General Bajwa, the army chief of the world's sixth largest army and only Muslim nuclear power, met the US ambassador on 23 August 2017. This critical meeting was two days after the blustering speech of the US President, Donald Trump, which poured scorn on the immense suffering and losses that Pakistan has endured,

O Muslims ... O Muslim armies. This is Al-Aqsa’s call to the Muslims, this is the call to the Muslim armies ... Will you answer? ... Will you respond? ... Are you coming? Answer O officers and soldiers ... Answer, O good people ... Is there a Salah Ud-Din amongst you?

What a lengthy drama and spectacle, corruption in Pakistan is! We first watched  lengthy corruption proceedings against the family of Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, that began over a year ago. We then watched the submission of a lengthy corruption report by the Joint Investigation Team on 10 July 2017. We next watched as the Sharif family filed lengthy legal objections a week later, on 17 July 2017.

It is about two months before we go for the 2017 Kenya’s general elections. This will be the election to the twelfth parliament and as usual tribal coalitions under the umbrella of political parties have been formed where principals of these coalitions disperse money deceiving masses by urging them to participate in the elections. Before even the election is on, the dirt of democracy was seen in the parties’ primaries