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This region really needs development in addition to improved security measures like border fencing with Iran/Afghanistan. The province of Balochistan is huge but has sparse population because of the very adverse climate. Hot and dry in summer, freeezing cold in winter. But the state has ignored...

I would suggest that use of the Solar system as a analogy would be instructive. In such system one body is the anchor and provides sufficient gravitrional pull to old others [planets/countries] in it's pull and thus provide order. In the western world USA provides the gravitational pull. The...

I am looking at the map and thinking in the name of Allah did Pakistan lose Kashmir to India?

Chemical castration is a great idea. Rape is a terrible crime that destroys lifes. I entirely agree with Prime Minister Imran Khan's proposal and I hope it makes it through parliament and gets enacted as law. Yes, that is a fantastic model that Pakistan should have copied decades ago. The...

Hey Kal-El you okay, mate?

Is there a faultline in Pakistan? Yes there is. And it runs north south along the spine of the country. West of Indus River is populated mostly by Iranic speakers [related to Iranians and Kurds] and Indo Aryans on the east related to Indian populations like Sikhs etc. But then every country has...

For the Turks who may not be aware the name "PAKSTAN" is a acroym of the five provinces/peoples straddled along the Indus River Basin. It was coined by Rehmat Ali in 1930.

It can be formed if the narrative is anchored in the geography and history of the people who live there. This is what France, Germany, Turkey did. If France had gone for "Christianity" then today every Christian would have been a putative French. 95% of Pakistani's belong to broadly five ethnic...

Absolutely. I accept that culture is informed by religion. And culture can impact politics. But the "hadith says so or so". Or "Mufti says so and so" Or "it is narrated that" has no place in politics or even rational discussion. The number of times I have to put up with type of discussion which...

Welcome to all the new members on Defence Hub.

Hahahaha, I am afraid I fell for the western consumerist culture. Expensive everything is my gig. This is the only life and thus all the more important to extract as much out of it.

This is not about culture. This is about who is dominant.

We as human beings are hard wired to compete, to fight, to win or to gain ascendancy. Losing is not in our make.

But before I go Pakistan is a funny old place. When I put that question to the bunch I was with non could answer me. However one of the guys says "okay then I am off to my spot, who wants to join me to celebrate seeing that this mate of ours from UK thinks it's the right thing to do". And what...

I went to a I am a 58 year old guy with scars and grown children. Trust me I will ride this. But I am just releasing my angst. Truth be told I will miss my mother. But like I said it is the way it is. You know I was thinking about life. My feeling is this is the only life. This after life lark...

As regards religion I am more what you might say "cultural Muslim". I suspect I am agnostic. Not that I would go and shout that loud. But you know deep inside. I find the whole religious prescriptions infantile and my logical side just can't accomodate that. This is difficult thing to say for...

I am not religious and neither are my siblings. I am the eldest and fcuk I am gonna say "sorry". Frankly I give religious serrmons or whatever little value. My dad is is too gone medically [over 87] and my mum has fallen under the spell of my younger brother. Things went so bad that at my age I...

Honestly I am impressed. And not bragging but I have been brought up in UK, travelled all over Europe, North America, Far East, including even what was Soviet Union, Pakistan. So I am not some country bumpkin who sees the first lights and goes star crazy !

I am feeling nostaligic and rather sad. We have had nothing lesss than a Ottoman style war of succesion in the family to carve out my dad's estate. It's almost over but I lost all my family. My mum, my brothers/sisters except one. Sadly there is never going to be peace or reconciliation between...

Another blast from the past @Yankeestani nearly 40 years ago or about 1980. Me and my younger siblings.