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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 2314  Interacts 49

Politics

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 912   Interacts 33

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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 3602   Interacts 138

Media

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 1294   Interacts 33

Books Arts & Culture

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 912   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 1464   Interacts 16

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The Muslim Protagonist and the Past Three Years

Vaibhav Jain

What better a movie to begin with than Rang De Basanti? RDB will stand out for long as ‘The Generation X Movie’ in the annals of Bollywood.

Nov 14, 2008   Views 3436   Interacts 110

Sports

Phoenix In Green

Faisal Kapadia

Just as I had swept ODI cricket, specially Pakistan cricket under the rug of ancient "feel good" memories, the Pakistan and West Indies match turns out to be a smasher

Nov 14, 2008   Views 581   Interacts 2

Current Affairs

Hail Obama

Saima Shah, Its a Square World

Surely you, who are a veritable crossroads yourself, black, white, Muslim, Kenyan, Indonesian, American and under 50, you can see further than others have been able to.

Nov 12, 2008   Views 8469  Interacts 296

War on Terror

Ways of the Taliban

Malik Rashid

Its tradition of gory acts of public beheading, suicide bombings and acts of terrorism is rapidly unmasking the Taliban in NWFP and swinging public opinion against them.

Nov 12, 2008   Views 2125   Interacts 21

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