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Understanding Sanatana Dharma

Nazar Khan   Jun 29, 2004   interacts: 755

Dharma is the process for aligning one’s body, mind and soul with the nature in search of the Ultimate Truth

He had no Choice!

Bilal Musharraf   Oct 14, 1999   interacts: 1111

A personal perspective on the suspension of parliament

Desi: The False Ideology

Aisha Sarwari   Jun 1, 2001   interacts: 1209

To understand what I felt as a Pakistani nationalist can be imagined by thinking of a parent raising a child who wants to have the

A Pakistani School’s Visit to India

Alia Amirali   Aug 16, 2001   interacts: 1051

Nowhere else in the world can one enter an enemy country and feel so at ease.

The Meaning of Pakistan

Aisha Sarwari   Mar 10, 2001   interacts: 874

Metaphysical Politics of Pakistan

Girls Gone Wild

Shandana Minhas   Apr 2, 2007   interacts: 1644

The kidnapping of civilians and policemen by the students and teachers of the madrassas associated with the Lal Masjid, as well as recent events in

Black Pakistan and White Pakistan

Saima Shah   Nov 7, 2005   interacts: 934

Black Pakistan is largely unknown and undefined. Like Voldemort it rises unannounced to strike and then disappears we know not where. It is among us

Chowk, Jay, a Ditch and I

anNy    Aug 18, 2001   interacts: 1086

You fill up my senses- all of them :0)

Pakistan Travelogue II

Parag Vohra   Apr 5, 2005   interacts: 786

The son of a humble weaver, he was very attached to a Brahmin named Madho Lal and to immortalize the friendship between the two, he

The Mahatma’s Progeny

Farzana Versey   Apr 4, 2002   interacts: 988

How Responsible is Gandhi for Hindutva?

Sex and Pakistan vs. Rape and The World Media

Saima Shah   Sep 23, 2005   interacts: 344

The safe image of ‘us poor but creative Indians making a living’ is not Pakistan’s. The safe image of ‘us hardworking Chinese—open a factory?’ is

Sher Shah Suri

Yasser Latif Hamdani   Apr 9, 2001   interacts: 914

the first true social reformer in the history of Indo-Pakistan

Preventing More Lal Masjids

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Jul 10, 2007   interacts: 962

What should the government do after the guns stop firing and the hostages are out, whether dead or alive?

Let’s talk to Mallika Sherawat’s Breasts

Farzana Versey   Jan 4, 2005   interacts: 49

Does that reduce her in any way? Do you know of any woman who has got silicon implants to help in research or because she

What Next After Karachi’s Carnage?

Pervez Hoodbhoy   May 16, 2007   interacts: 1025

Although Musharraf denies that he wants a postponement, a lengthy martial law may now be his only chance for a continuation of his dictatorial rule

No Fault Of Mine

Dilip DSouza   Jul 21, 2001   interacts: 836

We nurture a strange vision of patriotism in India these days. As Pakistan yells at us, accusing us of misdeeds, we must shout louder still.

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