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WEF Davos this year

This year session has been entirely consumed by two perplexing issues of the global community. First has been the Economic Meltdown, due to which very few countries are actually enthralled in any other problem or concern. Investors have been accusing the bankers but they are not ready to accept it entirely. They blame those that convinced Senators in Washington to relax the credit regime.

The bankers also accuse the American consumers for spending much more than their capacities through buying expensive loans. Here is however, a point that none have been pointing to, is the expensive wars at the cost of tax-payers money. But there is a reason for not finding such a complaint. The whole of the investors and consumers eye the US govt. salvage plans and the more hyped "stimulus bail-out".

The second enthrallment of the session has been the Gaza carnage, where the Israel is still trumpeting its right to defend itself. The real climax has been the walkout by Turkish President Tayyeph Erdogan. His walkout has been highly commended in the Muslim world, though not met favorably in the pro-Israel countries. However the Israeli account is very hard to be bought in face value and the casualties and disaster it has unleashed is by and large irrecoverable.

US Foreign Policy versus Pakistan vision: Afghan perspective

The US criminal negligence to the carnage in Gaza, the catastrophe unleashed by the Israeli jets and tanks, on the unarmed civilians of Gaza. The premise is very hard to be digested. The doctrine of preemptive strikes have been a real source of terror since it was first propounded.

On the Afghanistan there is a change in the US strategy but not still apt to the plight of the adversity. The military strategy of "surge", when there should be a political and diplomatic surge, is brought in place with little acknowledgment for the rudiments of the Afghan problem and its containment.

Even if they do care about anything other than fish for more resources and strive for further supremacy, it would be the expenses of the war. But then the US economy is so great that it will sustain this war, thus making things worse for Pakistan.

Pakistan is participating in a gamble of "great game" but not for any fortune. It is playing for its survival since the gamble is played at the fortune of it. Consequentially Pakistan will opt out of the policy of adhere to the US objectives. Thereby a Global War is eminent.

The drone attacks have been counter-productive and providing the “war cry” to the militancy. But the US is not here to safeguard the vested interests of Pakistan. It has overlooked the rudiments and the basic fundamentals to establish peace, in order to destabilize the region further. The drug mafia all around the world already thriving at this objective of the US, since there has been witnessed a mark increase in the land under poppy cultivation from 38000 acres in 2003-04 to 400 thousand acres today, that too range from 40 miles outward from Kabul.

The war is inevitable and indispensable for Pakistan and the struggling South, for the American premise of bringing peace, stability and democracy to the world has failed miserably over the period ever America being the perpetrator.

The only way out for specifically Pakistan and generally the struggling to ever taste the moments of peace again, it will only be in an all out challenging war to this status quo. That was what happened in WWII. Only from the ashes of a decisive war will emerge a new world order, where the Americans will no more be the Charge de affairs and at least a new promising gentle nation shall be at the helm of affairs. Without war peace is not possible, rather not imaginable.

Sectarian Portrait

I fail to understand why are people trying to portray every untoward incident in Pakistan and for that matter in troubled Pakhtunkhwa (former NWFP) to their "sectarian backdrop" for instance shia-sunni, deobandi-wahabi, pashtun-punjabi taliban conflict. The cynicism is touching the lowest ebb and about every triviality is published and broadcasted with religious enthusiasm. The media and intelligentsia too shares the blame. After all they tend to justify the unjustified claim of the biased west that all Muslims are "intolerant". Our internal pseudo-philosophers should understand this serves none, not even America. The Americans have been endeavoured diplomatically with great pain to be convinced (as options too are very scarce save diplomatic) that their drone attacks are counterproductive. Even the Britains and Germans are cognizant of this fact. It is, however, felt that America seeks its interest in dividing the muslim world. This fact is very much evident in its biased policy towards middle East, where it banishes Iran for pursuing peaceful nuclear energy, but never suspects the aspirations of Israel for that matter. Their criminal silence and ignorance on the Gaza carnage is not for the time a testimony to their share in the venture. Moreover, it has been fuelling fueds between Iran and the Gulf Sheikhdoms. It is comprehensible that why it promotes the case of Sheikhs' right to Civil Nuclear Power so graciously. Thus the assertion is not unfounded that the world is not going to find peace even for a moment onwards, unless a decisive war like the one WWII, that settled the ground for new world order. The new world is propagated religiously by America and the zions, but sugarcoated with the assumption that the fruits of such a mass reshuffle shall be favouable to the supremacy of America and its cronies.

Global Economic Meltdown

Recession is on the run at large and the prices of inputs are surging to sky rocketing levels. The driving economy of the world the US is under siege with the mortgage crisis and overall economic meltdown. US greater interdependence on Chinese credit is fast going to diminish in case China itself is overcome by the inflationary trends and decline in the purchase power of the consumers. The massive chunk of dollars Chinese foreign reserves of dollars, shall after all prove decisive and perhaps fatal if in case China is pushed hard to revise the International trade to its own favor.

Having said that the staple commodities are following the suit as well. The denovo utility of food staples as the organic fuel is redirecting the demand and supply trends. Speculations have got involved due to greater demand and hence investments are subject to increase. This in turn is further galvanizing the inflationary trends in to a nightmare of famine for the developing countries.

The resolve of the OPEC to increase or bring the oil prices to a stable level, shall by and large be a news very perplexing for the world leading economies. Added agony is the Russian resurgence and will to levy its share out of the oil pipelines and command its mastership to a regional balance in its favor. With this confidence Russia has been able to intimidate the otherwise "sheepish" and "acquiesced" American with the favorable regime changes and rope in more nations to its vested interests and supremacy.

Bollywood going Global

Shahrukh Khan challenges Hollywood

So to create a stir in the global order, Shahrukh Khan challenges Hollywood to reveal stories and characters, the way bollywood has specialized.. what Shahrukh has failed to say that Bollywood has to translate hollywood movies to the south Asians, in order to understand their original themes.. Will ever Bollywood achieve a status where its indigenous creativity in movie, script, stories, dance and music.. India is for the time being feeding on oriental as well western musics, scripts and themes.. This year India needs to be awarded with the Nobel award for Global copycat [rather monkey] of the century!!!

More power however, has been yielded by the tremours of a financial crunch which has dragged the mat from beneath the feet of Big budget movies of the year, produced by the top guns in the industry. The real temptation and resilience is however maintained in case of the Khans, with Akka Khan this year amassed unprecedented 1 billion from the only the year end block bluster "Ghajini".

However, distribution Line Mergers [in other words forward integration] is real step forward toward globalization of the bollywood!! Shahrukh especially has discovered new markets for his movies, so he is sure anything he comes with, is bought on face value..

clemency of climate in Pakistan and the region

The cold breeze from Siberia are blowing these days (January 2008) in Pakistan, that has made chill of epic proportion. Energy sector has not been able to hedge the necessary heat requirements and the electricity shortage too is affecting severely. Swat under turmoil, is adversely affected by cold spell and record breaking snowfall, analogous only to 1984. The prices of Gas and firewood here have been selling at skyrocketed prices.