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Pervez Musharraf Declares Emergency in Pakistan

Chowk    Nov 3, 2007   interacts: 190

As of 6PM on Saturday President General Musharraf has suspended the constitution and declared State of Emergency in Pakistan.

Whither Enlightened Moderation

saeed qureshi   May 18, 2008   interacts: 13

The latest patch up between the NWFP provincial government and Taliban of Swat and South Waziristan buries the much touted President Musharraf’s theme of enlightened

Eqbal Ahmad: Post - Pokhran Days

Pervez Hoodbhoy   May 12, 2000   interacts: 81

The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by nature ...

General Musharraf – Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Shahid Mahmood   Oct 2, 2003   interacts: 51

Musharraf falls and a General with fundamentalist leanings pushes ‘the’ button. India reacts. Karachi, Lahore, Delhi, and Bombay have a combined population of one million

Art Festival to Explore Web Communities

Chowk Staff   Apr 5, 1998   interacts: 1

This year’s Art/Culture Festival in Toronto, Canada holds special appeal for South Asian Web Citizens.

Benazir Bhutto: Death of Hope and Dilemma

Tahir Qazi   Dec 28, 2007   interacts: 1

She is an even more significant loss for the West that myopically supports personalities rather than masses and institutions in the countries of interest.

Can the Judiciary Save the Coalition?

Zafar Mohiuddin   May 6, 2008   interacts: 103

Handing the Supreme Court back to a judge and his team that stood up to the COAS and the President amounts to adding a new

Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?

Moeed Pirzada   Jun 27, 2008   interacts: 175

A new kind of voting belt is being created where people are more aware of the larger issues, of national causes and increasingly form opinions

Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?

Farzana Versey   May 29, 2006   interacts: 58

V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He

Musharraf and Alternative

Khalid Bhatti   Nov 8, 2007   interacts: 21

General Musharraf, return the power to people, restore the judiciary and reinstate the constitution of Pakistan. We have had enough of you and its not

India Pakistan Talks

Aparna Pande   May 20, 2008   interacts: 13

India and Pakistan are to have Foreign Minister and Foreign Secretary level talks starting May 20 in Islamabad. It is time to once again look

Here Are the Muslim Feminist Voices, Mr. Rushdie!

Fawzia Afzal Khan   Nov 23, 2001   interacts: 496

Muslim women HAVE been speaking out against the obscurantist Islam he decries

On Zillae Huma Usman

ZJ    Mar 14, 2007   interacts: 172

What good is the facade of encouraging educated women to be at the forefront at the expense of their life?

Ejecting Parasitic Armies – Sea Cucumber’s Lesson

Q Isa Daudpota   Dec 30, 2006   interacts: 5

The animal kingdom teaches some ingenious tricks on how to get rid of parasitic armies.

Where Billions Vanish

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Apr 21, 2008   interacts: 145

The Musharraf years are over. It is now time for parliament to carry out a public inquiry into the irresponsible and crazy policies that have

Musharraf Will Die

Shahid Mahmood   Mar 19, 2004   interacts: 144

The pot is bubbling and the stew simmering, and the script now calls for a death. There have been countless, innocent civilian deaths. The latest

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