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Movie Review: The Kite Runner

Ras Siddiqui   Jan 8, 2008   interacts: 28

Khalid Hosseini, like many Afghan’s is a poet at heart. Here with the assistance of screenwriter David Benioff, the essence

Kibera Inside and Outside

kashkin dabruski   Jan 8, 2008   interacts: 0

Bullets inside my head
And hunger outside me
I am a little child
My mother gone

Pakistan's Moment of Democracy?

Zeynab Ali   Jan 7, 2008   interacts: 10

Even as many conceded that ‘Musharraf is not going anywhere’, a response of Pakistanis around the world who seemed beset

Interviewing Ayman

Faisal Kapadia   Jan 7, 2008   interacts: 13

I came across the “hilarious news” that Al Qaeda would be now conducting an open interview. Yes my friends.. good

1857-What Really Happened-A Reconstruction

Agha Amin   Jan 7, 2008   interacts: 68

A brief analysis of the claims about 1857 as one hears them in today’s Pakistan.

I thirst

Sahir Shah   Jan 7, 2008   interacts: 7

I will shed this wretched skin
shred it, peel it, skin myself

Pakistan After The Assassination: Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy

Chowk    Jan 6, 2008   interacts: 145

Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy by Stefania Maurizi of Venerdi of La Repubblica

Mass Difference: The Bhuttos and Civil Society

Nadeem F Paracha   Jan 6, 2008   interacts: 22

Populist, mass-oriented politics can effectively cancel out the two most prominent anti-populist strains in Pakistan i.e. the politico-religious and the elite-bourgeois.

Islam as a political weapon in Pakistan

Mubarka Ahmad   Jan 3, 2008   interacts: 473

Manipulative Politics through the Bhutto and Zia Regimes

A Cursed Nation

Imad Zafar   Jan 3, 2008   interacts: 44

What a sorrow, we dream of an ideal society a prosperous country but we want someone else to fight for this cause.

Crisis: Danger or Opportunity

Yasir Abbasi   Jan 3, 2008   interacts: 4

"credo quia absurdum"..... I believe because it is absurd!!!

The Landlady

Tahera Sajid   Jan 3, 2008   interacts: 12

Why do we exercise our right to hate so much more often than the right to love, anyway?

The Sufi Tarot Card Reader

Rakshanda Khan   Jan 2, 2008   interacts: 12

‘Hello! Would you like a reading?’ he asked, shuffling the cards with a flourish, his round, bald head settling into his broad shoulders with a

Al-Andalusia … Decline of a Plural Culture

mahmood Mahmood   Jan 1, 2008   interacts: 173

1st January 2008 is the 516th Anniversary of fall of Al-Andalusia’s last plural place Granada. A sociological analysis of this decline and its implication for

This Pyre Will Burn…!

H P   Dec 31, 2007   interacts: 404

Larkana and the entire interior of Sindh and Sindhi/Baloch dominated areas in Karachi resonated with the slogans of Jiya Sindh and Punjabi na Khapan and

Making a Mockery of Democracy

Mohammad Gill   Dec 30, 2007   interacts: 117

Waging democracy in the spirit of revenge is the worst form of democracy. This shows the type of democracy which Benazir Bhutto’s (BB) Peoples Party

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