Articles with tag: ISI
Pakistan Poll Rigging
Riaz Haq Feb 12, 2008 interacts: 13When you hear the opposition, particularly PPP and PML-N, describe the details of alleged rigging, it seems they have a great deal of knowledge and expertise in this specialty.
Comments on Ongoing Debate about ISI in the Afghan War
Agha Amin Dec 7, 2007 interacts: 69The Afghan War started a grand party for Pakistan's ruling elite and even Pakistan. Afghan refugees were cleverly and criminally used to solicit US and Saudi aid. All glorified as Jihad.
The Conspiracy Theory
Moeed Pirzada Dec 7, 2007 interacts: 253Even today I come across many adults who essentially think of the world in such simplistic terms: interconnected; controlled and run by a single source of intelligence.
The Plan To Topple Pakistan Military
Ahmed Quraishi Nov 29, 2007 interacts: 158Its not about Musharraf anymore. This is about clipping the wings of a strong Pakistani military, denying space for China in Pakistan, squashing the ISI, stirring ethnic unrest...
Talk with Shandana Minhas author of Tunnel Vision
Mayank AustenSoofi Nov 27, 2007 interacts: 7Why would I sell to western readers? My loyalty is to the story. As a storyteller you don’t choose the story, the story chooses you.
Dispensation of Justice is the Main Pillar of Democracy
Ikramul Haq Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 15The three constitutions, framed in Pakistan, proved to be just pieces of paper; their sanctity frequently violated by the men with guns, and by those who authored and approved these documents.
Whither Emergency
Rezwan Bajwa Nov 12, 2007 interacts: 19General Musharraf’s self perception of being indispensable to Pakistan is now compounded further as the US affirms him as the most valuable partner in the ‘war on terror’.
Imran Khan at LUMS
Ammar Rashid Nov 4, 2007 interacts: 145Amidst speculation of the imposition of emergency in the country by the state, Imran was here to speak about the role of the youth in the country’s political future.
A New US Vision?
Moeed Pirzada Aug 8, 2007 interacts: 20The US Congressional bill designed to implement the '9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007' contains the seeds of new thinking on Pakistan.
Commercialized Sports
Vidyadhar Date Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 3The days of feeling empowered over defeating former colonial masters are gone. That is a small satisfaction and it cannot compensate for our lowly performance in many fields.
An Unexpected Birthday Gift
Feroz R Khan Mar 19, 2007 interacts: 66It was a case of bad and ill timed advice that ignited a constitutional crisis and unlike any previous crisis, this one has developed a momentum of its own and it is this momentum that has rattled the government in Islamabad.
Thar Desert Festival puts Tourism Ministry to Shame
Kamal Siddiqi Mar 4, 2007 interacts: 5Let no one, however, be under the impression that Umerkot has nothing to offer.
Pandora Box of Television in Pakistan
Shahnawaz Farooqui Feb 21, 2007 interacts: 246How can dozens of TV channels run profitably in a country, where the total volume of the advertising industry is not more that six to seven billion rupees?
I, Consumer
farheen zehra Jan 5, 2007 interacts: 135Whether it is marriage, job or just looking pretty-you need to be fair. A great value to promote in a country where the vast majority is dark skinned! And in the hope to become ‘the fairest of them all’ – girls have made Fair&Lovely
The Art of Eating Gulab Jamun
Vikram Karve Jul 22, 2006 interacts: 5One evening I suddenly feel an urge, a craving, a desperate sort of yearning, for my favourite sweet – The Gulab Jamun.
Valentine
Feroz R Khan Jul 2, 2006 interacts: 19The politics, which is practiced in Pakistan, has no bearing to the reality that exists in Pakistan and thus, the political debate in Pakistan is limited to a few personal arguments of the political parties in opposition and the government in power.
Pakistan Travelogue I
Parag Vohra Mar 29, 2005 interacts: 581This is the first ever visit to the land of my forefathers that anyone in my extended family has taken after the 1947 migration.
Cell Phone Blues
Ibrahim M Khalil Mar 25, 2005 interacts: 12Mark Twain once said, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society”. In today’s society, anyone without a cell phone is naked.
Am I Insane?
Emma Nisa Mar 4, 2005 interacts: 149Let me tell you about myself. I have a law degree, and got married straight out of University. My Prince Charming is no other then my Bhabi’s brother. Yes I made the mistake of getting married in a “Watta Satta”.
Rantings of an Aid Worker
Zehra Rizvi Feb 17, 2005 interacts: 10I am of course, in this mindset that once D and I leave and the structures that we will set up will collapse. How the fuck did I get so colonial? What is the middle ground here for me?
Strangers in California
Amrita Rajan Jan 16, 2005 interacts: 38It’s one thing to come out to your wife and another to come out to your entire family
One Day At a Time
Temporal Oct 16, 2004 interacts: 53For As’r prayers they do not thrust their staff in the ground like they used to in the days of Muhammed (saw). Today they look at the calculated chart and then look at their wrist watches. This is a simple but effective use of reasoning that
One More Day Before Debu’s Death
Gautam Basu Sep 28, 2004 interacts: 10Debu suddenly became very philosophical and scratching his crotch asked Ali, 'Hey Ali, my left eye ball is dancing since this morning. You know all this shit. Isn’t this a good omen. Doesn’t it mean I will succeed in my dhanda today? Or i
Two Poems
Aamir Ansari Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 23I walk around the house, restoring solitude
From room to room, only to find your smile
Wrapped around my hand, opening doors.
