Brig (R) Mehboob Qadir
Posts by Brig (R) Mehboob Qadir:
Just Why Should It Be So
There are billions of people on earth connected through a network of humanity, compassion and care. Dormant but thankfully much less visible are the base instincts of violence and the…
Pulwama An Equilibrium Of Deterrence That Fell Apart
The February 14 Pulwama blast has turned out to be truly a defining moment in relations between India and Pakistan in more ways than one. The perspective canvas of the…
Welcome The New Year With A Prayer
New Year is upon us. 2018 had been a tumultuous year for Pakistan. It was like a live volcano continuously rumbling with potentially destructive eruptions, everyone was on its wit’s…
Good Politics Or Good Governance
Agreement reached with TLP after negotiations was a sign of good politics done with little fanfare and defused their agitation within four days before it could pick up pace. Unlike…
Notice The Difference
Recently Asif Zardari, his sister and three of their main henchmen were called before the Banking Court. These fellows are not yet convicted but are accused of laundering astronomical volumes…
US Stops Military Aid To Pakistan
The US Secretary Defence is reported to have decided to withhold $300 million in aid to Pakistan to ‘change in its behaviour’ towards the US conceived and designed War on…
Between Perfidy & Dignity
As a rule wealth that is stolen is gleefully plundered once again by those left behind. Saddam Hussain’s famous palace, Muammar Gaddafi’s gold dinner sets, Hosni Mubarak’s billions of dollars…
Turtle On A Post
This is a brilliantly mischievous story with which many of us may be familiar, yet at the pain of repetition it is worth revisiting as it has a powerful lesson…
Our Depleted Sense Of Heritage
In the madness of meeting timelines, project goals and catching up with loads of office work ,one tends to forget the value of ‘strategic time out’ even if it is…
Our Depleted Sense Of Heritage
Amidst the chaos of managing busy schedules for meetings, project goals, and deadlines, one tends to underestimate the value of ‘strategic time out’, even if it is only for few…
A Taste Of Their Own Medicine
The latest election of Chairman and Deputy Chairman Senate has made history in many ways.It has been an exception in brilliance in our otherwise dull and devious political landscape; barren…
Irresponsible Guests And Intrusive Media
One cannot but admire and be heartily thankful for the immense liberty of expression and vast readership provided by the social media, particularly to those who are suffering from state,…
Do Not Kill A Mocking Bird
Little Zainub was destroyed in Kasur by a maniac. She lost her life needlessly and so have been lost hundreds of thousands of lives of defenseless children, women and men…
Trumpeze
A trapeze is a familiar circus gadget for certain entertaining acrobatics and unusual athletics. It normally is a part of a larger circus where trained animals show their skills and…
Hagia Sophia’s Pitchers
The Hagia Sophia was built in 537AD as a grand Orthodox Christian basilica in Istanbul and remained so till the Ottoman conquest in 1453 when it was converted into a…
Vikings Of Qilla Abdullah
On 23rd June, a traffic sergeant on duty at an intersection in a posh locality in Quetta was run over by a speeding Land Cruiser in broad day light. There…
The Judge That Never Was
From time to time, Pakistan has been hit by floods, famine, earthquakes, failed monsoons, locust and human-made disasters like war, and sectarian militancy.Al-Qaeda and all varieties of terrorism that followed…
Last Men Standing
On 12 April 2017, humanity, a man’s right to life and belief and the passage to peaceful disagreement and constructive dissent, were annihilated in Wali Khan University, Mardan as the…
Republic Of Forgotten Truths And Remembered Illusions
The other day while reading irrepressible Arunadhati Roy’s very substantive compilation The Hanging of Afzal Guruand the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament(December 2001), I came across…
Tell Me Where Do I Belong To
Tall, strong and shady trees do not grow in thin air, shifting sands or swamps. Our sturdy Bunyan is a local tree which stands majestically in the firm soil through…
We Have Lost Our Marbles
We lost our social cohesion and civil anchorage, in fact, our place in history, when River Hakra, the legendary Saraswati, turned away from us thousands of years ago. It was…
The Mud Hut
Somewhere in rural Punjab, a poor peasant family was moving from one hamlet to another in search of better opportunities to earn their meagre bread. As they trudged on their…
