Month: August 2021

  • RUFFIANS AND FRAUDSTERS IN A TOOTHLESS STATE

    RUFFIANS AND FRAUDSTERS IN A TOOTHLESS STATE

    STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Desi drama serials are an integral part of our lives in the sub continent, especially amongst women. I have sat through some of them giving company to the family. Invariably, there is a main story and then some side plots as a distraction to prevent monotony and prolong drama. At…

  • TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN. WHAT’S NEXT?   

    TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN. WHAT’S NEXT?  

    STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Author’s Note: I want to thank my readers and friends for their encouragement. It is an elixir that pushes me to research deeper, analyze and express better. Please keep your comments and suggestions coming. There is no way of safeguarding respect in a defeat unless the victor is gracious and…

  • SERIOUS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL THREATS LOOMING

    SERIOUS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL THREATS LOOMING

    STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan It was August 2002 when I last visited Kabul. I was accompanied by Niaz Ali Shah, a scion of the Syed family of Peshawar. His father, Syed Taj Mir Shah was a loving elder who mentored me when we were organizing PTI in KP in late nineties. He left us…

  • FIRES ACROSS CONTINENTS- GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE

    FIRES ACROSS CONTINENTS- GLOBAL WARMING IS HERE

    STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan It is time to wake up. We are facing the biggest threat ever to mankind – Global warming is here; we have summer temperatures never experienced before. What have we done to mother earth in the last hundred years? We have polluted the air, plundered natural resources, devastated forests, contaminated…