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Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

Tahir Gul Hasan   Apr 17, 2008   interacts: 51

I am late for the Glasgow-bound flight, and although I do say ‘the usual’ at the check-in counter, my favourite seat near an over-wing emergency

Last But Not Least

Ather Naqvi   Apr 17, 2008   interacts: 3

Poverty may be more than a silent killer. This sentence cannot be ignored as emotional rhetoric since, sadly, it has become a hair-raising reality.

Akbar and Alexander

Murad A Baig   Apr 17, 2008   interacts: 147

Jodha Akbar has stirred considerable interest in the historic Akbar but it mostly shows his softer romantic side and rather little of his tougher character.

Gen. Petraeus & Crocker's Washington Show is a Damp Squib

Gajendra Singh   Apr 17, 2008   interacts: 7

If an act of mercy is twice blessed, then an act of illegal invasion and brutal occupation has since proved to be doubly cursed for

The Psychology of Mothering

Khalid Sohail   Apr 13, 2008   interacts: 287

It is interesting that as our culture is changing and many women are reluctant to take on motherly duties, more men are becoming motherly and

Benazir’s Legacy

Beena Sarwar   Apr 13, 2008   interacts: 120

How could Pakistan’s all-powerful president and chief of the army staff be dislodged -- other than through the political process?

Is It Treason to Question

Amer Nazir   Apr 13, 2008   interacts: 15

In the General Hospital in Lahore, in the top most brain surgery institute of Pakistan, people lie in verandas in unhygienic conditions.

Europe and the Film Culture

noman siddiqui   Apr 13, 2008   interacts: 38

Despite the speculated aggressive reactions, the film “Fitna” was released on the Internet on March 27, 2008.

Spinning the Public Beating and the Mob Justice

Sindhyar Talpur   Apr 9, 2008   interacts: 1

You 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

The ‘shoey’ Side of Politics

Ather Naqvi   Apr 9, 2008   interacts: 517

People had not shut their ‘shocked’ mouths at the treatment meted out to Arbab Ghulam Rahim when they saw Sher Afgan being roughed up by

How to End Politics of Hate and Intolerance

Ikramul Haq   Apr 9, 2008   interacts: 221

The man behind the politics of intolerance and hate, symbol of discord rather than harmony as president of State, is responsible for present state of

Student Movement Revisited

S Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi   Apr 6, 2008   interacts: 25

Dr Haroon Ahmed and Saleem Asmi, two stalwarts of the first student movement in Pakistan, the Democratic Students Federation (DSF) write to set the record

The Importance of Natural Selection

Zarrar Said   Apr 6, 2008   interacts: 604

Throughout time we have asked ourselves whether we are fallen angels or risen apes. The answer lies in a simple yet tabooed subject.

Color-Blind Love

Feroz Qutabshahi   Apr 3, 2008   interacts: 353

Worldwide, interracial marriages are on the rise. However, 20 years ago, because of my religion, a German priest would not officiate our marriage nor would

Bhutto’s Judicial Murder Revisited

Karamatullah K Ghori   Apr 3, 2008   interacts: 197

For an insecure gatecrasher like Zia, Bhutto’s engineered ‘judicial murder’ was a zero sum game: it was either Bhutto on the gallows or his own

A Walk down Memory Lane

Zeejah    Apr 2, 2008   interacts: 26

Forgive me if I am not taken in by the high sounding statements issued by the winners (and losers) of Election 2008, I simply see

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