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A Letter To The Youth of Pakistan

Usama Khilji

These times are testing of your patriotism, but let me tell you how these times are actually a golden opportunity for you to prove your worth, your love for the country, and desire for a better future.

Sep 3, 2010   Views 4899   Interacts 234

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Chanson D'Amour

Maryam Piracha

Why come back into my life? Looking out at me across the mirror, making love to me through bedsheets, standing by my side with every gust of breezy, beachy air? Why torture me needlessly, if only to desert me?

Sep 3, 2010   Views 567   Interacts 4

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The Mad Poet of Porapara: 1950, 2000

Shakuntala Rao

When I had first read my grandfather's diary, written in a mix of Bengali and English, Moinuddin, the baul, had stood apart and so I embarked on a journey to find him.

Sep 1, 2010   Views 1327   Interacts 12

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Institutional Radicalisation of Public Schools

Ali Chishti

Schools like those run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (a new name for LeT), which received Punjab government’s funding of Rs 30 million, systematically replaced the mainstream curriculum.

Sep 1, 2010   Views 5574   Interacts 175

The Indian Story

Walev Yeav Wapas

Gowhar Geelani

There is no communal disharmony in Kashmir. Only circumstances have been challenging and the going has been hard and tough. Today, I once again extend an invitation to all of them. Please come back. 'Walev Yeav Wapas'!

Aug 29, 2010   Views 6564   Interacts 189

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Requiem for Pakistan Cricket

Ayesha Umar

Irrespective of the result of ongoing Test match (which might be abandoned) the match fixing allegation is a huge stigma on the face of Pakistan cricket.

Aug 29, 2010   Views 3408   Interacts 64

Current Affairs

Pakistan’s Human Cockroaches

Fasi Zaka

We blame our ill-educated brethren for the barbarity we witness, but that’s a self-serving lie. If you believe Jews are the scum of earth, Ahmadis deserve to die or that Hindus are inferior, well then why not two teenage boys?

Aug 27, 2010   Views 8381   Interacts 206

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Hell, Thy Name is Pakistan!

Mutaal Mooquin

The spreading culture of killings, corruption and ignorance make people think that it’s OK to kill people of different faith, ideas and behaviour; it is also OK if people take things in their own hands.

Aug 27, 2010   Views 2656   Interacts 33

Politics

Phoenix Rising for Musharraf?

Irshad Salim

Restive but now flood-ravaged Balochistan is on payyah jam. Fire, bullets and now water engulf the Baloch - reminiscent of the cyclone Bhola in 1970 that devastated Bangladesh and pushed the angry Eastern half of Pakistan over the edge - a year later to

Aug 27, 2010   Views 2365   Interacts 67

Current Affairs

Raped Maoist Quits Revolution

M Singh

She joined the Maoists at age of seventeen; will surrender on August 26th and let the world know how the women comrades have been treated in the vast jungles under brutal control of the ultras.

Aug 26, 2010   Views 2589   Interacts 59

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