Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis?

How long will it before Pakistani-Americans will let their voices be heard as a group?

A Guantanomized Age

The questions aimed at us fall into two broad categories: "Why aren't more moderate Muslims condemning terrorism?" and "What is it about Islam that produces terrorists?

Pura Vida – 2 Weeks in the Land of Ticos

Futbol (soccer) is a national passion. Every town and village is built around a futbol field. Quoting a tour guide “we Costa Ricans love futbol but we suck at it”.

Time for Musharraf to Quit

President Musharraf will go down in history as one of those third world leaders who by playing as the second fiddle to West exposed Pakistan to religious militancy.

I Fell Among (the APPNA) Doctors

Like the conductor of a choir, with one hand raised, she piped up with a full-throated ‘Paaak sar zameeen shadbaad … The children simply stared at their toes in embarrassment.

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace

The Taliban are waging an armed struggle to remake society. They will keep fighting this war even if America were to miraculously evaporate into space.

Muslims in America

I am all for Muslim identity but frankly what I don’t get is the overbearing role dogma plays in every action of the Muslim community in America.

Harold and Kumar Escape From Gitmo

This time the duo attempts to explain the difference between a Bong and a Bomb aboard an airplane to Amsterdam in a post 9/11 environment.

American Muslims and Presidential Elections 2008

Disagreeing with American foreign policies doesn't really mean that you are against 'us'. That stupid train has thankfully left the station and hopefully won’t return in Nov. 2008.

Why the American War on Terror is Failing Miserably

USA's counter terrorism effort in the Global War against Terror is frankly creating more terrorists than it is stopping.

Bobby & Jerry : Rise of a Coloured ‘son’ Retold

Bobby has proved that he is more Christian than the Christians, more conservative than the conservatives, and as or more embedded in the Bush-Cheney establishment than the others.

The Melting Pot

We weren’t surprised when we went to the reception and the guests sitting next to us asked us if the groom was Muslim or not.

Pakistani Twist to “Aliens in America” TV Series

Are the Pakistani and Muslim community here in America ready for raunchy American teenage humor?

Letter from Pakistan

My American friends, can you imagine your great country without justice for all? Can you live in country where justice is not available? Thanks to your Government who is supporting a military dictator in Pakistan, we cannot experience the same freedoms as

A pragmatic rant about Immigration in America

A pragmatic rant about Immigration in America

An American Experience

Just when I was beginning to think that perhaps I would never be able to see the country which I had read so much about in the bound volumes of Reader’s Digest my father had collected so lovingly over the years, from the old book shops of Karachi,

Kill for a Pill

And then call this patriotism like Hitler
Then call it “christianity”
And murder, “sanctioned by jesus
And god bless America”

Kibbutz Criminals

Can we ever imagine a Jewish Mob? Can we see any identity for them beyond the rabbi, the kibbutz, the Holocaust? Can we even think about a vengeful Jew? So, has the Jewish persecution machinery been working overtime?

Here Comes Bush

With the innocence of a child the interviewer opened his line of questions..

Red Sea Rising

America is still at the same place, using double standards and double edged swords to promote both Pakistan and India, the former by diplomatic patronizing and the latter with economic and military assistance. However, one key player has changed -- China

Conduits

This is the reality, for most of us who live outside our countries. We’re always looking for that door… the conduit that connects our new home to the real home we long for

Songs of Dissonance

Out of all the tragedies this earthquake has brought, the loss of an educated and inspiring Junaid Jamshed is very dehumanizing.

Notes from Latin America

A teacher of mine once said that if Intezaar Hussein were a Spaniard or an Englishman he would have been acclaimed as a phenomenon.

Lynddie’s Smile

There’s something pathological about her ability to smile.

Seemingly, God is Angry at America

In the past, people used to give human sacrifices to appease their angry gods. God of America has already taken His toll in New Orleans and other Gulf cities so, thank God, nobody probably has to offer any more sacrifices to appease His anger.

