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Greatest Challenge Before Obama

Ikramul Haq

4 July, 2009 is a special day for the people of United States of America. The dream that Martin Luther King visualized has attained reality.

Jul 2, 2009   Views 131   Interacts 2

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Peace for People and People of Peace

Saeed Shiekh

This is all I ask after paying my taxes. A safe haven for my home. Smiles on my children faces. Halal, hard earned food, and electricity.

Jul 2, 2009   Views 184   Interacts 6

People

Himanshu Rai: The Light of India

Rajesh Shankaran

Before Danny Boyle, before Shyam Benegal, even before Merchant-Ivory and Bimal Roy, there was one Indian who was peddling Indian fare to the cinema audiences of Europe.

Jul 2, 2009   Views 160   Interacts 1

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The Kaleidoscope Of My Dreams

Hina SajidKhan

My present is what I have.
My thoughts are here to stay.
The rapture will come again.
You can’t take that away.
My kaleidoscope of dreams,
Will be born again.

Jul 2, 2009   Views 78   Interacts 0

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Movie Review: New York

sufia ajaz

A thoughtful comment on terrorism that took place in America on 9/11 and its aftermath.

Jun 30, 2009   Views 1065   Interacts 18

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Local Government System – Incompetence vs Competence

Ali Chishti

I fail to understand why people blame the system for their incompetence? MQM has proved that with any system they could work and contribute because of their commitment, competence and honesty.

Jun 29, 2009   Views 1518   Interacts 16

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Environment, Kyoto Protocol and the Carbon Market

Zafir Zia

Pakistan today considered to be among the top 20 countries in the world that are gravely endangered to the adverse affects of climate change.

Jun 29, 2009   Views 416   Interacts 7

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Loser

mohsin ahmed

I dream of those bizarre sketches,
on my unworthy soul,
hands proceed towards me snatching,

Jun 29, 2009   Views 341   Interacts 4

Personal Narratives

Streets of Bahadurgunj

saif ahmad

62, Basu Road, Bahadurgunj, was the address of the ancestral house where I was born. Joint families, uncles, cousins living on different floors. The House was known as "Plot", elders forgot to name the house and everyone would call it

Jun 28, 2009   Views 772   Interacts 8

People

King of Pop Silenced at 50

Anum Ali


As the music fraternity gathers round to grieve their beloved King of Pop it is true when their words echo: “There cannot be another Michael Jackson.”

Jun 28, 2009   Views 1482   Interacts 46

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