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Articles with tag: GEO

Pigeons on My Balcony

Prashant Bhatt   Jul 5, 2008   interacts: 5

"They have laid eggs. Now Bhatt, if you do not throw them out, the babies will dirty your balcony like anything." That is the way they look at it, my dear human friends.

Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come?

Moeed Pirzada   Jun 27, 2008   interacts: 175

A new kind of voting belt is being created where people are more aware of the larger issues, of national causes and increasingly form opinions under the spell of Urdu media?

Mind the Gap, The Generation Gap That Is

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Apr 21, 2008   interacts: 8

Between 9/11, Afghanistan, Bush and Iraq, a new generation is forming which will define America for the next thirty years at the least. I call it the angry generation.

Mass Difference: The Bhuttos and Civil Society

Nadeem F Paracha   Jan 6, 2008   interacts: 22

Populist, mass-oriented politics can effectively cancel out the two most prominent anti-populist strains in Pakistan i.e. the politico-religious and the elite-bourgeois.

Media: The more things change...

Beena Sarwar   Nov 30, 2007   interacts: 77

Where only one Najam Sethi was picked up under the Sharif regime, over the past eight years, dozens have been picked up and tortured by Pakistan’s secret agencies.

Pakistani Media Crippled

Moeed Pirzada   Nov 23, 2007   interacts: 6

The Musharraf government wants to financially cripple this most popular of the media community to set an example - just like the judiciary.

Musharraf and The Media

Moeed Pirzada   Nov 20, 2007   interacts: 15

With the imposition of martial law, all TV channels suddenly disappeared. BBC and CNN and Fox all were gone.

The Press Ordinance and Its Repercussions

Malik Aamir   Nov 17, 2007   interacts: 46

Did the dictator really shut down GEO News for the better 'interests' of Pakistan?

Opportunity Knocks But Once

sheela jaywant   Oct 15, 2007   interacts: 1

The story goes into the mind/psyche of a surgeon. A competitive, aggressive, brilliant, trained professional mind.

Nature and Natural Disasters

Salman Hameed   Oct 2, 2006   interacts: 11

Today, astronomers can predict eclipses with high precision for thousands of years. One day we will be able to do the same for earthquakes. Such an understanding will only come when we stop seeking supernatural explanations for natural phenomenon.

Meaningful Giants in ‘Eurasian Balkan’

Muhammad A Khan   Aug 3, 2006   interacts: 6

When the world is getting hoarse on the sight of ‘pressure cooker’, unfortunately no platform at the Eurasian Balkan level is being evolved for the dialogue among the Titans.

The Navel of Asia

Fitaa Feeraz   Sep 26, 2004   interacts: 4

Nowhere on earth’s surface is there a comparable cluster of mountains. In a chaos of contours at the heart, or perhaps the navel of Asia, six major mountain systems lie locked together.

Lahore ka Jughraphiah

Mohammad Gill   Sep 2, 2004   interacts: 172

..The elders have described the essence of all this research in these curt and expressive words: Lahore is Lahore. If you cannot find Lahore from this descrption, it only proves that your education is defective and inteeligence questionable...

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