Debate Desk
Hasnain Iqbal on 15, May 2012 | 29 Comments
He utters the same clichés, spouts the same idiom, his intensity and passion are no different while he holds out the same platter of promises. It is all so déjà vu. Yet he stands out in this sea of...
Afifa Faisal on 12, May 2012 | 5 Comments
Skin whitening advertising associates light skin with idealized beauty that all women can attain, irrespective of nationality, race, or class. While the ubiquitous appeal of such advertising is cultur...
Riffat Rashid on 10, May 2012 | 3 Comments
Let’s throw a bucket of tomatoes and rotten eggs at the media. Everyone’s doing it. Even though, I feel like joining on the bandwagon, I don’t think it’s really clever. Let me tell you why:
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Farheen Rizvi on 8, May 2012 | 8 Comments
The current episode of Shazad Roy’s “Wasu aur main” made me think that where things went wrong in Pakistan and how Balochistan has been deprived of the basic needs ever since independence. His i...
Ahsan Nisar on 3, May 2012 | 17 Comments
Disclaimer: What you are going to read in the next five minutes is not a work of fiction inspired by Dan Brown, although the title of the article suggests otherwise. In this article, I have tried to p...
Engr. Nasir Jamal on 30, Apr 2012 | 2 Comments
Undoubtedly, Pakistan’s politics is more like a live-version of the Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ in both the literal and figurative aspect of the word. Here also, some people think that they have mo...
Mansoor Ali Khan on 26, Apr 2012 | 6 Comments
Minus the excitement quotient, the breaking that blazed the screens that the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been convicted and charged for the contempt of court, was but painful. In about an ...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 23, Apr 2012 | 16 Comments
“Write the name of the prophet who came after the Prophet Essa (Jesus)?”
Two of the four options: Hazrat Abrahim; Hazrat Mohammad.
I’ve jumped the gun again. Let me...
Madeeha Ishtiaque on 20, Apr 2012 | 105 Comments
Ever came across debates on why or why not to wear jeans, socks or may be shoes? The question might appear to hit the highest point of hilarity, but seriously, the discussion ad nauseam on ‘To wear ...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 18, Apr 2012 | 7 Comments
At around 1 am on Sunday morning, about ‘400-500’ (media reports), around 150 (Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar), heavily armed men stormed into a heavy guarded Bannu jail and freed 3...
Mansoor Ali Khan on 16, Apr 2012 | 8 Comments
"Important, I can provide you information about latest attack on Brewery Road, Quetta but I demand full secrecy." This is the message I received on my cell phone today when I reached office. I called ...
Mansoor Ali Khan on 13, Apr 2012 | 6 Comments
Being a newscaster, one has to read all sorts of news every day. From bomb blasts to Sports victories and losses, from celebrity gossips to political scandals we read every thing. Some times people s...
Asif Iqbal on 9, Apr 2012 | 29 Comments
Based near the Siachen Glacier, a Pakistan army base camp located at Gayari sector met misfortune when a deathly avalanche struck the camp and buried over 100 soldiers. The Pakistan army has started a...
Muhammad Talha on 5, Apr 2012 | 5 Comments
The political temperature in the country seems to have fallen down a bit. The everyday squabbles and irksome statements have halted for the nonce. May be the President’s assertion about the next g...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 5, Apr 2012 | 16 Comments
My God Pakistanis must have done something right to be bestowed by intellectuals and thinkers like dear Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The gentleman always manages to clear up the ambiguities tha...
Lubna Jerar Naqvi on 2, Apr 2012 | 2 Comments
Yesterday we bought new bicycles for the kids as I think no childhood is complete without a bicycle. Who can forget the scary moments when one learns to ride a two wheeler sans the training wheels...