The Londoner

By Sikander Hayat Life in Pakistan is going through a period of turmoil and President has called a state of emergency but I do not believe it will solve anything in the long run. The country is so polarised between those who favour him and those who want him dead one way or the other that life may be never the same in this country of 160 million people. Every one is on someone else’s payroll as NGOs get paid and do the bidding of western countries generally and USA especially and islamists who get paid by Iran in the case of Shia militants and Saudi Arabia in the case of Sunnis . The land of Pakistan is being used to do battles of which the people of this country are not the part of. Pakistani soldiers are being asked to kill their own people in the name of War on Terror without understanding the consequences of such actions on the ordinary Pakistanis in the form of collateral damage and lost hearts and minds. Today I am feeling very depressed about this situation as the c