The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear”

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/pakistan-saudi-arabia-rift-widens-after-oic-foreign-ministers-summit/amp_articleshow/88479783.cms The Economic Times dt. 24 December 2021 I read the above article with great interest since, after having lived and worked 25 years of my professional career in Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and travelled all across the Middle-East, I am familiar with the history and politics of its peoples and can relateContinue reading “The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear””

PAKISTAN: “THE SICK MAN OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT”

Below is an Op-Ed piece by an anonymous writer in the Friday Times (Pakistan) . I read it twice fully and I must confess I was at once afflicted by so many mixed feelings about everything this extraordinary correspondent has penned in his almost elegiac piece (so much redolent of the famous one of ThomasContinue reading “PAKISTAN: “THE SICK MAN OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT””