Say No To Weapons
March 29, 2019
Intelligence, psy-ops and the war in FATA One need not destroy one’s enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage. ~ Sun […]
March 30, 2019
Is the PM willing to surrender his own weapons? While political statements are often digested with a pinch of salt, the PM’s deweaponisation statement of 24th […]
March 30, 2019
Islamic Republic of private armies On January 25, 2010, a list of beneficiaries was submitted to the National Assembly. It revealed how […]
March 30, 2019
Making DHA a weapon-free zone Right to life and liberty is a fundamental right of all citizens. In the year 2015, Pakistan lost over 10,000 precious […]
March 30, 2019
National Commission for Deweaponisation, Surrender and Control of Weapons – a report prepared for the National Assembly of Pakistan. In many parts of Pakistan, […]
March 30, 2019
Our ‘napping’ brigade “We are in a state of war” is what we get to hear every day. However most Pakistanis seem convinced that the […]
March 30, 2019
Peace, progress and private armies In October 2001, after taking over parts of the Swat, Dir and Korakoram highway in northern Pakistan, Sufi Mohammad […]
March 30, 2019
POF Wah As members of ‘Citizens Against Weapons’, we are deeply concerned at the newspaper reports about the signing of a ‘Letter of Understanding’ between Pakistan […]
March 30, 2019
Chairman, Pakistan Ordinance Factories. A half page advertisement of Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF), the organization that you head, was carried by most national newspapers […]
March 30, 2019
Reluctance to say farewell to arms With each bomb blast, each massacre and each killing, Pakistan as a state fails one more time. How […]
March 30, 2019
SP Soomro – an unsung hero of Pakistan When the champion and defender of men’s right to bury their females alive, an honorable Member of the […]
March 30, 2019
Strike down the Arms Ordinance Parliamentarians in Pakistan are often economical with the truth when it comes to their degrees or declaration of assets. The […]
March 30, 2019
Surrender all weapons – Now Reluctantly but finally Pakistan was drawn into an inescapable battle that it ought to have initiated many moons back – […]
March 30, 2019
The 60-40 ratio As a citizen of Pakistan, I would like to have the right not to hand over my mobile phone to every other […]
March 30, 2019
The ‘bunker mentality’ A society living on the edges of extreme defensiveness and self-justification often based on an exaggerated sense of insecurity, is likely to run into at least four major […]
March 30, 2019
The first two steps Blessed are the rulers of Pakistan who have the time to take off for ‘Umrahs’ and seclude themselves in saintly ‘aitekafs’. […]
March 30, 2019
The last rites So where do we go from here? The ‘shaheed’ and the ‘injured’ compensation packages have been announced, a three day mourning has […]
March 30, 2019
Politics of prohibited bore Naeem Sadiq The News 16 June 2015 Few appeasements entice a Pakistani politician more than a prohibited-bore weapon license. Needless […]