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Indo-Pak Relations

Tweet to Indian Foreign Ministry: Talk to Pakistan stupid

Vivek Balaraman

It is difficult to imagine a less imaginative foreign affairs policy than is apparently being conducted by SM Krishna and Nearly-UN-Secretary-General Tharoor.

Feb 8, 2010   Views 1332   Interacts 49

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The Curious Case of the Pakistani Liberal

Irfan Waheed

Faced with the choice of being either secular or anti-war, liberals have overwhelmingly opted for the former. Their fundamental error has been their perception that being secular and dovish is mutually exclusive.

Feb 7, 2010   Views 637   Interacts 11

Sports

Cricket Transparency

ummad mazhar

Is there any link between performance of the team and selection committee’s pays? Is there any evaluation procedure for the selection committee, for the individual players? Is it published? Why not?

Feb 7, 2010   Views 173   Interacts 1

Environment

No Rain, No Grain

Munir Ahmed

If we enter into agricultural drought, the third and final stage, it would affect thousands of small farmers all over Pakistan who would not only lose their investment but also would not earn profit. It would lead them below the poverty line.

Feb 7, 2010   Views 254   Interacts 3

Life

Creating a Meaningful Life

Khalid Sohail, Mind Space

"It is never too late to become what you might have been."

Feb 3, 2010   Views 1816  Interacts 30

Life

Prescription Bosom

zuhair vazir

He was home now. He spilled out three pills into his hand and downed them with soda. He then lit a cigarette and waited for the chemicals to kick in and do their job. He felt as if he had spent most of his life

Feb 3, 2010   Views 776   Interacts 5

Current Affairs

United We Rant

Absar Khan

Pakistani government should immediately demand Dr. Aafia back from US. She's a Pakistani citizen and should be prosecuted in Pakistani courts -- if she's guilty.

Feb 3, 2010   Views 4043   Interacts 83

Politics

Social Contract, Written or Unwritten Constitutions, Ibn e Khaldoun, and Pakistan

Munir Saami

Many a times, we strive to understand with sincerity as to why a constitutional rule or respect of laws has not been entrenched in Pakistani society. The answer to that may lie in Ibn e Khaldoun's theory of "Assabiyat” that can be translated as tribalis

Feb 3, 2010   Views 889   Interacts 6

Current Affairs

India Factor for Pakistani Army

Agha Amin

What Pakistan's generals are claiming is not about Islam or Pakistan but about narrow institutional and class interests of Pakistani generals and their attached civil servant, feudal and business classes.

Feb 3, 2010   Views 5829   Interacts 118

Books Arts & Culture

Growing Up In Old Lahore: Chasing Used Books

Ali Farhad

I grew up in Androon Shehr of Lahore in the 1980s. Most of my childhood and teenage years were spent in my Nana Jan’s house located at Lodge Road in Old Anarkali. It was an old but large house, left by a Hindu migrant family

Jan 31, 2010   Views 2808   Interacts 31

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