Articles with tag: NTS

Reforming Religious Fundamentalists

Khalid Sohail Oct 1, 2008 interacts: 103

What would you do with religious fundamentalists, especially those who adopt militant practices, have violent consciousness, and have become involved in armed struggle...

Whose Dog?

Prashant Bhatt Sep 29, 2008 interacts: 2

The way the Sangh Parivar has co-opted the working class and youth militants while serving the interests of the rich and powerful is a phenomenon which has torn India apart.

Pakistani-Americans or American-Pakistanis?

Feroz Qutabshahi Sep 26, 2008 interacts: 184

How long will it before Pakistani-Americans will let their voices be heard as a group?

A Transfer

Prashant Bhatt Sep 10, 2008

His younger son Hasen is studying in Hyderabad, doing first year of engineering while he lives in Tripoli alone. The elder son is doing a job in Lucknow.

Brick Lane is About Immigrants Making Difficult Choices

Ras Siddiqui Aug 3, 2008 interacts: 14

Brick Lane exposes the core of a complex immigrant dilemma. Asians who move to the western world often live with this dilemma and just choose to ignore it.

The Labour Struggle

ameem lutfi Jul 31, 2008 interacts: 1

The current upsurge of labour strikes all over the country has once again brought to the forefront the same rhetoric of 'work harder instead of complaining'.

Yet Another Immigrant Story

Madiha Qureshi Jul 2, 2008 interacts: 71

I arrived in the US about eight months ago, to get married in Houston and move to Maryland, where I live now. My last visit had been less than a year ago, during which I met my husband.

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace

Pervez Hoodbhoy Jul 1, 2008 interacts: 99

The Taliban are waging an armed struggle to remake society. They will keep fighting this war even if America were to miraculously evaporate into space.

Long March

kashkin dabruski Jun 11, 2008 interacts: 43

In thousands, we will march, for change
Hear you will my friends, not far away
The days of change and nights of comfort
Walk with me, as each step gathers its storm

The Emerging Threat

Ayesha Umar May 27, 2008 interacts: 127

According to some people, Mangal Bagh has the full backing of government. If this is true than another Frankenstein is in the making.

Chillchinga, the US Soldier

kashkin dabruski Apr 22, 2008 interacts: 1

The only desire now
To go home
To converse few words
In Spanish as he pays the price
For migration and adventure

Little Pakistan: Brooklynâ€™s Coney Island Avenue

Feroz Qutabshahi Apr 21, 2008 interacts: 209

This article does not discuss racism or race relations. Instead, it hopes to capture how a community has gone through such adversity and is coming back to life, after almost losing it.

Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile

Nadeem F Paracha Feb 28, 2008 interacts: 130

Student politics in Pakistan has had a history of mixed fortunes and shades. Though extremely tumultuous, it is also a history of rich democratic traditions.

Monday Morning Blast in Rawalpindi ... An eyewitness account

Sabahat Vahidy Feb 4, 2008 interacts: 328

This morning marked the first day of classes for the current batch of officers chosen from around the country to take the Unit Command Course. Five of them never signed-in today.

Pakistan's Moment of Democracy?

Zeynab Ali Jan 3, 2008 interacts: 10

Even as many conceded that â€˜Musharraf is not going anywhereâ€™, a response of Pakistanis around the world who seemed beset with an intangible urge to 'do something'.

Muffled Voices on Campuses

Ahsan Raza Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 2

As private universities are abuzz with anti-emergency chants, students of Government College and FC College, Lahore have also adopted ways to express themselves politically.

Go Jamiat Go

Raza Hamdani Nov 20, 2007 interacts: 16

The students have announced loud and clear that they no longer want the Jamiat over their head.

Foreign Factor in our Higher Education

Muhammad FarooqiAzam Nov 18, 2007 interacts: 10

Our whole system of education is working in such a way to produce good high-tech workforce for European and American markets. Irony is we do this at our own expense.

Imran Khan at LUMS

Ammar Rashid Nov 4, 2007 interacts: 145

Amidst speculation of the imposition of emergency in the country by the state, Imran was here to speak about the role of the youth in the countryâ€™s political future.

A Wand or a Yardstick

Emma Alam Sep 16, 2007 interacts: 7

By introducing NTS entry test Pakistan's education system has borrowed a fragment from foreign education system rather taking whole infrastructure, students devoid of analytical approach at elementary and secondary school level cannot solve riddles overn

The Keys

kashkin dabruski Oct 9, 2007 interacts: 1

Invite me back
My home and mountains
Let me remain sane
So I can converse again

Ragging: A Sickness in our Educational System and Society

Rohit Chopra Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 2

Several incidents of ragging have been reported at Indian colleges, some involving acts of brutal violence perpetrated on helpless first year students by groups of senior students.

