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Kashmir Liberated, Others Languish

Beena Sarwar   Mar 7, 2008   interacts: 37

Kashmir Singh spent 35 years in various Pakistani prisons before Ansar Burney, the caretaker minister of human rights found him and obtained a presidential pardon.

The Naval War College Bomb Blasts

Feroz R Khan   Mar 4, 2008   interacts: 357

I was about 800 meters away from the bomb blast. The force of the explosion was powerful enough to rattle the windows nearly a mile

When the Will of the People Poses an 'Inconvenient' Truth

Beena Sarwar   Mar 4, 2008   interacts: 16

"What kind of democracy is it that puts the fate of the country in the hands of a Nawaz Sharif and an Asif Zardari? My

The ANP Challenge

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Feb 22, 2008   interacts: 767

What if instead of a PPP prime minister or PML-N prime minister, ANP’s Asfandyar Wali Khan was to become the

Mother of all Elections

Moeed Pirzada   Feb 22, 2008   interacts: 9

In this most dangerous place on earth, almost 37 million men and women stood in queues to vote and by mid-night almost all had reached

Between Sanity and Insanity

Amar Jaleel   Feb 21, 2008   interacts: 14

No one knows what kind of torture was perpetrated on Zen during his 15-day interrogation. After 15 days when he was produced before the judge

Chimera

Ayesha Umar   Feb 21, 2008   interacts: 11

They sipped the coffee quietly then she asked, “So what brings you here?” “You know very well.” He replied looking straight into her eyes. She

Voting For Change

Beena Sarwar   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 558

Despite pre-poll manipulation and irregularities voters have rejected the politics of hate and religious extremism.

Election 2008: Looking Ahead

Ishrat Saleem   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 1

The election result has come as a touch of healing to the anxious, wounded and exhausted and tense nation.

People's Verdict

Dilawar Syed   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 7

A left-of-center Pashtun nationalist party and Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) bags more than 60% of the seats in provinces neighboring Afghanistan.

Long Road Ahead

Khalid Bhatti   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 0

PML(Q) showed a very dismal performance with managing just 38 seats against the boastful claims of more than 110 seats in national assembly before the

At Last...Nationalism at Last

ahmad hayat   Feb 19, 2008   interacts: 35

Socialism, the destroyer of the civilisations, took the world under its claws after the Second World War. This (Kosovo) win might be the beginning of

The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Feb 18, 2008   interacts: 24

As soon as the western powers recognise Kosovo as an independent country, it will cause a huge dislocation in the fabric of all other separatist

Pakistan Poll Rigging

Riaz Haq   Feb 17, 2008   interacts: 13

When you hear the opposition, particularly PPP and PML-N, describe the details of alleged rigging, it seems they have a great deal of knowledge and

February 18th, 2008-Election Day

Jungraiz Pukhtunyar   Feb 17, 2008   interacts: 338

Election in Tribal Areas and Pukhtunkhua province has been marred by violence. There have been attacks on the offices and

Political Issues Ahead of Pakistan Elections

Mehroz Sadruddin   Feb 17, 2008   interacts: 6

If these elections are not free and fair, irrespective of the turn out, public reaction would “boil up in the times to come,” according to

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