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Pakistan’s Prevailing Political And Economic Mess
Mehroz SadruddinThe Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) though a laudable incentive, is highly insufficient. With rising inflation, the Rs 1000 package may be next to nothing.
Jul 15, 2008 Views 1070 Interacts 15Society
Of medical students, passports and religious tolerance
furkan aliWho am I to declare that Mirza Ghulam Ahmed Quadiani is an impostor nabi? Why on earth am I even being asked the question?
Jul 15, 2008 Views 6989 Interacts 268Travel
An Ode Called Amritsar
ammara ahmad
On hearing that I was about to visit her ancestral city, my mother gave me instructions to reach her childhood home from the railway station...
Business & Economy
Banana Republic
Faysal MalikKhaliq wanted to buy bananas so he inquired the price per dozen. “120 rupees sir”, we were told. I thought I miss heard so I asked again. “120 rupees per
Jul 15, 2008 Views 1333 Interacts 12Column
The Non-Existent Tourist’s Guide To Pakistan
Nadeem F Paracha, Cafe BlackThe male-female ratio of the population is 50-50, even though, according to local traditions in the north, women do not exist. Only men and goats.
Jul 13, 2008 Views 6918 Interacts 142Current Affairs
Edward De Bono's Point C: Situtation in Pakistan
Faysal MalikCapital of a nuclear power now plunges into darkness daily, for 5 to 6 hours. In small cities, this duration is 11 to 16 hours. With hottest months of the
Jul 13, 2008 Views 1237 Interacts 9Life
Lighting Up My Fire
Ahmed SadozaiI switch on the radio, and a good song from the eighties is playing. I start reminiscing about the olden days, the fake Ray Ban Wayfarers and the Sony Walkmans...
Jul 13, 2008 Views 717 Interacts 2Current Affairs
A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations
Agha AminThe assassination of Indian Defence Attache in Kabul on 7th July 2008 is a watershed in the ongoing undeclared low intensity war in Afghanistan.
Jul 13, 2008 Views 4318 Interacts 111Current Affairs
Swat: Can the deal work?
zubair torwaliAfter the peace deal between the Taliban and the government people thought that normal life would return to the troubled district of Swat.
Jul 10, 2008 Views 7110 Interacts 246Humor
I Fell Among (the APPNA) Doctors
Aziz AkhmadLike the conductor of a choir, with one hand raised, she piped up with a full-throated ‘Paaak sar zameeen shadbaad … The children simply stared at their toes in embarrassment.
Jul 10, 2008 Views 2446 Interacts 41Current Affairs
A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey
Murtaza Shibli
It (Indian Muslim) happens to be my identity. And this book is about the identity question in large measure - my identity, the Pakistani identities.
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