani media is buzzing with the news of a compromise that will allow Benazir to come back without the threat of cases against her, […]

The debate between crime, the Justice Department, and the separation of powers is an ongoing one. It gained fresh currency last year when the FBI raided the office of Rep. William Jefferson’s Rayburn office as part of a corruption investigation, leading to cries from Congress about the Justice Department violating the privilege of a member […]

In a sign of how seriously China is taking the recent challenges to its images of providing good, quality and low cost items, it has executed a former top official responsible for the quality of food and drugs.
In the recent past, China has been hit by bans in the United States on many of its […]