Warday

A continuation of the Graphic novel WARDAY, but from the perspective of ex-patriot Pakistani population stranded after a 36 hour nuclear holocaust.

Blinkered Vision: Unravelling the Nuclear Debate

Why is the \'US India Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement\' called 123? The answer lies in the US Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Article 123 of the act governs US \'Cooperation with other countries\'.

Whither Pakistan? The Presidential 'Election' and Beyond

It is my view that in the not too distant future Pakistan too will go through its own version of an Islamic revolution.

Truth Behind US-India Nuclear Deal

US-India deal has all the signs of great treaty. However it also contains some ominas signs of India getting trapped in a CIA net.

Stagnating Pakistan-Iran Relations

When it comes to Pakistan-Iran relations there is much more than what actually is being said by the establishment or its proxies.

A Stretch of Analogy: National Deterrence to Individual Deterrence

The government has already accepted its inability in protecting the citizenry by giving licenses to open ‘security agencies.’ But this is also a safeguard specifically aimed at the elite

The Trial of a Nation

In their opinion, Dr. Khan couldn’t possibly, understand the technology during the sixteen days he spent at Almelo and even then he could only go in or out of the factory at prescribed hours.

Pakistan’s Choice

In light of rising Indian power blessed by the West, what policy options does Pakistan have?

Doomed If They Do, Doomed If They Dont

Since the issue at hand is so complicated and steeped in strategic considerations and nucular, sorry, nuclear jargons, let us try to understand the situation with the help of an allegory, “The Largest Singh Meets the Longest Sam, A True Sad Story.&#

Iran’s Nuclear Triangle

Encircling Iran by maintaining its military presence in five of the seven countries sharing borders with Iran, the US seems to be working overtime to neutralize Iran’s ‘nuclear triangle’

Engaging India

If Nawaz Sharif is portrayed as...a mugger “who was holding a pistol to his head and threatening to blow his brains out if you didn’t hand over your wallet”, LK Advani is an ominous figure dwelling fondly on a South Asia under Indian heg

Pakistan: Inside The Nuclear Closet

Many in the Pakistani press had warned that any attempt to punish Qadeer, advertised for near two decades as the architect of Pakistan’s and the Islamic world’s nuclear bomb, would provoke rampaging mobs to demand an end to Musharraf’s p

The Nuclear Noose Around Pakistan’s Neck

Thirty years ago, fearful of India’s newly acquired nuclear weapons, Pakistan set out on its own quest to become a nuclear weapons state...Few could have imagined then that the move from buyer to seller of the world’s deadliest technology w

We Cut When Asked -- PTCL’s New Censoring Role

Our telephone company, the monopoly holder for conveying Internet traffic, has lately been working overtime as the morality policeman.

History Rehearsing: Dark Ages of Islam

poor masses hopelessly in search of a savior

Pakistan and India - Lets Compromise

The program began by applauding Indian PM Vajpayee’s concession to meet Jamali, his Pakistani counter-part

An Answer to the Pro War Surrealists

If you feel that your way of life is better than us, than live it, but stop trying to impose it upon us.

Rightsizing of the Armed Forces

the huge Pak Army fulfils few strategic functions

Khaki wisdom -- One-way ticket to Hell

the world came closer to a nuclear exchange during the recent standoff between India and Pakistan than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis

Creation of Hindu ’madrasas’

Is this the sort of education we Indians want in our school system?

An All-Inclusive Rejoinder to All the Chronic Complainers

there are few nations on the face of earth blessed with such an omnipotent uniformed force

Piece of What?

I left home for a gathering of peaceniks and ended up at the social event of the year. The card in my hand said ‘Arundhati Roy: keynote speaker: seminar on peace and freedom in south Asia’

Peace in South Asia

Arundhati Roy gave the Pakistanis a glimpse of what free-thinking is

An Insight Into the Way Shiv Sena Functions

This political sex appeal of Thackerey is the reason that Shiv Sena shakhaas have sprung up in Haryana and Punjab

The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond

Osama bin Laden has his own vision of a perfect world and millions will die

Enough is Enough

Some of us, like Noah’s family, will be saved

Running Naked

Looking at the current India, Pakistan conflict as Manto would have

The Indo-Pak Summit, Kashmir and the Taj Mahal

One cannot expect a solution from just one summit on the complex Kashmir problem ...