The Melting Pot

Ejaz Haroon Oct 3, 2007 interacts: 108

We werenâ€™t surprised when we went to the reception and the guests sitting next to us asked us if the groom was Muslim or not.

Pakistani Twist to â€œAliens in Americaâ€ TV Series

Ras Siddiqui Sep 27, 2007 interacts: 58

Are the Pakistani and Muslim community here in America ready for raunchy American teenage humor?

Ramadan Special: Tales of Sufi Wisdom

Asif Naqshbandi Sep 12, 2007 interacts: 287

Since Ramadan is supposed to be a month for bringing dead hearts back to life all the episodes here chosen have the theme of life and death.

Twin Blasts in Rawalpindi leaves 27 dead, 70 injured

Saeed Minhas Sep 4, 2007 interacts: 239

A chilling response to Musharraf's military operation in tribal areas

The Indian American

sreelata menon Jun 5, 2007 interacts: 3

A mixed up amalgam of diluted Indian traditions and strong western ideas, the Indian American appears to be a rootless, yet confident, brown entity aspiring to be something it is naturally not.

The Invisible Men

ahmad hayat Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 42

In fact GORA is soooooo cool that it really doesn’t bother him if we have achieved a seam-less integration or we are trying to preserve our identity. GORA lives on a social, mental and philosophical so elevated and hence so detached from ours that

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 Tank (NWFP) is evidence of a real, escalating and dangerous movement within the ranks of the religious righ

A Nation Reborn

Shaheryar Akbar Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 71

Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians and generals, they responded! They awoke! They said in one voice, “enough is enough!” I have ne

Pakistan Quarters

Muhammad Tariq Mar 4, 2007 interacts: 24

The name probably symbolized the fact that it gave shelter to the families of most of the government servants, keeping the administration of the newly formed nation running, Karachi being the capital then.

The Fall

Zahra Romana Jan 8, 2007 interacts: 14

I used to have such a round full face as a child. Plump red cheeks, the sort of face that aunties kiss and uncles pinch. So why is it that in every picture I see of myself I am frowning deeply, so very serious?

Meeting the Pakistani-Swiss

Wasiq N Khan Oct 27, 2006 interacts: 145

By a Burger King, I saw a group of Eastern European men playing chess with giant wooden pieces. Next to them, was a clique of South Asian men in their forties and fifties smoking cigarrettes and talking animatedly in Punjabi.

Aussie Values: Save us the embarrassement!

Saeed Khan Oct 11, 2006 interacts: 40

The call for Australian values is quite xenophobic at its core. It is just another dig at reviving Hansonism by making an issue out of ethnicity.

Abnormal Norms

Salman Siddiqui Sep 3, 2006 interacts: 3

With persistent awful conditions of our roads that are filled with bumps all year round, and now thanks to the recent monsoon rains, many pot holes as well, the risks of having an accident today are even greater; more so for motorcycle owners.

Minorities in the Western Societies

Nasim Hassan Aug 20, 2006 interacts: 13

Certain basic steps that must be taken by the immigrants as well as the host countries to affect peaceful and harmonious integration.

Duality of our Lives: US Vs. Pakistan

Rizwana Khan Aug 10, 2006 interacts: 27

Enticing visions of a studio apartment, Ikea shelves, weaved baskets, plastic trendy colored organizers and routine breaks to Starbucks Café for a shot of espresso creates a perfect harmony in my daughter’s life.

Morally Disadvantaged?

Z Rana Jul 25, 2006 interacts: 1

Are emigrants really 'morally disadvantaged'? Are they actually the turncoats and hedonists they are made out to be? Do they have to play games to placate people back home? It depends who you ask.

American Ambivalence on National Language

Mohammad Gill Jun 24, 2006 interacts: 12

The American nation consists of immigrants from diverse countries. For fear of imposing any specific language and the associated culture on the diversity of the American population, the question of a national language is left in limbo

Jolly Bhai

syed muzammil Jun 13, 2006 interacts: 70

We were a group of six international students in our first summer in U.S.A, hoping to collect the colossal sum we needed for next semester’s tuition, and best way to accomplish the task, we were told, was to drive cabs in the city of Chicago.

Children of Guest Workers

Rezwan Bajwa Nov 19, 2005 interacts: 14

There exists a strong resentment amongst the immigrant youth against the German system; I see a highly polarised society

Nostalgia, Inc.

Zia Ahmed Nov 10, 2005 interacts: 6

Jaipur: where thakurs can get you bumped off for a variety of reasons.

