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Fatehullah Kundi on 7, May 2012 | 2 Comments
Unfortunately it’s in the very nature of our ruling hierarchy to never pursue with determination the desired goals and objectives of any policy or plan after being proposed and passed by the concern...
Asif Punjwani on 1, May 2012 | 10 Comments
Capitalism isn’t a new idea. It has been around for the last 5000 years where Gold, Silver, Copper, Salt and other scarce commodities were used as money. It is Banking and its Fractional Reserve Ban...
Fatehullah Kundi on 27, Apr 2012 | 10 Comments
Once again Uncle Sam has sternly sabotaged the repute & dignity of our venerable Parliament House through the annunciation of their ferine intentions to carry on the Drone strikes against militant...
Aneka Chohan on 12, Apr 2012 | 3 Comments
Before I begin this piece, let me first clarify the definition of a terrorist. In the past decade, the world – both Western and Eastern sides – have faced countless terrifying scenarios following ...
Beena Sarwar on 6, Apr 2012 | 23 Comments
Watching “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”, an hour-long documentary film about how a small band of women came together to bring an end to the bloody civil war in Liberia, it struck me that their appr...
Sarah Sikandar on 2, Apr 2012 | 20 Comments
For starters, let me strictly define a common American (No, Kim Kardashian in not a common American). Common American refers to a software techie who makes a hundred thousand dollars a year, a woman...
Aisha Aijaz on 19, Mar 2012 | 9 Comments
Rachel Corrie, beautiful soul, born in Olympia, Washington was no ordinary child, no ordinary 23 year old student and no ordinary human being. And people, who are extraordinary, never die. They live...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 28, Feb 2012 | 15 Comments
The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, in fact it’s not even past. The past lives on and smoulders in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat. Ten years after the worst communal massacre in the 21st cent...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 20, Feb 2012 | 56 Comments
This is perhaps what the expression 'setting the cat among the pigeons' means. Just when Israel was putting up that little show, going around the world crying about the way Iran was ta...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 14, Feb 2012 | 4 Comments
When the history of these interesting times is written, the people of Syria will perhaps take their place right at the top. Of course, the courage and leadership demonstrated by the...
Marjan Akhtar on 12, Feb 2012 | 6 Comments
The region of South Asia comprising of two nuclear states India and Pakistan, which also happen to be long time rivals are flashpoints of future conflicts. The conflicts arise from the on and off imba...
Muzammil on 6, Feb 2012 | 4 Comments
Only two hundred and fifty paved kilometers from the burgeoning Karachi located a stretch of recently unlocked land that stands high above an unending m...
Anam Gill on 1, Feb 2012 | No Comments
When planning a trip to Europe there are innumerable travel guides giving an overture to Europe’s museums, castles, nightclubs, travel with euro rail and luxurious getaways. What one hardly finds is...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 31, Jan 2012 | 3 Comments
This is springtime in the Middle East once again. And I haven’t seen such glorious, reinvigorating weather during my nearly decade of living in the region. This year appears to be really special...
Aijaz Zaka Syed on 26, Jan 2012 | 1 Comment
Bicycles, bicycles, and more bicycles. That’s the first thing you notice after landing in Copenhagen. Driving from the airport into the city, one is amazed at the sheer number of bicycles ...
Aneka Chohan on 16, Jan 2012 | 4 Comments
Late March 2003, when the invasion of Iraq had begun, I remember I was fourteen, solemnly chewing my breakfast cereal as I watched American and British forces stomping across the Iraqi lands. Almost n...