The Chicken Hawks Of Pakistan

The military should accept the fact that it is a dictatorship

Our Blind Nuclear Prophets

why did Indian and Pakistani defence budgets go up, rather than down, after the May 1998 tests?

Hands Across The Border

we all must plant our saplings of peace today

The Soft Option

How can we say that Pakistan is misrepresenting the term ’jehad’ with regard to Kashmir when we Indians are doing the same?

The Imperatives of Power

A physically injured leader has won hands down against the leader of a psychologically injured nation in the world of diplomacy

No More Hiroshimas Anywhere, Ever

Fat Boy and Thin Man, created atomic hell on August 6 and August 9, 1945

Where Mountains Move

The Story of Chagai

Negotiating Peace in Kashmir

President Clinton should also exhort the Indian leaders

What’s the future of India and Pakistan?

there are only two solutions to this problem[Kashmir]. A Change of attitude or war

TIEcon 2000 Generates Hope

Entrepreneurship in the 21st. Century

Us and Them - A Pakistani professor counters Urdu newspapers

A student stood up and berated me for negating the Ideology of Pakistan

Eqbal Ahmad: Post - Pokhran Days

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

Can Clinton Stand in Front of the Taj?

Vices or not, Clinton certainly got to go as far as India

Pssst...This is Rest of South Asia speaking

for every Indian dollar-billionaire, there are at least a hundred million paupers

Why Clinton should visit Pakistan

The Americans simply cannot sideline Pakistan...

Talibanization or the Turkish Model?

My son is a U.S Citizen, and he is going to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.

Let us Not be Foolish

Mistakes, misunderstandings and downright hate have led us too long in India-Pakistan relations...

In the Supreme National Interest

the days of loot and plunder are over

Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats?

A scathing look at journalism in Pakistan

Resolving the Hijack Crisis

The timing of the IC-814 hijack crisis portends several things

Chashma - Almost too Late

Better money lost than people’s lives

Pakistan: Rapprochement with India ‘unstoppable’

One thing is clear: people want peace with India

Text of Speech by Gen. Pervez Musharraf

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

A Recipe For Unbridled Pak-India Competition

Independent thinking on foreign and defence policies has virtually ceased to exist

Connected to: Harsh Kapoor

SPIDER talks to Cyber Warrior Harsh Kapoor about his stance on the recent blocking of the Dawn Internet Edition in India

Kargil: A view from Pakistan

What gives in the mountains?

Kargil Issue

I begin the issue right from 1947 when India and Pakistan were planned to be two separate countries

Why Not This One?

Of Sharifs, Bhuttos, missiles and carrots.

Pokhran-Chaghi audit: Winners and losers

India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests one year ago.

Nuclear powers can count too!

Can we implement a new census at the dawn of the new millenium?

The Man who would be King

A look inside the mind of Nawaz Sharif.

Vajpayee Toppled

Next: Sonia Gandhi?

Why Vajpayee’s Trip to Lahore Was a Failure

Vajpayee’s bus trip can be described in one word: nothing

Getting Ready for ‘Bus Diplomacy’

Vajpayee and Sharif get creative. First bombs then bus rides.

A Forgotten Incident

India and Pakistan go to war!

A Line Runs Through It

Siachen-Kargil: India, Pakistan, Kashmir and forgotton lessons of history

India is South Asia’s Natural Hegemon

Pakistan is more an army with a state than a state with an army.

Is Impeachment Realistic

Scandal and sex are easier to start than explain. Just ask the President.

Talking of Talks

...the Prime Ministers have had a telephone talk

Shadows of Hiroshima

An airplane as pretty as a silver treasure slowly flying from east to west in the cloudless, pure blue sky ...

India

India I still haven’t told you what you did to Manto when he did not
leave for Pakistan in ’47.

From Zharkent to Laguna Pueblo

We are still suffering from the radiation effects of tests done by China and Russia

Repercussions of Nuclearization

The question of women and public space in the nuclear debate hardly exists in the popular imagination

Reconfiguration of the South Asian Polities

Mr. Sharif wants to transform himself into Amir-ul-Momineen....a title used by the Taliban chief.

