Turkey's Kemal Mustafa succeeded for a variety of reasons. His personal abilities and circumstances played a role. However I don't believe in luck as in luck but often is reflection of something else. Meaning luck is made.
If a guy succeeds in something and people might call it 'luck' but that...
Is there anything China is not behind in Pakistan. I wish it was behind everything. The bloody place might see some progress. A million mullas in detention camps. Another 5 million of their followers in re-education camps. Religion removed from politics. Femal emancipation and equal rights for...
KL is a dump. A tropical dump. I have been there and would NEVER go back. You guys have Istanbul which is on the cusp of being a global city. A global fulcrum. Bang in the centre of west, east, north and south. The problem with Ankara is Istanbul will always lead and "suck the oxygen" out of...
Sufi music from Sindh Province of South East Pakistan being sung by Shazia Khushk. It actually at international naval convention in Pakistan and includes Turkish Naval contingent.
Pakistan.
Don't discuss religion. As I have said before I am a 'cultural Muslim'. My inner thoughts are reserved for outside family or cyberspace. I have to accept that my views would cause distress so it's best to keep them to myself.
@Yankeestani today was 30th anniversary of my marriage. I don't do this often but will make a exception here. Please don't make copy of it. My wife and daughter ~ actually I have twins. This is one half. Because they are genetic twins they look the same. Exactly. It might come as surprise to you...
What can PM Imran Khan do? Not much. Under Pakistani constitution the federal government in Islamabad has limited powers to adress development issues. Most of these are with remit of provincial governments. Imran Khan's PTI holds federal government, Khyber Pakhtunwa Province and Punjab province...
Read below what I said about "abstract". Which means I excluded loads of events of no import to the over all dynamic. The important thing to note is -
Before British arrived with their "Make India" project and press ganged Sindh into the Raj, in this case Bombay Presidency] this area was a...
Punjabi cuisine is good but you need to try Pakhtun cusine. Go to Peshawar and get treated to some great food. People from all over Pakistan go there, particularly for meat dishes.
Bloody junk. Just focus on VT-4s and be done with it. Making tanks is not a joke. Pakistan can't even make a decent truck and you expect a miracle with tank manufacture.
The structural reason underlying everything in Pakistan is the catastrophic failure of the idea of Islam as a identity. It might have sounded great back in British Raj to curry support amongst the masses but for such a facile idea to be then imprinted into the DNA of the newly indpendent...