ISNA Thugs

ISNA management has been unable to relate to their American-born Muslim constituency which is the future of Islam in America.

The Case for American Muslim Identity

In some cases, having a birthday party at the local community center is seen as 'haraam' simply because the concept of birthday party at the time of Prophet was unknown

The Alternative Muslim Identity

We are not planning on going back home someday. We are home!

Dude, Where’s My Reference Point?

The edge to Harold is that he affirms to us the mainstream perception of the Asian Ivy League quota buster. It is almost as if the filmmakers are rubbing our noses in the very stereotype of the Asian takeover-a tyranny based on the work ethics America has

Letter to an American Muslim

Now you are as American as the Poles who came to work like slaves in the steel mills of Pittsburgh, the Irish who escaped persecution in their homeland to inhabit ghettoes in Boston and Philadelphia … Now it is your turn to do what it takes to arriv

History Rehearsing: Dark Ages of Islam

poor masses hopelessly in search of a savior

On the Picket Line in Islamabad

It is Islamabad’s best-known secret. The picket lines at KFC and Pizza Hut are well into their second month and there has not been a word about it in the local press

Saddam Hussein Lives!

The Future of America’s Occupation is Failure

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History

The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States

As Qurans Burn

We have warned you

Origins of the Modern World Capitalist Economy

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.

The Wages Of Death

Wars are political acts of concentrated violence and yet, there is violence in this war, but there is no rhyme to its logic.

The War and its Advocate: Michael Kelly Killed in Iraq

The War kills its own uncompromising advocate.

Three Arguments Against a War

As America prepares for war, I want to present three arguments for peace:

Eye Opening Facts: Steel Sector

Pakistan steel sector

US Attack on Iraq: Just Do It!

The US war on Iraq will end a tyrant regime, bring Iraq out of Isolation and set into motion a wave of globalization which could bring hope to hundreds of millions of people

Damn Saddam?

The last time round the Italian MP, Ilona Sthaler, had offered to sleep with him, appealing to the macho man and sadist in Saddam

Ghada Karmi: The Strength of Palestinian Narrative in the Face of Violence

She continues to hold the belief that Palestinian statehood is a goal that can be achieved with the use of all options

The Urdu Press in New York

We never thought we would flee America

The March of Folly

Can we Stop the War

Can do our bit to stop the War on Iraq?

Is It A War On Islam?

What, then, should be the strategy for all those who believe in a just world and are appalled by America's war on the weak?

Oh America!

For a society that watched the Gulf war as though it were a TV serial, why was I often told not to take pictures of people in the street?

All The Bridges Are Burning

The United States’ foreign policy has historically oscillated between recklessness of unilateralism and the cautious nature of multilateralism.

Standing Up to a Bully

America has all along, despite Iraq’s acceptance, said it is highly sceptical of Saddam Hussain’s assurances or promises

Husain Haqqani at UC Berkeley

Pakistan has to revisit its relationship with India

Hypocrisy Big

Is America an Empire? Is the Pope Catholic?

Sobho: the struggle continues

I still believe in the revolution, in a society that provides justice for all

Were We Too Hijacked by 9/11?

Al-Qaida had to be bombed, to let the Taliban be was not an option.

Organized Irrelevance

Are Muslims hopeless? With the OIC, they are...

India’s Potential Lose-Lose-Lose Scenario

India may actually be helping Pakistan in the long run, not harming it, with its current war hysteria

Of Evil Zionists and the Great Satan

The impotent fury of the Muslim world

Coney Al Jazeera

If bin Laden and the rest of the mujaheedin had NOT been funded to fight the Soviets, would the Soviet Union NOT have collapsed?

The Quarterbreds of Californet

What choice is left in the face of such enmity?

Deja Vu

General Musharraf should be open and honest

The Panel of Vendettas at UC Berkley

A true hero would make a radical notion and never back track

Empty Vessels And All That Jazz

do you think he is up to task to rid us of feudals next?

