Messages of Hate, and Sometimes Violence Too
Maliha Aqueel Aug 5, 2009 interacts: 8
SMS has given the youth a new kind of power to get organised fast, and cheap. So, protests are now organised with mass messaging
Karachi: Transport Mafia vs Green Bus Project
Ali Chishti Aug 5, 2009 interacts: 5Recently the beloved son of Karachi and Pakistan, Mustafa Kamal introduced the environmental friendly GREEN BUSES Project which is an another gift of Haq Parast
Culture and Development: The Missing Policy Link
Nadeem Tarar Aug 5, 2009 interacts: 5While culture is regarded as the means and instrument of development, the notion of development, following Amartya Sen, is based on substantive expansion of freedom.
Bombay Lefties
Prashant Bhatt Jul 29, 2009 interacts: 187You can still find some of the old vanguard sitting in the garden at Horniman circle in the Fort area of Bombay, discussing the murder
Recalibrating The Moral Compass
Irfan Waheed Jul 29, 2009 interacts: 199As extremism has spread its tentacles across Pakistan, it has manifested itself in a familiar pattern. Barber shops are warned, and then blown up. Businesses
Alyjah's Tree
Sanaullah Khan Jul 29, 2009 interacts: 2Our story begins when Alyjah first had that weird dream. In the beginning it was just a voice, a sweet whisper indeed. It called him.
Red Carpet
Fatima Mirza Jul 29, 2009 interacts: 5
The scatterer of wounds and fears
speaks in hesitant obscurities
of woe-begone frail days
where nothing in the tornado sleeps
accept a pin, that marks
The New Face of the Pakistani Discourse on Balochistan
Alia Amirali Jul 29, 2009 interacts: 49The Baloch and the Pakistani state are at loggerheads more than ever before. Has the state finally decided to negotiate?
Sonia Sotomayor: Justice at Last?
Beej K Singh Jul 28, 2009 interacts: 5Sonia Sotomayor has waited a long time for her current nomination – and the country has waited much longer to see a Hispanic Judge in
Maoist Insurgency Rocks India
Nauman Asghar Jul 27, 2009 interacts: 39Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described the Maoist uprising as ‘the biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country’
Let’s Be Serious
Feroz Qutabshahi Jul 27, 2009 interacts: 33“Pakistan president Asif Zardari bans jokes ridiculing him” – Daily Telegraph, London, 21 July 2009
Bullet
mohammad gill Jul 22, 2009 interacts: 9When Shafqat returned from office he found there were guests in the house. They were women who were sitting in the big room. Shafqat’s wife,
The State And Its' Wars
Feroz R Khan Jul 22, 2009 interacts: 54Pakistan is engaged in a series of debates arguing the role of constitutionalism; of independent judiciary; of free media and civil society’s responsibility, but not
Can Status-quo Save Pakistan?
Rashid Malik Jul 22, 2009 interacts: 100Shortage of electric supply has drawn protests in Lahore and Karachi. Protesters burnt down a train in Punjab. Some parts of the Karachi are without
Indo-Pak Talks: Comedy and Controversy
Ibrahim Malick Jul 22, 2009 interacts: 26Both sides used their media as negotiating tools. A Pakistani journalist was fed a story of ‘deadlock’ to adjust Indian diplomatic temperature. It worked… Indians
Teaching for India
Rakesh Mani Jul 20, 2009 interacts: 50It is an unfortunate fact that despite India’s rapid economic ascent and her emergence on the global stage, millions of Indian citizens are still left
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