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Feroz Qutabshahi

Ironically, the main organizers of Interfaith conference at UN was His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, country with the worst record in history on religious tolerance.

Nov 21, 2008   Views 507   Interacts 9

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The Indian Obama!

Joe Athialy

The question 'Can India produce an Obama' carries significance in the context of the Happydent White television commercial doing rounds on Indian channels since August or so.

Nov 21, 2008   Views 484   Interacts 8

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Cricket: Afridi is Our Future

Shiraz Mahmood

Don’t write him off as a dumb cricketer. He has a fantastic cricketing brain. As a baller and on the field. And he is seasoned. 12 years. He’s the most

Nov 21, 2008   Views 258   Interacts 2

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Thought for Food and Food for Thought

Faysal Malik

In last sixty minutes, while earth rotated around it’s axis for about 1,000 miles on the same planet 1,000 people died because of hunger.

Nov 21, 2008   Views 118   Interacts 0

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The Correct Turn

Nadeem F Paracha, Cafe Black

Like most movements of the 20th Century that adopted what is called Political Islam as its calling card, the Kashmir militancy too collapsed under its own weight.

Nov 17, 2008   Views 4943  Interacts 172

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Politics of PPP and Asif Zardari

Ali Chishti

Asif Zardari led government today is an extension of Mushraff’s government; authenticating Mushraff’s policies regarding war on terror and shifting the pendulum of power from Punjab to Sindh

Nov 17, 2008   Views 1431   Interacts 45

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G-8: RIP?

Dost Mittar

The G-8 meeting will take place in Italy next year as scheduled but all eyes will be on the April meeting of G-20

Nov 17, 2008   Views 4166   Interacts 148

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Urdu News Columnists and Anchors -- should we always believe them?

Aziz Akhmad

Personal opinions and biases are presented as news; commentators state inferences and perceptions as facts, often peddle half-baked ideas and folklore as received truths.

Nov 17, 2008   Views 1546   Interacts 33

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Revival of Dastan Goi

Tehseen Baweja

The going-away of this art was so unnoticable that the last known dastan go "Mir Baqir" is said to have died in Delhi in extreme poverty, after reverting to selling

Nov 14, 2008   Views 1009   Interacts 7

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Delhi Belly

Shoaib Daniyal

There’s something about the human brain which makes one terribly curious when one hears the words “bathroom mein jet hain”.

Nov 14, 2008   Views 1583   Interacts 16

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