YOU WANT CHANGE? ALLOW OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS TO VOTE. Part II
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan It is fulfilling for a writer when the readers respond overwhelmingly. Thank you everyone. Allowing Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) the…
YOU WANT CHANGE? ALLOW OVERSEAS PAKISTANIS TO VOTE. Part 1
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Sometimes a thought keeps percolating in your mind; you want to do something about it but other things crop…
HOW WILL PM IK PLAY ON THE BACK FOOT?
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan It is cricketing season so it is inevitable that this game’s analogies come to mind. The events unfolding on…
A Q KHAN: WHY CAN’T WE RESPECT OUR HEROES?
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan We live in the moment as a nation. Be it a national debacle like the loss of East Pakistan,…
PANDORA PAPERS: FURTHER PROOF OF ELITE CAPTURE
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Pandora Papers are a reality check. Really and truly the political divide is a façade. There are the takers…
PTI’s BIGGEST POLITICAL FOE IS FOOD INFLATION
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan I was talking to Barkat Bibi. She goes around different households to cook food on a contract basis. Formerly…
POWER BLOCS FLEXING THEIR MUSCLES
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Those of us who have been around long enough would recollect the hijacking of an Indian aircraft “Ganga” in…
WILL CANADA VEER RIGHT DESPITE PITFALLS?
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan Elections in Canada can be boring when compared to the razzmatazz of a Pakistani campaign. The Canadian election writ…
PREDICTIONS FAIL AS AFGHANS COME INTO THEIR OWN
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan September 6th was celebrated as the “Day of the Martyrs”, offering the ultimate sacrifice for the Motherland is a…
TALIBAN NEED TO APPLY BALM TO BRUISED EGOS
STRAIGHT TALK by Hafeez Khan NATO forces landed in Afghanistan as “deliverers”; twenty years later they ended up being the occupiers. How did this…