Dr Khalil's Intellectual Space

Pak Political Economy +

Dr Khalil's Intellectual Space

Pak Political Economy +

اُلجھے ہوئے کالم نگار اور رعونت زدہ انائیں

ذیل میں دو کالم نقل  ہیں۔ دیکھیے بڑے بڑے کالم نگار کن معاملات میں الجھے ہوئے ہیں؛ ان کی دلچسپیاں کیا ہیں؛ ان کی انا کیسی رعونت میں ڈوبی ہوئی ہے۔ میں عام طور انھیں نہیں پڑھتا، مگر بعض اوقات سرسری نظر ڈال لیتا ہوں؛ بالخصوص جب کالم کا عنوان ’’پُرکشش‘‘ ہو۔  پہلا کالم رؤف […]

فنا فی الطالبان

چند خبریں ملاحظہ کیجیے، اور سوچیے طالبان اور طالبان نواز افراد اور جماعتوں میں کیا فرق ہے۔ میری رائے میں طالبان تو بزور پاکستان کی ریاست پر قبضہ کرنا چاہتے ہیں، اور طالبان نواز بے چارے اس انتظار میں ہیں کہ طالبان کب پاکستان کی ریاست پر قبضہ کرتے ہیں اور کب یہ قبضہ انھیں […]

A new category emerges: Very Bad Taliban

Today’s tweet: Despite shifts in security policy, there are Good Taliban, and Bad Taliban; friend Raza says, a new category has emerged, Very Bad Taliban  http://twitter.com/khalilkf

Alcohol, drugs and call girls in the Parliament Lodges in Islamabad – What’s the issue?

The talk of alcohol, drugs and call girls in the parliament lodges, Islamabad, is not new; Jamshed Dasti only repeated it. http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-139500-Dasti-claims-to-recover-bag-full-of-liquor-bottles-from-parliament-lodges-  Everybody knows the moral standing of these parliamentarians, these law-makers, who are the worst law-breakers also. But the hullabaloo is just misplaced. No one seems to addressing the issue: that, there are ordinary […]

Asad Umar’s poor economics – a friend’s blog

Here is one post from Shahid Mehmood’s blog: http://shershahsuree.blogspot.com I was recently forwarded Asad Umar’s two part article on the subject of privatization (which appeared in the NEWS) of public sector enterprises (PSE’s). It is a continuation of the debate that has been generated in lieu of the government’s decision to privatize a specific percentage of […]

’’طالبان کی اصلیت‘‘

گذشتہ روز ’’جنگ‘‘ میں شاہین صہبائی کا کالم، ’’طالبان کی اصلیت‘‘ شائع ہوا۔ آپ بھی پڑھیے اور طالبان کا ذکر تو علاحدہ ہے، طالبان کے ہمدردوں اور حامیوں کے بارے میں سوچیے کہ وہ کیا چاہتے ہیں، اور کس برتے پر طالبان کے نمائندے بنے ہوئے ہیں۔ طالبان کے حامیوں میں اب جماعتِ اسلامی بازی […]

خود مختار پارلیمان کی بالادستی بالآخر قائم ہو گئی!

یہ پوسٹ ایک گذشتہ پوسٹ، ’’پارلیمانی بالادستی کا ڈھونگ ـ ایک تازہ مثال‘‘ سے جڑی ہوئی ہے۔ اصل میں چیئرمین سینیٹ ایران کے دورے پر چلے گئے، اور یوں پارلیمان کی بالادستی قائم ہو گئی۔ پارلیمان کی بالادستی کی تصویر دیکھیے۔ کتنی زبردست تصویر ہے، کتنے شاندار سوٹ میں ملبوس ہے پارلیمان کی بالادستی: یہ […]

میری نئی اردو کتاب، ’’پاکستانی کشاکش‘‘ کی اشاعت اور اجرا

میری نئی اردو کتاب، ’’پاکستانی کشاکش‘‘ شائع ہو گئی اور اے ـ ایس ـ انسٹیٹیوٹ، لاہور نے آج اس کا اجرا کر دیا ہے۔ اس ضمن میں میڈیا ریلیز ملاحظہ کیجیے: میڈیا ریلیز: نئی اردو کتاب، ’’پاکستانی کشاکش‘‘ کی اشاعت اور اجرا لاہور، فروری 22، 2014: آلٹرنیٹ سالوشنز انسٹیٹیوٹ (اے ـ ایس ـ انسٹیٹوٹ) نے آج […]

My new Urdu book, “پاکستانی کشاکش” published, released

My new Urdu book, “پاکستانی کشاکش” (Pakistani Armageddon) published, and released today by the Alternate Solutions Institute. Copied below is the Media Release: New Urdu Book, “پاکستانی کشاکش” Published Lahore, February 22, 2014: Alternate Solutions Institute today released Dr. Khalil Ahmad’s latest Urdu book, Pakistani Kashakash: Tehlee-O-Taadeel aur Aagay Barhnay ka Raasta (Pakistani Armageddon: Analysis, […]

