As far as the likelihood of Pakistan becoming a colony of China is concerned, this writer has no doubt that it is a matter of time when this becomes officially a reality.  Pakistan has no friends in the world.  China is the only big brother it has who again is not doing any favor to Pakistan by extending their economic arm to keep Pakistan floating, but instead they are pursuing their long term objectives to expand their territorial ambition.  As we know, to a greater extent, they have achieved this objective by lending enormous amount of money to Sri Lankla, Tajikstan and other countries.  They find financially vulnerable countries, lend them money at a higher interest rate to develop their infrastructure.  When they cann't pay that loan back, Chinese occupy their territory on a long term lease basis.  Pakistan is their next target.  China has realized that they cann't militarily attack other countries to flex their tentacles to achieve their territorial ambition, rather the government has made a decision to use their economic muscles to occupy others' territories wherever possible.  

Coming back to the scenario of Pakistan, CPEC was and is a trap for Pakistan to achieve Chinese long term objective.  Pakistan has taken a loan at a higher interest rate and now with the dwindling economic situation, it cann't repay the loan.  Hence, they have become a victim of Chinese game.  According to the press reports and economic experts, Pakistan needs around $35 Billion dollars to be able to pay the impending dues and be able to float.  Because Pakistan has only around $10 Billion left in the exchequer to take care of imports and other needs which is good enough for couple of months.  Then what?

Predicated on the diplomatic and political scenario in the USA, it appears that IMF will not lend them any money because there is an understanding here that Pakistan will use that money to pay off Chinese debt of CPEC.  Then the question is, where else Pakistan can go with a begging bowl to get a doze of survival?  For the in-coming government of Imran Khan, it is going to be a very crucial dilemma.  He will be a genius if he is able to find a solution of this conundrum.  The quick solution could be to some extent, if and if at all, the IMF decides to bail them out, Pakistan should be ready to scratch the on going CPEC project to satisfy the pressure from the US government on the IMF.  IMF can ask for many more contingencies before it lends any dollar to Pakistan.  It is a very precarious economic situation for Pakistan and they do not hold any trump card at all.

Here goes Mr. Owaisi again with his vitriolic and polarizing statement exciting Muslim community to vote only for Muslim candidates. He says that in India Muslim community has been forced to stay quiet when he is the most outspoken MP in the Indian Parliament. He speaks loudly, brazenly and openly without any muzzle on his mouth. Instead of working with the central and local governments to initiate some steps to uplift the Muslim community, he is always exciting his community to go anti-national. He is the best enemy of his community, most opportunist and self-centered person. I just hope the other moderate Muslim leaders work against him in the next election and choose some moderate candidate to represent them because with Mr. Owaissi in the Parliament, Muslim community will not be represented in a true sense.

The situation in Kashmir is a prolonged political headache.  It cann't be rooted out with dialogues because to conduct fruitful dialogues one needs two sincere and honest parties or sincere broker bringing those two parties involved together.  That scenario does not exist.  What you have is only one sincere and honest party- BJP- at the center which wants to bring everlasting peace in the region.  BJP wants to bring economic development which will create jobs for the locals and keep them busy.  Instead of destroying public and private properties, they will be busy with the livelihood.  However, BJP is facing a constitutional stumbling block which is an Article 370 in the constitution. This article prohibits investment inflow in the region from other parts of the country.  Changing governments or bringing Central or Governor's rule in Kashmir is not the solution.  The only solution to solve this riddle is uplifting the economic condition of the region.  The pressure is on the central government to find ways as to how get rid of an Article 370 from the Constitution.  If there is a serious and sincere desire on the part of politicians to achieve this objective, they have to set aside all the politics and personal grudges and delete an Article 370.  Everything else will follow.

What Ms. Mufti is recommending a very naive solution to this on going Kashmir problem.  I fail to understand the rationale behind this suggestion.  The crux of this on going problem is not what India should do, rather it is what Pakistan should not do which is out-flow of terrorists penetrating into the Indian territory. Secondly, what Ms. Mufti's government should do is to work with the central government and help repeal an Article 370 from the Constitution which will attract outside investment to build manufacturing plants and also assist in the real estate industry.  The increase flow of investment will create lot of jobs to occupy the youngsters.  The indulgence in their occupation will leave them no time to demonstrate in the streets and destroy public and private property. Ms. Mufti, as they say, every problem has a solution.  What is needed is a strong will, national interest and avoidance of party politics.  ARE WE READY FOR THAT?

I am not surprised to see what is happening in UK.  Predicated on a religious faith, one can easily conclude that Christianity is taking a deep dive whereas Islamization (not Muslims) is flourishing all over the world.  It is due to multifaceted reasons, for example, their indoctrination about anti-family planning, regular and disciplined frequency to visit mosques, philosophy of converting non-Muslims and, of course, reinforced it by ingrained element of jihadism.  All these factors are leading to the spread of Islamization all over the world.

As far as UK is concerned, it is the liberal policy of the government which is helpful in bringing Islamization to the forefront.  Muslims have realized (worldwide) how to exploit the liberal tenets of democratic constitution.  So, one should not blame the Muslims if they are building more mosques in the UK, one should rather blame the liberal society which allows the Muslims to achieve this long term objective.  I believe, unless some magic happens, the time is in favor of Muslims.  They can wait as long as it takes to accomplish their long term objective which is to establish Sharia Law worldwide.  White people do not have the backbone to face Muslim onslaught on a worldwide basis.  Hence, the decline of the former.  In UK, the Mayor of London is a Muslim who is very supportive of Muslim community and religion, and when he was visiting Chicago about a year ago, he openly addressed the Muslim community that they do not have to assimilate themselves into the non-Muslim community.  He even confronted the Queen of London on a few issues.  So, to make long story short, my opinion is that the time is not too far when UK along with other countries like Belgium, France and Holland etc. will be facing open Islamization - unless as I said above some magic happens.

This is definitely a step in the right direction.  Unfortunately, it does not create a vehicle to eradicate or at least minimize this societal menace from the society precisely with reason that this will be applicable only in the event of someone raping a minor and not an adult female member of the society.  I wonder if the government does not care about the whole female sect of a country.  Also, not knowing the details yet of this new legislation, this legislation ought not to consist of any ambiguities.  Once the charge is proven, the rapist should be hanged by televising the punishment.  I will go a step further, rapist's asset, if any, should be auctioned and the proceed should be given to the victim or her family.  Secondly, the compliance of this legislation, when approved by the Parliament, should have no partiality.  The rapist irrespective of his affiliation to any society, party and religion should not be treated above the law.

I think one reason, among others, is that this nation is interested in propping up skirmishes here and there by floating pieces of misinformation to test their new missiles and defense equipment.  Predicated on the press reports, the latest attack in Syria by the USA provided an opportunity to test its new missiles coated with the stealth material which was proven to be very effective.  They want to make sure that in the event of a real war, they can rely on their defense armament.  I do not think this country is really interested in winning war, even though it is the ultimate aim of getting involved into any major war, because the continuation of war mongering attitude among different sect of people helps this nation more in the long run.  Needless to say, this nation has so much fire power, it can destroy the earth many a times, but that is not the aim.  They rather see division and ill will among nations which helps this nation economically and militarily.  Also, it helps this nation to maintain its hegemonic status in the world.  What the writer of this article basically is doing is proving the fact that in all wars, USA's participation was required, and that requirement helped this country maintained its super power status till to date.