Monday, October 11, 2010
Brigadier (r) A R Siddiqi
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) the maverick Irish novelist, playwright and poet is best known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray—the weird account of a handsome young aristocrat gone rotten in body and soul. Dorian’s portrait, a great ...

Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Brig A R Siddiqi
KARACHI: Phase-I of the Kayani Initiative to secure status quo, is complete. Phase-II of the initiative would come into play after next hearing of the case and the final verdict of the Court. Depending on the nature of the verdict ...

Saturday, September 04, 2010
Brig A R Siddiqi
Pakistan stands disrobed exposing the rot at the root: warts and all. It faces the dire challenge at three levels, each at the high water mark. First and foremost, the raging deluge engulfing roughly half of Sindh - urban and rural; ...

Friday, June 25, 2010
Brig A R Siddiqi
The Jang and Times of India (Groups) initiative in promoting enduring understanding, accord and peace between the two surgical twins-India-Pakistan - is indeed most timely and laudable. Its sheer endurance over the past several ...

Thursday, June 10, 2010
Brig A R Siddiqi
"The India-US ties are fundamentally unique," says President Barrack Obama well ahead of his visit to India in November. The ties between the two unequal powers and two of the world's 'largest democracies' – one being the world's ...

Monday, January 04, 2010
Brig (r) A R Siddiqi
Yet again the army finds itself caught between the devil of a mushrooming tribal insurgency and the deep blue sea of palace “conspiracies.” The president, in his fiery oration on Dec 27 from Garhi Khuda Baksh all but confirmed the ...

Saturday, December 19, 2009
A R Siddiqi
The counsel for the federation, Mr Kamal Azfar, appearing in the Supreme Court in the case of the infamous NRO, now struck down ab initio by the apex court, called the GHQ a "a bad boy" and the Army chief a "gentleman." He said, ...