South Asians in the USA

Nasim Hassan Oct 26, 2005 interacts: 14

It is obvious that South Asians will leave a mark on the America. But what would be their contribution to the patchwork of American cultural landscape?

Immigrants: Na Idhar ke, Na uddhar ke

Batool Ali Oct 5, 2005 interacts: 81

I moved to Canada four years ago - at the time, we - my spouse and I - were determined to 'make a life' in Toronto or live there permanently. However circumstances and family obligations impelled us to move back to Pakistan eventually.

Karachi Odyssey II

Temporal Aug 14, 2005 interacts: 14

those fishermen were true
to their sea
these days it helps not
being true

Changing Muslim Hearts

Anne Shamim Jul 31, 2005 interacts: 57

'It sucks to be Muslim.' Those were the words uttered by my 15-year-old son as we sat glued to the TV, watching coverage of the unspeakable crime that had been committed against humanity a few days before on 9/11.

Dear Allah

Temporal Jul 22, 2005 interacts: 53

could you tell mrs. schmidt to please draw the blinds?...and don’t tell me not to look...you created me, i am what i am…you should know!

Education: An Abysmal Situation

Yahya Noori May 25, 2005 interacts: 25

The sons and daughters of the most privileged class study in Cambridge system, the less privileged ones, in private schools and appear under metric system of examination; the poor, in so called “yellow schools” with ghost teachers.

The SAT Scam

Maliha Aqueel May 19, 2005 interacts: 13

Cheating is going on in the SAT.. and everyone seems blind to it.

The Easy Path to Publication is paved with Your Dollars

Hafsa Ahsan Mar 30, 2005 interacts: 4

The phrase refers more specifically to the working of those organizations which claim to promote writers/poets and their work, yet in reality, their sole function is to extract money from them in the name of contests, services or anthologies.

Rolling Stones

Humeira Ajaz Mar 16, 2005 interacts: 30

She had the loudest cry I ever heard. And she was perfect. My husband and I were ecstatic, and we wanted to hug and kiss the whole world. Unfortunately, there was not even a single person we could call on to share the joy of this miracle. It was only our

Children of Dictatorship

Afiya Shehrbano Feb 10, 2005 interacts: 44

I have always referred to my contemporaries as Zia’s children... We were socialised in a culture of sectarian and communal hate, drugs, guns, Pajeros, and with a false consciousness based only on abstinence. Not much has changed in this generation o

States of Matter

Fakhra Hassan Dec 17, 2004 interacts: 3

I find myself there
in the wake of
needs and wants

Dance of the Seasons / American Amavasya

N Bajpai Dec 7, 2004 interacts: 28

Diya dances light
From jack-o-lantern
On our American
Amavasya

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Saman Jafri Oct 3, 2004 interacts: 6

With a magnifying glass in one hand and the other holding my palm, he told me that I would be traveling very shortly.

The Responsibility of Students

Nima Shirali Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 15

I started my university studies with the expectation of elevating my level of academic understanding. I was of the notion that I would be entering a “sanctuary for free thought”. Yet, the notion of this “sanctuary” was violently br

Teachers and the Impact they have on Students

Hafsa Ahsan Sep 9, 2004 interacts: 8

Each student will not have the same potential. Each will be challenged in some way. It is up to me, as a teacher, to find the 'key' that unlocks each child’s ability to maximize his full potential and inspires him to learn.

Twilight of a Passionate Love Affair

Umair Raja Aug 9, 2004 interacts: 124

O Canada!...Our home and native land!...True patriot love in all thy sons command……

What’s the Taj Mahal like from the inside? And Other Stories

Rohit De Jul 18, 2004 interacts: 67

Despite coming all the way from Bangalore to Lahore to debate, all six of us at the hall that morning were nervous at the thought of being cross examined by 40 schoolgirls

The Summer of 2001…

Aman Malik Jun 24, 2004 interacts: 8

“If any of you cannot bear being ragged,” he said, “you might go to Hindu College (across the road from Stephen’s); if you are unable to face that even, then my boys you may take admission in Miranda House (the only college that al

Problems with Co-Education

Hafsa Ahsan Jun 5, 2004 interacts: 32

Many feminist movements have started an active campaign to get single-sex schools established in large numbers.

One Roof, Two Worlds

Karamatullah K Ghori May 1, 2004 interacts: 2

New immigrants, they say, carry a lot of old baggage. Well, not in the literal sense but metaphorically.

Spam, Popup Blockers and Britney Spears

Irfan HAMID Mar 4, 2004 interacts: 10

That cheap website has enough money to advertise prominently on one of the geek-world’s major websites. And trust me, geek websites are expensive to advertise at, because geeks have major buying power (usually also in corporate capacities). Therefor