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Mmm at the point of sounding facetious may I suggest your indulging in "whataboutery"?

Certainly NOT the present government. This piece is taking a sly shot at PMIK's government whose slogan is "Naya Pakistan" or New Pakistan. The reality is that water was as dirty two years ago in the "Old Pakistan" before Imran Khan won the elections. As to who is to blame. It's complex. I will...

I give you example of how much political power leaders actually bring to bear on the system. If 260 workers were burnt alive could the political leadership muff and protect the culprits? This is test of how much power politicians weild in Pakistan. Well only 8 years ago this happened in Karachi...

I was just taking a jibe.

How do you conclude this? Could it possibly be weak voter accountability. If such shenanigans caused loss of voter support this habit would cease to exist. As the PM would know it would political suicide to do such a thing. However in Pakistan voters keep voting them in power. Would a Indian...

I took a assumption there, as I suspect there is more chance of a male in a convent of nuns as of having a female on these type of 'defence forums" ....

I take a differant view. But I am taking a break. Given this is the only life I am doing my darnest to extend it. I just did a incredibly difficut but enjoyable 2 hour training in the gym. I am shattered and need to eat. Over and out boys ..

Although I am very cynical but I do hold a optimistic view of the future. I don't think there will be war between the great powers. We must assume that states act within their interests as you stated earlier. Given that fact and the advent of nuclear weapons a war between great powers is non...

When you have one power or a unipolar world it leads to imperial hubris. Talk of bleak tell me how has the world benefited from Libya being distablised? Leading to mass migration outlet from Sub Saharan Africa to Europe and a country left in tatters. Or Syria? Or Iraq with it's 'balkanization'...

What we will have is two poles and lots of smaller powers like Turkey, Pakistan etc trying to extract the best deal out of both poles. So you will have dozens of smaller countries being touted by the great powers. T

In another post I stated that about 1995 was apogee of American power. And nobody would say Chinese are 'nice guys'. It's a state. But certainly we will have a bipolar world which means the smaller fish in the global order will get a chance to breath. The tension between USA and China will...

And please don't think I am Sinophile. I find Chinese at the point of being open to charges of racism disgusting. They have particularly vulgar way of snorting food. They are not particularly good looking people. My son at university got part time job as tutor to Chinese students and I became...

Which is why I rarely indulge in debate over legal aspects despite having background in law because I know the issue is NOT the law but the implementation and or the attendent politics that inevitably go with these things.

You got to factor in the timeframe. In the ancient world definition of superpower was differant. No planes, no vehicles, no modern ships thus it's ability to impose it's power would be curtailed. With advent of modern technology it is now possible to influence the entire globe. At 57 I will not...

When I said China I mean't the geography coterminous to that country. That way CCP China is only 70 years old, Japan only 65 years old [the old order was quashed by USA post 1945 defeat], Germany only 70 years old [post war] and Italy only 150 years old. No nation state existed few centuries...

This today is face of a guy who was supposed to have days left to live last year.

Good old politics. Same in USA. Same in UK. Now what I would love to see is Pakistan going all "Israeli" on this and send a ISI hit team to kidnap, drug and bring the basket back inside a basket loaded onto a regular flight. Instead, the Mossad carried out a “honey trap” operation and sent a...

I know there is certain amount of aversion toward Chinese on account of the Uighurs. But as anybody who has been to Kazakstan [I spent 2 weeks in Alma Aty] will know the Chinese literally are flooding Central Asia with their economic pull. The trade on the Kazak/Chinese border alludes to that...

And USA does not? Blimey ....

That is very true but political governments everywhere have to be seeno be doing something. Motorways are dangeous places. In UK we have had murders and rapes of women whose cars broke down. More cameras, more visible patrols might disuade but will not eliminate such horrible incidents.