پارلیمانی بالادستی کا ڈھونگ ـ ایک تازہ مثال

روزانہ اخبار دیکھتے ہوئے درجنوں ایسے معاملات نظر سے گزرتے ہیں، جن کی نشاندہی کرنے کو جی چاہتا ہے؛ جن پر لکھنے اور ان کے پیچھے چھپی کہانیوں کو بے نقاب کرنے کو دل چاہتا ہے۔ اور پاکستان کی ریاستی اشرافیہ اور طفیلیے سیاست دان، جو گل کھلاتے رہتے ہیں، ان پر خانہ فرسائی ضروری […]

A State that took over society

You can bring the rich to the level of the poor overnight but it takes a lifetime to lift the poor to the level of the rich.  [Irish proverb] During the 1970s, Pakistan went in for wholesale nationalization of its private enterprises, taking even educational institutions into the state’s hands. This was a move laden […]

General Musharraf and the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology – a tweet

General Musharraf and the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology – a tweet: http://twitter.com/khalilkf Is General Musharraf Julian Assange and Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology Venezuelan Embassy located in London where has has taken refuge!

Flora – My Photography

Flora – My Photography Blog: Capturing a painting WWW.Flora-MyPhotography.blogspot.com

A Pakistan views a Pakistan

See how a Pakistan views a Pakistan: [Dawn, December 24, 2013]

A question mark on the face of Pakistan!

See this picture, and see the question mark on the face of Pakistan! [The News, December 25, 2013]

India-Pakistan-Bangladesh triangle

India-Pakistan-Bangladesh triangle – a revolving triangle! Today’s tweet on this triangle: http://twitter.com/khalilkf  India views Pakistan the way Pakistan views Bangladesh; and Bangladesh views Pakistan the way Pakistan views India!

Asif Ali Zardari – General Zia Incarnate

One man can do wonders, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court proved that. His 8 years in the Supreme Court shook the foundations of the un-challengeable rule of Riyasati Ashrafiya in Pakistan. Starting from March 9, 2007 and till his second restoration, and even after that I wrote many an article on […]

The last temptation of Asif Ali Zardari

“The military use of children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities (child soldiers), or they can be used in support roles such as porters, spies, messengers, look outs; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda.”  [Wikipedia] Which category Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s or Aseefa Bhutto Zardari’s political […]

Tweets on Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

November 29, 2013: Is Shah Mehmood Qureshi behind PTI, taking revenge from US for his ouster from the gov in Raymond Davis case: US diplomat met him yesterday! November 24, 2013: Re PTI blocks NATO supply: Imran Khan, instead of focusing on governance in K-P, is wasting his Party’s first ever stint in a province! […]

Sectarianism and Pakistan Muslim League-N’s misdirection

Why to focus on social media that it incited sectarian violence; whereas sectarian outfits and their comfortable fund-raising and publishing ventures may be causing the sectarian violence, as the following cartoon shows: [The Express Tribune, November 22, 2013] 

Ashrafiya Ke Turray

Please note: This post has been shifted to the Urdu Blog – Civil Pakistan. To see it, click the link below: Ashrafiya Ke Turray

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Mafia politics

Pakistan is a victim of political parties whose motto is: politics of the mafia, by the mafia, for the mafia! Every moment and every day

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Bloggers’ status in Pakistan

On October 12, a letter appeared in The Frontier Post. Here is its text: “Hurdles of Pakistani bloggers Why Pakistani bloggers cannot enjoy journalists’ legal

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Paikaar – Meri Shayeri

Please note: This post has been shifted to the Urdu Blog – Civil Pakistan. To see it, click the link below: Paikaar – Meri Shayeri

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Riyasati Munafqat

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Sarkari Jonken

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Stray points – 1

* Governments, i.e. ruling elites kill their own citizens, sometimes by their unwise vested policies as in Pakistan, and sometimes using the same weapons they

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Karachi Ke Saudagar

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Takhayyul Ki Maut

Please note: This post has been shifted to the Urdu Blog – Civil Pakistan. To see it, click the link below: Takhayyul Ki Maut

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War against virtue

As the Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has recently clearly identified who are extremists and who are terrorists, and as these extremists

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Waiting torture in Pakistan

Yesterday’s Pakistan Print Edition of International Herald Tribune contains Why waiting is torture, by Alex Stone. A very good piece which discusses our psychology of

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Zawaal Ke Nishaan

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The crimes states commit

This does not relate to the crimes states commit against one another. This takes exception to the crimes states, or Pakistani state, commit against their

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Tareekh Ki Muhim

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A world without rules

Now it’s a considered view of mine that it is in making rules, just rules, and following them, and implementing them across the board that

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Enterprise of history – I

This is in continuation of a previous post, “Hind and Sindh civilizations and getting religion politicized.” As I see that, and ,of course, for that

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Signs of decline – 1

Reflections on various things: Signs of decline I am an integral part of this society; but I am an observer of it also. I feel,

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Enter the Age of Rules

Earlier in the post, The Rise of State Aristocracy in Pakistan, the following was stated: “. . . the author thinks that humanity is entering

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Entertainment in Pakistan

Reflections on various things: Entertainment in Pakistan It was in 2003 that I was in Ankara (Turkey); one of the acquaintances put a question that

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First things first

That rulers and ruled are different. That means governments and their citizens are different. That means ruling elites and the ordinary citizens are different. That

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