Articles with tag: population
Pakistan Shinning III - Population and Literacy
Zarrar Said Apr 3, 2007 interacts: 17There is no precedent in history of any nation demonstrating double-digit (or even high single digit) GDP growth while spending next to nothing on its human capital.
The Fertility Debate
Aisha Sarwari May 12, 2006 interacts: 35The role of women in determining their fertility is also a factor of politics and power established by the clerical class rather than what Islam actually specifies. Many Muslim countries assert that women do not have a right to deny pregnancy
Linking Poverty and Population
Kamal Siddiqi Apr 24, 2005 interacts: 41Currently Pakistan is the sixth most populated country in the world. It also enjoys the dubious distinction of having the largest people under the poverty line, estimated at over 50 million.
I’m With Stupid
Haroon Moghul Jul 3, 2003 interacts: 6thought to myself, as I searched for the right kind of chocolate fudge cake, that I was now living in an ascendant empire, the most powerful country on earth and perhaps in all of human history. An empire!
Bari Imam’s Republic of Peeristan
Hala Malik Jul 2, 2003 interacts: 46Before, this disease was limited to the illiterate population of Pakistan, but now it’s becoming more of a fashion for literate and well-known people to be seeing some Pir or Sufi. It’s the latest new trend.
Lanka - A Small Sashay
arti buxi Jun 27, 2003 interacts: 15On a fine March morning, I too packed my passport and landed into the hassle free Colombo airport. The way I see it, supreme happiness is ‘Visa on Arrival’.
Yesterday and Tomorrow in India Today
Dost Mittar Jun 7, 2003 interacts: 166Here was, then, the India of yesterday: poor, hungry, mired in poverty, highly dependent upon the vagaries of weather and yet full of life with colour, dance and music.
Women in Religious Scriptures
Sushil Bhatnagar May 15, 2003 interacts: 315Gender relationships in religious frame-work
Air Cdre Rizwanullah Khan Shaheed Memorial Trust
Samina Rizwan May 4, 2003 interacts: 26how will we make sure that the contribution to this world happens anyway, in the name of the dearly departed
As the Bald Eagle Tries to Rule
Veeresh Malik Mar 21, 2003 interacts: 127I knew some guys who hitch-hiked this route.
My Two Pence on the W-word
Maryam Ansari Mar 20, 2003 interacts: 68I can't swallow how half a million people are scheduled to die in a period of three weeks
The Endangered Species
Bina Shah Nov 15, 2002 interacts: 146I’m just waiting for the day when South Asian women are added to the WWF’s endangered species list.
Worldwide India-Pakistan peace movement begins?
Ras Siddiqui Jul 15, 2002 interacts: 285It is time for Indians and Pakistanis worldwide to re-humanize their enemies
A Pakistani School’s Visit to India
Alia Amirali Aug 16, 2001 interacts: 1051Nowhere else in the world can one enter an enemy country and feel so at ease.
Pagans and Competitive Conversions
Murad A Baig Mar 12, 1999 interacts: 67On conversions and reverse conversions
Intolerance in Official Practice
Raza May 3, 1998 interacts: 15Why is it necessary to condemn someone’s personal beliefs in a place as irrelevant as the passport form?
Selective Islam in Pakistan
Imran Khan Jan 21, 1998 interacts: 50I feel there are certain western countries with far more Islamic traits than us, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens.