Humpty-Dumpty rescrambled

What would two eggs (for Pete’s sake) be doing on a wall?

Sanctions - the carrot follows the stick.

A crack in the door - sanctions may be lifted soon.

Nuclear Bomb for Sale

the demand for nuclear bombs outstripped that of mangoes, movies, health services, designer labels, paan, clean water,

Nuclear Strike Warning or Green Card Application?

A Pakistani Nuclear Scientist defects to the US with dire warnings

Nuclear South Asia: An Explanation to America

The US and the rest of the world needs to help in the resolution of this issue because if we don’t address it now we will all hear about it later.

Damming Kalabagh

Is the state acting wisely in its insistence upon building Kalabagh Dam?

Letter from Nagasaki

I am the grand daughter of a survivor of Nagasaki, and I bear the scars of that living hell

Nuclear Viagra and Nationalist Virility

What does it matter...in the long run we are dead anyway.

Living with the Bomb

A 2-5 minute flight time, almost zero chances of interception, and the impossibility of recall

Getting to Yes

Not to test was to permanently accept Indian domination.

The Hard Choice

A Pakistani physicist’s view on the eve of the Pakistani N-tests

Pakistan in State of Emergency

President Tarar promulgates state of emergency in the country

So, We Are Nuclear Too!!

Scenes from a nuclear world

Nuclear Tests in Pakistan

We have settled the score, Nawaz Sharif.

Compilation of Articles and Opinions on India’s Nuclear Test

The events surrounding the nuclear tests conducted by India have resulted in a number of articles and opinions. This is a compilation of those articles.

Crying Buddha

Three tears fell to wet the Indian desert on
This grim and horrifying day in May as ...

Statesmanship Needed

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

Say No to Indian and Pakistani Bombs

...against the ideologies of hate created and promoted by our governments

Patriot Games

Pass out the barfis. It could be a hockey match. A Tendulkar century. A riot or a nuclear blast.

Petition against the Nuclearization of South Asia

Petition circulated at a seminar at MIT on the nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan.

A Letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan

A letter urging restraint on part of Pakistan in response to the recent rash behavior of the Government of India.

India tests three nuclear devices

Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced that India had conducted three underground nuclear tests on Monday.

Pre-Eid Fireworks in Pakistan

On Monday April 06, Pakistan successfully tested a surface-to-surface missile capable of carrying nuclear payload over a range of 1100 km.

Madeleine’s ’Deadly Delusions’

Well over 6 million Indian and Pakistani citizens live in the Middle East and Washington’s apparent indifference towards their safety has roundly ticked off nations who generally need little reason to feel offended.

Entrepreneurship Under the Microscope: The MIT Stanford Venture Lab

Learn of a place where VCs, start-up gurus, and hot-shot technocrats set young CEOs on the couch and analyze their entrepreneurial dreams for them....for free.

Islamic Economic Model: La Riba (Interest-free) Banking

No wonder, the Islamic system is gaining popularity. In Pakistan, mutual funds and industrial joint ventures on Mudaraba basis have been established...

• All
• US Elections 2008 Primaries
• Pakistan General Election 2007-2008
• Benazir Bhutto Assassination
• Pakistan State of Emergency
• Bomb Blasts on Benazir Bhutto's Return
• Judicial Crisis in Pakistan
• Lal Masjid Seige
• May 12 2007 Karachi Riots
• Virginia Tech Shooting
• Cricket World Cup 2007
• July 2006 Lebanon War
• July 11 Bombay Train Blasts
• July 7 London Bombing
• Kashmir Earthquake
• Indian General Elections 2004
• Tsunami
• Vote of Confidence
• India Pakistan Peace Process
• US-Iraq War
• Kalabagh Dam Controversy
• Higher Education Commission Criticism
• Karachi Oil Spill
• Mukhtaran Mai Rape
• Gujarat Riots
• Indian Parliament Attack
• War in Afghanistan
• September 11 Attacks
• Dot com
• Pakistan Coup of 1999
• 1999 Kargil Conflict
• 1998 Nuclear Weapons Testing
• Remembering Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Honouring Abdus Salam