Tweet This is not a PG-13 post. If you are offended by bad language, please move on. In Vino Veritas, as it is said in latin, in wine there is truth. And sometimes that truth can be ugly. So ugly, that it might be more comfortable to suppress it and continue on as if the [...]
Tweet This news item should have gotten a lot more coverage than it did. The Pentagon has launched a programme under which their operatives will be creating thousands of false identities on social networks to engage in “conversations” with people in the ME, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. The idea is to use software as [...]
Tweet I just have a good feeling about 2011. I think it’s going to be a great year. I’ve thought a lot about where the optimism is coming from, and I don’t think it’s all subjective. Very important things happened in 2010, such as the incredibly pivotal visit by the Chinese Premier to Pakistan, Pakistan’s [...]
Tweet Back in December 2009, I had come up with a list of predictions for 2010. I may have gotten a little lucky this year, because many of these predictions were spot-on to an uncanny degree. Here’s how I fared: Political predictions I don’t see Asif Zardari making it through 2010. I think he will [...]
Tweet It’s been a while since I wrote about how I see Pakistan’s macro situation developing. Even though the noise in the media about Pakistan has died down considerably over the past year or so, you still come across oddities now and then that make you wonder how mainstream publications can put across nonsense that couldn’t be [...]
Tweet I recently evaluated the predictions from last year. In a nutshell, I was about 80% correct. 2009 has certainly been filled with unique challenges, both at a global and national level. We’re all hopeful the future holds better things, and on that subject, I’ll share with you what I think will go down in 2010. [...]
Tweet Chalk this one up to being a little KA-RAY-ZEEEE! Fedup with thieves and other scum-of-the-earth bugging him and his neighbours, Hanif Molavizadeh, decided to solve the problem with a robotic AK-47. The ingenious device calls him up when it detects someone outside his door. Hanif then threatens the would-be perpetrator over the cell phone. [...]
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