On-Air Exclusive!
Amrita Rajan Sep 2, 2004 interacts: 4Ted Turner’s Cable News Network, once disparagingly called the Chicken Noodle Network, now “the most trusted name in news” or CNN, changed everything...
Passion and Obsession in Kathmandu
Revathy Gopal Apr 12, 2004 interacts: 6To drag a feudal society kicking and screaming, into the twenty-first century is not the easiest of tasks. We should know. India has been trying to do just that for the last fifty-four years.
Oh Myopia, Thy Name is Pakistan
Iqbal Mustafa Feb 3, 2004 interacts: 108Wisdom is the ability to achieve desired results in the long run; foolishness is the propensity to grab the immediate opportunity today and harm oneself tomorrow. Enlightened self-interest is not as dazzling as street-smart wizardry but it prevails in the
Of faith, Engineering and the Human Visual System
Irfan HAMID Jan 9, 2004 interacts: 30The creator of the human body must have had perfection in mind when he sat down on the drawing board.
To Be Or Not To Be Home?
sameena khan Nov 26, 2003 interacts: 65Then there is the equation with the husband. All the ladies that I spoke to put their husbands on hold till the weekend. 'Otherwise, the entire schedule goes haywire', said one. 'Can’t get up and get going early morn next day', chimed another. 'Who
The More The Merrier?
Bhaswati Ghosh Jun 6, 2003 interacts: 19the present state of Indian television news channels
Actions Speak Loud
Nadeem Akram May 5, 2003 interacts: 20If we as a nation decided today that we are going to boycott American goods and services
Uncle Sam Talking in His Sleep
Tahir Gul Hasan Mar 28, 2003 interacts: 13Assorted pearls of wisdom from the U.S. State Department
Goats, Terrorists, and the People Who Love Them
Bina Shah Feb 13, 2003 interacts: 67this plate of meat being devoured by my relatives was Fluffy the Goat two hours ago
Meditations of Busybee
Harish Nambiar Sep 30, 2001 interacts: 12can Mumbai have Rudi Guiliani for Mayor?
A Sensory Report of the Agra Summit From Bombay (Part I and II)
Harish Nambiar Jul 23, 2001 interacts: 87Maybe peace is destined only for Midnight’s Children. Give or take a generation.
Follow the People to Peace
Beena Sarwar Jul 20, 2001 interacts: 198The future is there for all to see.
Karachi Dreams
Shandana Minhas May 18, 2001 interacts: 25Karachi thrums like the strings of an electric guitar
Biases of the American Press
Omar Mirza Apr 1, 2001 interacts: 147why is Pakistan, and not India America’s Worst Nightmare?
Tehelka Tapes: Modernising Media Morality
Harish Nambiar Apr 1, 2001 interacts: 80the triumph of the reporter over the editor
Letters and Bombs
Amitava Kumar Mar 1, 2001 interacts: 94How did you convince your wife that you were not the enemy?
All Because a Flight Was On Time!!
Veeresh Malik Jan 17, 2001 interacts: 63A few nights ago I returned to Delhi from the West of the country ...
Milestones
Raywat Deonandan Nov 30, 2000 interacts: 11Shared global tragedies and triumphs have traditionally served to unite a people
The Ring
Jawahara Saidullah Aug 6, 2000 interacts: 16Of Angootha Baba’s divine toe and the miracles it engenders
Why Clinton Should Not Visit Pakistan: an Indian Viewpoint
Veeresh Malik Mar 25, 2000 interacts: 29The day he landed in India, our cricket team lost a match to South Africa by 10 runs, one that they were supposed to win
Black and White
Shandana Minhas May 3, 1999 interacts: 32The latest in trilogy, shot in black and white.
Mainstreaming of Peeping Tom
Aliya Saeed Sep 29, 1998 interacts: 20My shrink thinks I enjoy watching other people because of something to do with power
Clock Speed
Robert Lucky Aug 17, 1998 interacts: 2I’m not going to stay stuck at 3 MHz, or whatever it is, while those computers boast increasingly higher clock rates
Fun-Da-Mentalists
Amar D Dhindsa Jun 16, 1998 interacts: 3An interview with Aki from the hard hitting, dare we call them, British Asian band Fun-Da-Mental.
Don’t Go to the Bathroom in India!
Saeed Jaffer Nov 21, 1997 interacts: 19Although many fear that younger generations will turn their backs on their heritage with the dilution of culture via satellite television or American passports...
Say Something Let’s Talk
Saima Shah Aug 25, 1997 interacts: 65I want to ask why we don’t know how much we love something till we lose it? Is that what will happen with Pakistan? I want to ask why Winnie the Pooh’s little red jacket never quite covers his tummy.
