Ayaz Amir Archive
وہ سب ایران سے خوف زدہ کیوں ہیں؟ – ایاز امیر: حجاز کی مقدس سرزمین سے تعلق رکھنے والے ہمارے دوستوں، اور خلیج سے ہمارے کچھ دیگر احباب کے لیے داعش ایک مسئلہ تو ہے، لیکن حقیقی دشمن نہیں۔ ان کے نزدیک حقیقی دشمن، اور جس کے نام سے اُنہیں
Legends of the mandate – Ayaz Amir: So someone has blown the whistle on high-flying beneficiaries of offshore companies/holdings. And among the lucky souls are our very own scions of the Mandate: the two sons, Hussain and Hasan, and the daughter being groomed for a
The shrine that is the Lahore Museum – Ayaz Amir: On Sunday with my son Sheheryar I went to the Lahore Museum after a long time. The word epiphany, or revelation, I find is a bit over-used these days but it was very much like that. I have stood
Iran, Hezbollah and Russia – the real coalition – Ayaz Amir: Daesh or the Islamic State is the most extreme form of Salafist Islam, so toxic that it makes the Taliban look mild and Al-Qaeda look like a backward cousin. Al-Qaeda was only an ideology, Daesh is ideology plus geography.
The West still not getting it – Ayaz Amir: The present turmoil began from Syria and from the desire of a range of countries, western and Arab and including Turkey, to get rid of Bashar al-Assad. By aiding the opposition to Assad they helped fuel the fires of
Pakistan’s most un-Pakistani institution – Ayaz Amir: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation is an aberration that doesn’t fit into the national landscape. The creed animating its work is pure craziness: that the sick are entitled to not just free treatment, from start to finish,
Takfiri terrorist Malik Ishaq failed to read the shift in the national landscape – by Ayaz Amir: Ultimately what got Malik Ishaq, the doyen of Pakistan’s sectarian terrorists, was not his commitment to violence but his failure to read the shift in the national landscape. He got away with murder – to accuse him of
Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji’s comment on Ayaz Amir’s commendable column on Axact: One of the most balanced articles on AXACT that highlight the staggering hypocrisy of Pakistan’s elitist liberals. Pakistanis, especially Shia muslims are being massacred daily. Christians are being regularly attacked. The Punjab provincial government, lead by Shahbaz Sharif; the
A comment on Seymour Hersh’s report on the Abbottabad raid on the Bin Laden compound – by Ayaz Amir: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/may2015-daily/13-05-2015/col1.html The grandmother of all embarrassments Even when we suspected the worst but did not know all the facts, the Abbottabad raid on the Bin Laden compound was the mother of all embarrassments…for the army and the ISI,
Primary and secondary terrorism: Ismaili Shia massacre in Karachi – Ayaz Amir: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/may2015-daily/16-05-2015/col2.htm Primary and secondary terrorism: the circles of hell The MQM is a problem and has been a problem. But let’s be clear about one thing: it is a secondary problem, as are the gangs of Lyari, as
Perhaps the Houbaras would approve Pakistan’s decision to stay clear of Saudi aggression on Yemen – by Ayaz Amir: There’s always the brighter side of things. A bit of Arab anger following our waffling but intrinsically sound stand on Yemen may hold the promise of some good. If this anger extends to the point where Arab sheikhs and
Ayaz Amir’s analysis of Saudi war on Yemen: The army has to decide, not (hapless) civilians We should be able to cut through the simulated confusion. If Pakistan gets into any part of the Yemen mess, if Pakistani troops are sent or not sent, if Pakistan gets
The Saudis’ friends should have spoken up earlier – Ayaz Amir: The advice that the kingdom’s friends are giving it now they should have given earlier when the Saudi royals, made nervous and paranoid by Iran, were getting ready to strike at Yemen. Now that, putting their prestige and standing
What’s wrong with the world of Islam? – Ayaz Amir: Look at the mess Muslim states are making of their affairs. From Tunisia to Yemen, Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan, the whole world of Islam is in turmoil. Pakistan has its own share of troubles, a unique republic with
Ayaz Amir’s analysis of the Rangers’ selective operation against MQM: The Urdu-speaking population which migrated from India at the time of Partition came in two categories: 1) the upper-crust or the elite class which settled in such places as Clifton, Bath Island, PECHS and later Defence; and 2) the
کالعدم دھشت گرد جماعت کے سربراہ احمد لدھیانوی کا مضحکہ خیز دعوی: پاکستان کا ہر شیعہ کالعدم ہے: طالبان، لشکر جھنگوی اور سپاہ صحابہ کے تکفیری خوارج کے خلاف پاک فوج کے آپریشن ضرب عضب سے گھبرا کر کالعدم تکفیری دیوبندی دھشت گرد جماعت کے سربراہ احمد لدھیانوی نے پاکستان کے کروڑوں شیعہ مسلمانوں کو کالعدم قرار
Attractions of the Islamic State – Ayaz Amir: Here is something for the Pakistani privilegentsia to consider. Something like the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham – Isis or Daish – would have catastrophic consequences for them, putting an end to their privileged lifestyles or forcing them
TTP-ASWJ’s war on Pakistan and the National Action Plan: War by Committee – Ayaz Amir: Loadshedding we tackled with rhetoric. Terrorism is being tackled by something better: rhetoric and committee meetings. Not a day goes by without another meeting, apex this and apex that, army chief and ISI chief dutifully attending…and looking glum
From these terrified men what can we expect? – Ayaz Amir: The country’s two leading politicians are now Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan (mercifully not anymore Asif Zardari, and even more mercifully not the likes of Khursheed Shah). Nawaz Sharif is terrified of the Taliban and not in a hundred