The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond

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

America’s Responsibility

America had left no doubt that America was anything but fair

Taliban : An Analysis

an ideal Islamic society.

India, Pakistan and America’s Mixed Signals

War is the last thing that we need there

Muslims and The West After 11th September

America has exacted blood revenge for the Twin Towers

Here Are the Muslim Feminist Voices, Mr. Rushdie!

Muslim women HAVE been speaking out against the obscurantist Islam he decries

A New Role

utilize this moment to educate the American public

Whither Democracy?

Musharraf appears to have killed two birds with one stone

Benazir Bhutto in Sacramento

the terrorist’s greatest fear is the spread of information, social equality and democracy

A Letter Home

An American teacher’s perspective

A Decision to Regret

the Afghans have always resisted a government imposed from abroad

Violent Changes

I will let life go on

Explaining it to an American Friend

godspeed and prudence in this time of grieving

America

. Look at how those ungrateful bastards paid us for our kindness?

Black Tuesday: The View From Islamabad

CNN and the US media have so far made little attempt to understand this affliction

Implications for India

India needs to show maturity

Caught In Between

Pakistan is on the defensive almost constantly

Random Thoughts From a Far Away Land

On the Eve of Pakistan’s Independence day ... these thoughts occupy a migrants mind

Open Letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee

I do not wish to neutralize the horror I feel at the destruction of Buddhist monuments with the thought that my national leaders did the same thing a decade ago

Eathquake Hits India And Pakistan

At least 15,000 people are feared dead

A World Upside Down

can the United States honestly determine the reasons behind the tragedies in Washington

Bigotry, Racism and American Media

all of us have vividly seen that Israeli security forces consistently breached all international human rights standards

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

Al-Quds Divided: The Politics of Hatred

The Arab-Israeli conflict is multi-dimensional

Pssst...This is Rest of South Asia speaking

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

Let us Not be Foolish

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

Pakistan Alert: Revolution in the Making?

Perhaps, this will be the beginning of the World War III

Kargil Issue

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

Loyal to Pakistan? Why?

But what does Pakistan really stand for?

Balkan Tragedy: A Re-enactment of the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh

The escalating human tragedy in Kosovo gives me a sense of deja vu

Don’t Worry Mr. Milosevic, America is With You

the killers of Guclukonak will...punish the killers of Racak

Need for a Confederation

India had never been a Nation, it is still not one

A Forgotten Incident

India and Pakistan go to war!

Is Impeachment Realistic

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

Muslims should take control of their own image

Whining about caricatures only shows an unwillingness to face reality.

Caution: Criminal Aliens you may be removed!

You thought you were safe in the U.S.

A Ray of Hope

An eye-witness account of a fund-raising dinner by Imran Khan.

Monks on a Pilgrimage

a peace march to Pakistan across the India-Pakistan border

The Short-Circuiting of Democracy

The Clinton scandal as the unraveling of America.

Wag the Dog

A war between the lackeys of capitalism claiming to represent the free world, and violent, fascist mercenaries

Nuclear Viagra and Nationalist Virility

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

So, We Are Nuclear Too!!

Scenes from a nuclear world

Cash for Vote

An Expatriate Bill.

The Intellectual Imperative

As a people and a nation, Pakistan’s need for intellectual direction has never been greater. So where are the intellectuals?

Imperatives For Economic Development Of Pakistan

So how can we hammer out a consensus around the proposition that we have to rapidly raise the standard of living of the people in Pakistan?

The Exploding Cities of the Developing World

With ever-increasing global integration, problems that arise in one city can quickly spread throughout its region and even worldwide.

The Overlooked Problem of Pakistani Racism.

Discrimination based on ethnic and provincial loyalties is eating away at our country. Why has it not become the issue that it should be?

The Harsh Truth

The first topic of conversation is always Pakistan. Karachi mein kya ho raha hay? The discourse begins ...