Musings of a modern guy

In a decision that shocked the Texas State Government, an appellate court decision on the 22dn of May 2008 threw out the Government action in taking away children from their mothers in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints case, whereby the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services had raided the […]

It is being reported that China is currently upto its usual practice of repression. Nobody can really forget the Tienanmen Square massacre of 1989 where China employed its soldiers and military machine to murder thousands of its own young citizens in cold blood. After that, China employed the same tactics against the practitioners of the […]

A thorn in the US flesh for so long, it is unlikely that Fidel Castro’s going will make any major difference to the relationship between the United States and Cuba. There was a time when it was believed that if Fidel could just go (whether resigns, or assassinated by a CIA supported plot), then Cuba […]

You got to say this for General Musharraf; sometimes he actually does carry out the steps that he says that he will take. A perfect example is the treatment meted out to Nawaz Sharif when he reached Pakistan. Musharraf and the regime threatened that he will be arrested and deported, and that is exactly what […]

In a move that has further shown the problems in terms of dealing with Pakistan as a state that can do the most against terrorists, and at the same time, being the state that is also the cause of many of the major terrorists scare, the Pakistani Government has released an Al-Qaeda computer expert after […]

In October 2001, when the US, a potent military force routed the Taleban in a straight military battle along with the Northern Alliance, and the heat was turned on Pakistan to withdraw support to the Taliban, the whole world could not have been wrong in predicting the end of the Taliban and maybe some peace […]