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To Quota or Not to Quota

Mian A Waheed and Naseem Majeed    May 15, 1998   interacts: 2

A look at the divisive quota issue.

Water of Life

Veeresh Malik   Jun 12, 1999   interacts: 6

What has happened to all the drinking water in India?

Many Questions, No Answers

Shahid Mahmood   Jun 25, 2003   interacts: 37

Solutions do not rest in either Democracy or in the Shariah. The answers are in Education and Social Equality. Only this will invalidate the Bush

The Urdu Press in New York

Rehan Ansari   Jan 31, 2003   interacts: 30

We never thought we would flee America

Statesmanship Needed

Dilawar Syed   May 21, 1998   interacts: 6

Mr. Bhutto’’s decision to go nuclear would prove pivotal quarter of a century later

The Razor’s Edge

Feroz R Khan   Jul 7, 2003   interacts: 111

The United States seems to be losing the proverbial battle for the “hearts and minds” of the Afghans. The biggest problem was that the United

Jirga injustice

Beena Sarwar   Nov 15, 2004   interacts: 17

From an informal body meant to settle small claims, the ‘jirga’ in Pakistan has been allowed to emerge as a powerful extra-judicial force protecting the

Talking to Jamil Dehlavi about Infinite Justice and More

Ras Siddiqui   Feb 10, 2008   interacts: 103

Jamil Dehlavi's film “Infinite Justice” recently opened in Britain. The Indo-Pakistani-French film maker was born in Calcutta to an Indian

One Day in The Life of a (legal) Alien

Zia Ahmed   Feb 21, 2003   interacts: 60

They’ll soon start doing this for everybody, you know

Lessons from Constitutional History

Jawaid Siddiqi   Oct 30, 2002   interacts: 54

But we never seem to learn from history

A New Constitution for Pakistan

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Aug 16, 2003   interacts: 252

Pakistan needs a workable and flexible document which is practical and can be sustained over a longer period of time.

The Diary of a Pretty Young Thing

Bina Shah   Dec 2, 2002   interacts: 34

I smiled charmingly at the visa officer

A Nation Reborn

Shaheryar Akbar   Mar 20, 2007   interacts: 71

Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians

Pakistan in the Year 3000

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Jan 12, 2000   interacts: 310

Apes and Dumbos dont have much of a future on planet Earth

A Day with an Orthodox Rabbi

Hisham Zoubeir   May 27, 1998   interacts: 2

Hebrew for God willing also sounds like insha’allah.

Text of Speech by Gen. Pervez Musharraf

Press Room   Oct 17, 1999   interacts: 129

The choice before us on Oct 12th was between saving the body - that is the nation, at the cost of a limb - which

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