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Articles with tag: Zen

I, Samurai

Sahir Shah   Apr 22, 2008   interacts: 6

my finger twitch
my neck hair rise
my throbbing pulse
my blistered foot
I'm full of life

The Roving Stones

Haroon Malik   Nov 3, 2007   interacts: 5

My lords have announced they will cause revolutionary changes, changes that will cause a grass root level change. But how could they?

India's first Citizen Journalists Meet held in New Delhi

Abhishek Behl   Aug 20, 2007   interacts: 1

Citizen journalists participating in the meet shared their views and ideas to take the country ahead into the next 60 years of independence.

The Silent Majority Speaks

imran ahmad   Jun 5, 2007   interacts: 58

I have not yet seen or heard that an excellent bank manager, an efficient medical doctor or the most qualified air steward has been made a Corp Commander or an Air Marshall. I have however see many armed force officers in positions where they are not supp

Our Tolerance of Comical Illusions

Faris Kasim   Apr 5, 2007   interacts: 7

The only superpower in the world claims that it is fulfilling its majority’s wishes but does exactly the opposite. A third-world plutocratic state wishes to better its citizens living standard by investing in a policy that benefits only a privileged

Violation of Civilians by the Army in Pakistan

mohammad shoukat   Apr 5, 2007   interacts: 27

How the army controlled security abused my mother and my brother in front of the whole world.

Get over the Victim Syndrome

Ahmer Muzammil   Jan 26, 2007   interacts: 236

The real issues that affect our daily lives are never addressed by opposition or the government, instead we are enamored with non-issues like huddod ordinance, attire of mushy, Kashmir, women’s face on hoardings, music in public buses and other crap

A Requiem for the Victims of 7/11

M B Qasmi   Aug 7, 2006   interacts: 5

As individuals we suffer and grieve and perhaps throw a few crumbs through a charitable organization for the victims or sometimes even offer our blood, but as a society we create conditions through our silence when it becomes a sin to remain mere spectato

Citizenship Rights for a Better Future

Bilal Ahmad   Jul 10, 1999   interacts: 38

The autocracy established in colonial India is alive and well in contemporary Pakistan

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