Ayaz Amir’s clear discourse on Deobandi takfiri terrorism: What should Pakistan’s Christians do? November 07, 2014 There had always been in Pakistan the Deobandi school of thought, co-existing easily and without conflict with other denominations and sects of Islam. The occasional sectarian clash did occur but it
From these terrified men what can we expect? – Ayaz Amir: The country’s two leading politicians are now Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan (mercifully not anymore Asif Zardari, and even more mercifully not the likes of Khursheed Shah). Nawaz Sharif is terrified of the Taliban and not in a hundred
The debt we owe the army and PAF – Ayaz Amir: Amidst fierce fighting three more of our soldiers died on Sunday in a remote spot close to the Afghan border in North Waziristan. This was another reminder, if any were needed, of the grimness of the conflict raging there
What should Pakistan’s Christians do? – Ayaz Amir: Once upon a time under-class Mohajirs in Karachi, residents not of Clifton and Defence but depressed localities, used to be an object of scorn for other communities, regularly picked upon by the mostly Punjabi police and treated roughly
Accuse Tahir url Qadri of anything but…. – Ayaz Amir: The New Pakistan if it is to mean anything has to be a repudiation of all the detritus and obsolescence accumulated in the name of the faith. Whatever happened in the past is over and done with. Ziaul Haq
ڈاکٹر طاہر القادری سنی ، شیعہ اور اقلیتوں کے حقوق کی بات کر کے نیۓ پاکستان کی بنیاد رکھ رہے ہیں – ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2014-daily/18-10-2014/col2.htm
نواز شریف کی خارجہ پالیسی ناکام – ایاز امیر اور نذیر ناجی: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2014-daily/15-10-2014/col1.html Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-10-16&edition=LHR&id=38718_33490925
Bilawal, B Team of the PML-N, says Imran Khan should learn politics from the Bhuttos – Ayaz Amir: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2014-daily/11-10-2014/col1.html The old tottering, the new struggling to be born – Ayaz Amir Sounds a bit dramatic, the title, doesn’t it? But I get the feeling that hesitantly, without most of us fully realising it, a new
عمران خان ، طاہر القادری ، عوامی تحریک اور آئی ایس آیی کی حمایت کی کہانیاں – از ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/oct2014-daily/01-10-2014/col1.html
عمران خان اور طاہر القادری کی قوت ارادی کی جیت – ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/24-09-2014/col1.html
Imran Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri’s sit-ins in Islamabad are now an exercise in extended boredom – Ayaz Amir: There’s something like too much of a good thing. Have the twin bozos of the Reverend Qadri and Imran Khan – for this is the title their over-stretched antics are earning for them – not heard of the
The timeless fatalism of the Subcontinent – by Ayaz Amir: Real leaders, as opposed to the tinsel variety, don’t go for photo ops – where sympathy is faked and sentiment is manufactured. They see to it that things happen, which after all is their real job instead of grandstanding
There is no future for the young in the PML-N, none in the PPP – by Ayaz Mir: If there was a conspiracy and this is the outcome, the conspirators deserve a long stint in purgatory – or what the Chinese used to call a re-education camp. After the long marches and the dharnas what do we
Islamabad sit-ins: The inevitable against PM Nawaz Sharif postponed, not averted – by Ayaz Amir: If the bugles had been sounded on Sunday evening when the corps commanders met, and if what is now an apology of a government had been given its marching orders, no one would have been surprised. A country
اشرافیہ کی دائمی حکومت کا نام جمہوریت نہیں – از ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/sep2014-daily/03-09-2014/col2.htm
Pakistan’s velvet marches: A comment on Tahir ul Qadri and Imran Khan’s sit-ins in Islamabad – Ayaz Amir: Boys and girls dance in the PTI rallies in Constitution Avenue, fume the clerics of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam led by Pakistan’s leading political acrobat, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, with his uncanny ability to be part of every power setup no
The Nawaz Sharif government’s inertia has pushed matters to where they stand today – by Abbas Nasir: THE scenario looks bleak. No compromise seems to be in sight to break the current political impasse, if you can call it that. Watching the sordid drama being played out live on TV is depressing. Where do we
Nawaz Sharif government now stands reduced to the Prime Minister’s House – Ayaz Amir: Fatal turn…when courage could have saved the day What accounts for the decline and fall of the Sharif power enterprise? Hubris and misjudgments have played their role but a lack of moral courage at a crucial juncture is also
نواز حکومت کی آخری رسومات کی تیاری – از ایاز امیر: Source: http://jang.com.pk/jang/aug2014-daily/20-08-2014/col1.html ایڈیٹر نوٹ : پاکستان کے موجودہ حالات کے ذمہ دار اگر کوئی ہے تو وہ سب سے زیادہ خود نواز شریف ہیں جن کی ہٹ دھرمی حالات کو آج اس نہج پر لے آی ہے کہ جہاں
تکفیری قوتیں ڈاکٹر قادری کے معتدل اسلام سے خوف زدہ ہیں – از ایاز امیر: Source: http://e.dunya.com.pk/colum.php?date=2014-08-18&edition=LHR&id=35367_88660650 http://www.qudrat.com.pk/2014/08/123872
Inqilab March: Ayaz Amir appreciates Sunni Sufi, Barelvi and Shia alliance against Takfiri Deobandis – by Riaz Al-Malik Hajjaji: Ayaz Amir has deserted the Good Liberal Club of Pakistan. In this club, membership privileges are based on one’s ability to suck up to other liberals. Being a Good Liberal means never having to develop your own thinking but