Curse of Arranged or Forced Marriages #5 also see the ad for searching records for "Birth, Death and Marriage" (notice the order:) ) on the right hand side.

Will President Bush Invade Iran? $300 a barrel would be a boom for Solar energy and other alternate energy companies....
at $300 a barrel, a solar powered house, 1 electric powered commute car and 1 gas powered for long distances would make perfect sense.

Will President Bush Invade Iran? hamidm: "the world could have avoided the carnage of ww-ii if the leaders at that time had the gonads to invade nazi germany "
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people never remember what could have happened. they only remember what happened. some times it is better to let things happen.
presence of bad people in the set increases the importance of good people in the set.

I say, let iran have the bomb.
If you fear, they might drop it on jews, then may eb best course if to let them do that. you think Iran would be better off after that? may be 50 years after that event (if it happens) few iranians will sit in a cold cave hukkabaar and discuss bush in favorable terms:-) if that(bomb on jews) does not drop, then even better.

Communists and the Making of Pakistan kaal, you are right... communists in general have their hearts in the right place and their larger view of how things should be in terms of justice, equality etc are fine things..even if a bit idealistic, it is good to have ideals to aim than not have one. problem I see with communists is their solution is all out revolution with absolutely upside down system compared to existing whatever. my few dozen gray hairs tell me that incremental change/progress is easier to achieve, with less bloodhsed and suffering and has better chances to sustain in the long run than an all out bloody revolution for exreme utopian change - utopia that will require crude force and authority to implement and sustain.

on the other hand the whole idea of communism, marxist left have played and can continue to play a positive role without achieving the revolution. it is acting as a counter weight to the right and retrogressive forces and encourages reforms for work place equality etc. inspite of occasional seemingly anti-nationalist blunders like support of TNT, opposition to nuke deal etc, overall they are a positive influence...until they turn fundamentalists and then they become hard to distinguish from the cave dwellers of tora bora.:-)

Communists and the Making of Pakistan Lokraj, no doubt communists had a softer corner towards creation of Pakistan...may be more prominent members were not happy but general feeling seems that it might help bring revolution faster hence good or OK to happen..let feudals divide themselves now, we can always put the 2 countries together after revolution. what happened later probably made comrades in India feel guilty (while Pakistani comrades are still licking their wounds on their lifeless bodies after 2 generations). My feeling is punjabi comrades' bold opposition to Khalistanis was partly due to the realization of their failure in 1947...it was a repeat that they couldn't afford to let happen again..secondly communist cadre was many times stronger in 80's than it was in 40's. it probably could not give fight in 40's that it gave now.

correction: deepak chopra was not comrade...was not he son of lala jagat narayan?

Back To Idol Worship may be Chomsky should read this article:-)

Back To Idol Worship it is good that writer knows about Naom Chomsky...it is sad that he puts him in the same category as AQ Khan. what eff?

nation building, economic progress etc are good and dandy..certainly needs attention of the nation. but a nation that writer wants to build and prosper with such a silly views on music and arts is not worth building.
thanks god most pakistani love music and having fun.

writer saab, listen more to your daughter (god bless her with dreams) than your neighbourhood mullah..that would be good for you, your daughter and your neighbourhood.:)

Whither Pakistan? The Presidential \'Election\' and Beyond arabic, japanese?
I thought you guys were learning Chinese.
well..at least Romair suggested to do so few years ago.:)

Musharraf’s New Ordinance Hoopla masadi saab, I noticed you never cursed or used bad words when you were in US...but lately you are using lot of sheeday nayee and phiddu teli's dialogs..eh pencho lahore da paani edaN da ay.:)

Dillu Ram Kausari: The Hindu Poet who Loved The Prophet hamidm bhai, duniyan nu khush karna baRha aukha...if one is born East of Attock, one has to worry about one's face, if one is born West of Attock, one has to worry about one's ass. choices are: fair and lovely or ky jelly. :)

Dillu Ram Kausari: The Hindu Poet who Loved The Prophet poor Dillu Ram...wrong place wrong time...he could have been a prophet.:-)

Pakistani Twist to “Aliens in America” TV Series show was so so...but host's daughter might get more popular than Raja Omair.;)

Limits of Multiculturalism #241
kaal, Guru Gobind singh was born in Patna but his father guru Tegh bahadur was a Punjabi (born in amritsar) and mother Gujjri (also Punjabi, daughter of Lal Chand of Kartarpur, Punjab). I believed he stayed in Patna for few years(?) before moving to Anandpur in Punjab along with his parents.

Limits of Multiculturalism hamdim:"i still remember the first time i went to my ancestral village i had to squat in the fields to relieve myself ...... the wheat, or what passes for wheat in the potohar, had just been harvested and the darn stalks were sticking six inches above the ground so that i had to stick my ass up in the air "
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hahaha i think we can all emphathise with you..even the ones who did it that way daily.:)

The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People\'s Party ps #191: I took 1:7 population disparity. does not matter to illustrate the point.

The need for De-Bhuttofication of the Pakistan People\'s Party Pakistani students
Undergraduate 488
Graduate 32

Indian students
Undergrad Students 662
Grad Students 102
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manto, It is interesting math...and actually the above data goes against your point.

Let us compensate/adjust the above data for size populations they come from.
but before that, it clearly shows that there are lot more Pakistani student at York unviersity than indian students (whatever one wants to interpret from that)

662 indian students for 1000 million
that means 1/7th of that for 150 million (population equivalent to pakistan)

that means 94 Indian students (from 150 million Indian pop)
while 488 pakistani students from 150 million Pakistani pop

that means for every 5 pakistani at York university if we will encounter 1 Indian student after compensating for parent population size.
since Indian muslims are 15% of total population

we should see 1 Indian muslim student for 35 pakistani students at York univ.
when you said 1 indian student for 25 pakistani students you were underestimating.