The sensitivity and gravity of the said letter-gate dawned upon the ruling regime when ten of its MNAs jumped the fence on March 18, its allies started hobnobbing with the PDM leaders and NCM was admitted on March 25.

It is generally propagated in the Pakistani press that Pakistan's armed forces gobble up a major chunk of the federal budget. Depending upon the hostility of the media person, this allocation varies between 40 and 80 percent of the budget.

If the people's mandate is manipulated this time, there will be trouble. A free and fair election is the only way forward. The establishment will have to establish its neutrality. History sides with the righteous, the forces of honesty will prevail over the dishonest in a fair contest.

Other geophysical hazards (volcanic activity, mass movements) and hydrological hazards (landslides) had a low occurrence in 2021 and resulted in relatively minor human and economic losses compared to other types of disasters recorded in EM-DAT.

From the 1970s onward, Washington made continued efforts to erode General Assad's position. There was the 1982 Hama revolt in western Syria, which resulted in a decisive victory for Assad's Syrian Army.

When the Baloch Sardars talk about the rights of the Baloch people, they mean themselves. All the cultivable land, water resources, and grazing grounds are the private property of these chieftains. The common man ekes out a miserable life in Balochistan.

Civilizations have come and gone. With the inability to look into the future with certainty humans tend to find answers & solace in their past. And what is better to a humiliating present than a glorified past.

Russian revanchist behavior will have dangerous ramifications for Ukraine in terms of the food security crisis, mass migration, killing of a segment of the civilian population, rehabilitation processes, and a shattering economy in Eastern Europe.

For the US, the only challenger that matters in more than just the economic calculations has been China. The U.S has been weighing options to contain the Chinese economic, military and to a lesser extent, cultural stretch in Asia and beyond.

While using Pakistan as bait for the Russian bear, the Americans, with their characteristic duplicity, told ISI that it would be on its own and that no maps of the Soviet territory would be provided. It was not that their satellites were not taking pictures.

The massive increase in fuel costs will lead to hyperinflation, plummeting the already dismal popularity of the Sharif family. Governance will become a nightmare, more so as IK’s call for fresh elections gains further momentum.

These are all ‘slogans without substance’ where nations wallow in the filth of their own creation while these catchphrases are loudly broadcasted only to silence the multitudes who question the leadership as to what road they are on being taken down.