http://www.chowk.com Ideas & Identities of South Asia http://www.chowk.com/articles/16603 In the beginning of our marriage I considered it a routine question of a typical wife and did not give it much importance. But gradually that question became my emotional problem. http://www.chowk.com/articles/16602 Poem on Rawalpindi bomb blast http://www.chowk.com/articles/16601 Amid all this mayhem and unstoppable tragic loss of valuable lives, have we for a moment stopped and asked ourselves: “can we fight ideas with guns only?” http://www.chowk.com/articles/16595 Unless six key challenges of implementing aid in FATA are tackled, we’re wasting our tax dollars. And if we lose FATA, we lose this war. http://www.chowk.com/articles/16593 The campaign against the iconic Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain, perhaps the most prominent living symbol of art under attack, is part of the political fight ... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16586 The operation in Waziristan is a very temporary solution, and its only aim should be to halt immediate attacks, but ultimately the peace has to be negotiated, w... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16581 I don’t always agree with Imran Khan on politics but I have no doubt that his stances and his point of view are sincere and not colored with self-interest. http://www.chowk.com/articles/16561 A piece from Tripoli, where there are tombs of soldiers from the subcontinent. Just as every country has a “Tomb of the Unknown Soldier” every country shoul... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16570 How can we get a society of adults to be accountable for the treatment of its youngest citizens? http://www.chowk.com/articles/16577 Pakistan and Waziristan were not always like this. How we have come to this pass is crucial to analyse, but even more urgent is to assess that are we prepared e... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16574 Some might argue that Pakistan became militarily and strategically more powerful by the policies of that government, but states can become outwardly very strong... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16569 The day begin with the graphics of Peshawar Bombing and Madam Hilary Clinton making a news conference with our foreign minister whose son, works as an intern f... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16568 Reima Ismic was a slim, dark-haired woman in her forties, with thin wrists and bony hands, she always wore a light colored scarf around her head, she was a Bosn... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16564 Right now as the army is waging a war in Waziristan, instead of univocal and unconditional support, it is being criticized for being hard on so called “good” Taliban. http://www.chowk.com/articles/16563 The enforcement of self rule regulations in Northern Areas and other current Pakistani measures are a visible sign that Kashmir and Kashmiri people are no more ... http://www.chowk.com/articles/16463 Can you hear the crackling of his bones?<br /> Can you hear the sound of his bleak skull?<br /> Can you hear the shriek of his departed soul?<br /> Oh, no! How could you! You are a living one