Author: Saki Nama
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Nothing Permanent & Nothing Personal
William Clay said, “This is quite a game, politics. There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests.” Don Vito Corleone said, “Keep your friends close, but enemies closer.” Nicolo Machiavelli wrote a whole book ‘The Prince’ on this topic. This all is nothing personal, strictly business. So, opponents of Khan must…
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Clowns for Clowns
If you are supporting any political party right now – be it PTI, PPP, PMLN, PLMQ, MQM, JUF or TLP – you are more into submission than into conscientiousness. His Highness is for civil supremacy; be it any form attained through parliamentary politics. Anti-establishment and anti-milbus. And none of these parties are up to this.…
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All In One… Boot
Ok! We have seen so much and so many lickers since the beginning, but Shahbaz Sharif is defining a new low. Very low low. Remember Faisal Vawda? He brought a boot in a TV show and placed it on the table. Like it’s the constitution. Which it is. Is it? It is. And that was…
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The Pain in Expats’ Arse
The pain of expats is pretty hypocritical. While looking for stable economies abroad, their hearts melt for a rocky economy at home. While praying and voting for liberal democrats abroad, they hope for conservative rightists at home. While offering prayers in mosques in west, they know nothing about state’s attitude towards minorities at home. While…
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Random Numbness (Feb 2022)
This world is a comedy of tragedies. And errors. Not precisely. One of the blunders in our history was Liaquat Ali Khan’s visit to America in 1950. In a polarized world, he chose a pole instead of staying in the neutral zone. And today, we are witnessing another blunder. Our PM is in Russia while…
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Random Numbness – Hated Ideas and Nostalgia
Cold War between America and USSR made the way to space. Just to attack each other’s capital at a distance of 7,816-km through rockets, the two went up in the air. Up, up, Until space. And then moon. Cold War is the reason that world is getting into the extended universe today. Interstellar. Capitalism is…
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After Murree
PM: What’s this new mess? Fawad: I lost the count at 100,000. We were doing really great. PM: 22 is the count idiot. And you? Sheikh: I am an interior minister. That snow is not my concern. PM: Trains were not your concern either. You broke the news, right? Sheikh: Habitually. PM: Okay, so what’s…
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Brief History of Religion
Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war is: Do not march on Moscow. Napoleon did. Hitler did. Both perished. But Napoleon’s march and failure gave us Tolstoy’s ‘War & Peace’ at least. I wrote this because its winter and nothing else. You know, we – homo sapiens – have a long history.…
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Random Numbness (Dec 2021)
You are stupid. Have you ever realized this? Things around you – society, norms, values and interpretation of the religion – are here to make and keep you stupid. And you hardly ever disappoint. This government came in power with the promise that the foreigners and expats will come back for jobs. The other day,…
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Martial Races
After 1857 Mutiny, British India started to recruit specific people in their military based on their history of faithfulness. Punjabis (including Indian Punjab) and Pashtuns were on top and were recruited with favoritism as they stood faithful to English against their own fellow citizens during the mutiny. This is the base of theory of martial…