Articles with tag: future

Better Times

Muhammad Farhan Oct 5, 2008 interacts: 13

It is Akhtar’s fifth year in captivity. Like the others, he too is given the food confiscated from the UN and other aids which came in frequently at different locations in the city.

Paper Trail

Mutaal Mooquin Jun 5, 2008 interacts: 6

To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.

State of Pakistan: What Can Pakistanis Do

Shiraz Mahmood Nov 9, 2007 interacts: 39

As compared to countries of 250 years or more, 60 is a mere child. Nation building takes time and people have to stand by their nation.

My mother, me and my daughter

farheen zehra Aug 27, 2007 interacts: 10

There comes a moment in everyone’s life when a door bell or a telephone call changes everything.

Its Another New Year... What's to Celebrate?

M B Qasmi Dec 26, 2006 interacts: 7

This is going to be a festive season: Eiduz Zuha, Christmas, New Year and many other festivals in many lands will be celebrated in late December, followed by the dawn of 2007. Will it be a new beginning; respite from mayhem and relief from deprivation for

The Calculus of Miscalculated Human Misery

Muhammad A Khan Nov 11, 2006 interacts: 88

The clash of civilizations has well unfolded but the Western world constantly repudiates the claim.

Dreams, Hopes, and the Road Ahead

Shaheryar Akbar Nov 5, 2006 interacts: 5

We often look to the West for guidance. Let us therefore discover the true meaning of modernity as it historically unfolded within the fabric of Western societies. Bound by the chains of dogma and doctrine; unable to explore their own creativity; and incr

As Good As A Mile

Sheela Jaywant Nov 8, 2004 interacts: 2

He can’t understand why the relative wants to know something she wouldn’t understand even if he told her. Why can’t Indians just let people do their jobs. Always, why this, why that.

Here’s looking at me…

Farzana Versey Oct 7, 2004 interacts: 32

When I came out of self-hypnosis I was in a sweat and the faces around me a blur. Did I imagine that we would all be transformed into aliens with laser-beam eyes and horns visible only to the ’inner circle’?

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Saman Jafri Oct 3, 2004 interacts: 6

With a magnifying glass in one hand and the other holding my palm, he told me that I would be traveling very shortly.

When Pigs Fly

Adnan Rafiq Sep 22, 2004 interacts: 188

Thirty years ago, in 2025, the hapless white population tried to mobilize a massive resistance movement -- now called the Mutiny -- led by Pat Buchanan, Jr. But, the cunning South Indian mind crushed the great white hope once and for all.

A Mesopotamian Summer

Feroz R Khan Jun 6, 2004 interacts: 12

The United States cannot avoid the usage of military force, as it does not trust the Iraqis enough to transfer political power to them.

My Nephew’s Martian Retreat

Ali Hasan Cemendtaur Mar 26, 2004 interacts: 9

I won’t get married till there is a sustainable human colony on Mars. I want my future wife to give birth to the first child born outside Earth.