Articles with tag: people
Spinning the Public Beating and the Mob Justice
Sindhyar Talpur Apr 8, 2008 interacts: 1You really need to be a bad administrator or power usurper that people are so full of hatred for you that they can’t help but beat you.
Elections and the Future Leaders of Pakistan
Abdullah Wiqar Feb 14, 2008 interacts: 2Future Leaders of Pakistan is an organization that is straining against the shackles of convention and tradition and is aiming to do things a little differently.
I Thought I Heard You Laughing
kiran kiran Feb 4, 2008 interacts: 10Unlike most people I know, I don't believe in love at first sight. But the world being as mad as it is, somehow manages to make you.
Fight Against The Emergeny Continues
Faris Kasim Feb 7, 2008 interacts: 51If we are stressed, if we are constantly worried, then I believe it is a sign of great optimism. The struggle for a better Pakistan has just begun.
A Cursed Nation
Imad Zafar Jan 3, 2008 interacts: 44What a sorrow, we dream of an ideal society a prosperous country but we want someone else to fight for this cause.
The Day Benazir Bhutto Died
Rakshanda Khan Dec 28, 2007 interacts: 4Violent mob hones in on banks, petrol stations, cars and unleashes its fury... In their self expression lies the true voice of the people and the tragedy that is Pakistan today.
The Missing Pakistanis
kashkin dabruski Dec 17, 2007 interacts: 3Where are those souls
Into wilderness, they disappeared
Like autumn leaves,
With no traces
Resist, resist, resist: ‘The gift of a crisis’
Beena Sarwar Nov 24, 2007 interacts: 197General Musharraf’s announcement of an ‘emergency’ on Nov 3 stunned many among this otherwise complacent generation -- enough to finally act upon their convictions.
Cholesterol Say Paak
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 129I usually get my news by driving around the city. I see a look of uncertainty on the faces of the people, but no great movement.
Johnny On The Street
Irfan Pakistani Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 3Should the lawyers be able to recapture the imagination of the nation and catalyze meaningful national resistance, the calculus shall change.
The Roving Stones
Haroon Malik Nov 3, 2007 interacts: 5My lords have announced they will cause revolutionary changes, changes that will cause a grass root level change. But how could they?
Old Wine, Still Older Bottles
Babar Mufti Sep 28, 2007 interacts: 7If the people of Pakistan don’t take to the streets, the politicians are themselves to blame. They have chosen the politics of convenience and non-agitation.
A Writer's People and earlier works of V.S. Naipaul
William Dalrymple Sep 19, 2007 interacts: 26Naipaul was once a penetrating and unpredictable literary critic, but here criticism has been reduced to a series of spikey provocations.
Book Dropper
Ibrahim M Khalil Aug 11, 2007 interacts: 9Nicholas Nassim Taleb says there are two ways to look at your bookshelf. The books you have read and consider yourself well read or...
Letter from Pakistan
imran ahmad Jun 26, 2007 interacts: 55My 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
Monar Jomban (part 4 of 4)
Manali Chakrabarti Mar 28, 2007 interacts: 2They used to say ‘Allah will save us’ and a quarter of a century later I agree ‘only Allah can save us’ - the mess has gone beyond human intervention. I am old and my laughter is my tears too. (He suddenly looked around and said in
Honored
Chowk Staff Mar 28, 2007 interacts: 24Humanists honour psychiatrist and writer Dr. Khalid Sohail
Impressions about Iran
Muhammad Tariq Mar 26, 2007 interacts: 67The world has gone wrong somewhere in understanding them or stereotyping them with other Islamic fundamentalists like the Talibans.
A Nation Reborn
Shaheryar Akbar Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 71Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians and generals, they responded! They awoke! They said in one voice, “enough is enough!” I have ne
My People!
Ahmer Muzammil Feb 8, 2007 interacts: 94I am outraged because I care and I care because it’s my country and I care because it’s my people.
March for Peace
Beena Sarwar May 15, 2005 interacts: 22Indians and Pakistanis are allowed public access for cricket, but not if they are walking for peace
Let the People Meet
Beena Sarwar Jan 9, 2005 interacts: 68In Pakistan, the demand for Indian visas is as much as 1500 – per day – from around the country -
Benazir Bhutto Visits the Bay Area
Ras Siddiqui Oct 10, 2004 interacts: 48One does not have to agree with her political viewpoint. But it would be extremely unwise to ignore her in the Pakistan context.
India-Pakistan: Friends on Visa
Beena Sarwar Mar 13, 2004 interacts: 25When people from India and Pakistan meet, peace seems the most favoured option.
My Friend Pervez
Arvind Verma Feb 19, 2004 interacts: 41There is a small community of desis that includes some Sri Lankans, many Bangladeshis, two Nepalis, a larger presence from Pakistan and of course the diasphora from north to south, east and west of India. Obviously, there are Patels, Singhs and Reddys, as
From Silent Majority to Innocent Civilians
Salman A Chaudhry Nov 18, 2003 interacts: 8To me, it seems to be more of a silenced majority, one that does not speak, because it is denied the right to speak, and since it is too busy trying to survive, literally, it is less concerned with demanding the right to speak.
