The barrage of blasphemy spread from Denmark and France, to the rest of Europe and then on to the US. It has now even spread to the lowly mushrikeen Hindus. The honor of our beloved Prophet

Pakistan’s deceptively independent Democracy, in fact, enslaves Pakistan to US interests through red-lines. Political leadership is only given as much space as the red-lines of the American agenda for the region, including Pakistan, allows. Any crossing of American red-lines, means government, media and public arenas are all violently closed off, with all rights brutally seized.

The media commentators are trying to engage the people in debate over the London Plan and Islamabad March, as if there is any hope that these plans and political maneuvers will solve the problems of the people. Be it Maryam Aurangzeb, Shahbaz Gul or Rana Sanaullah, their rhetoric is like that of Nadr bin Harith, the chief of Quraysh, who recited stories of Rustam and Asfandyar,

What difference has it really made to the suffering of the people that the Bajwa-Imran government exited and the Bajwa-Sharif government arrived? Asides from the highest inflation in two and a half years, what else have the people gained within a month of the latest changes in the faces of looters, turncoats and those who convert Pakistan’s economy into a cash cow for the usury mafia?