This week we celebrate the two year anniversary of this Blog. Over the past year, the readership of the Blog has been become larger and more global. We have been told that many readers send the articles via email to their own private networks. That may account for the diverse nature of comments we get from…
Every few weeks we publish the list of Top 10 Articles of this Blog. These are articles that rank the highest in terms of viewer hits since the Blog’s inception. Some of the articles in the Top 10 list are also our personal favorites. For example, the highest ranked article on the Blog is also our…
A Pakistani-American went to the Af-Pak border area of North Waziristan. He stayed there for 5 months and learned the rudiments of building a bomb. He returned to Connecticut and built a bomb in his home. He drove to New York City, parked his SUV in Times Square and set off the bomb. By the grace of God, the…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
Last Sunday, we watched the 60 Minutes episode Jihadists And “The Narrative” . In this segment, Lesley Stahl and her main guest, Majid Nawaz, met with students from Peshawar & Swat for a One Day Workshop for Tackling Extremism in Pakistan. The objective was to change their minds about the narrative that America is out to destroy Islam. In this meeting, Lesley Stahl…
This week, Matthew Rosenberg of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article about President Karzai’s trip to India titled Mr. Karzai Comes to New Delhi. In this article, Mr. Rosenberg described the competition between India & Pakistan for influence in Afghanistan. Mr. Rosenberg began by stating that “…for India – and of course Pakistan – the…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to this series…
There are two changes to the Top 10 list since our last update on March 12, 2010: An old favorite The Greatest Publishing Project of Recent Years – Conceived & Implemented in America has re-entered the list in the 10th place. The article Shabana Azmi on “Indian Democracy is unfair to Muslims” – Our views and…
Every Financial Television Network lauds Warren Buffet and invites him as a guest on its shows. This enables the Network to bask in the reflected glory of Mr. Buffet. As the most trusted name in Financial Markets, Mr. Buffet is also a huge ratings draw. So a Buffet appearance is a high revenue event for Financial…
Henry Kravis is a legendary investor and philanthropist. In 1976, Mr. Kravis with two partners founded Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts a firm that pioneered the development of private equity. In total, his firm has completed over 165 transactions with a total acquisition price of approximately $422 billion. Mr. Kravis clearly has demonstrated a great ability…