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Articles with tag: occupation

Gen. Petraeus & Crocker's Washington Show is a Damp Squib

Gajendra Singh   Apr 17, 2008   interacts: 7

If an act of mercy is twice blessed, then an act of illegal invasion and brutal occupation has since proved to be doubly cursed for the invaders as well.

The Olive Trees

storyteller    May 21, 2004   interacts: 17

On our way to Khan Yunus we had seen thousands and thousands of trees that had been cut down. Olive trees. The trees of peace.

The Razor’s Edge

Feroz R Khan   Jul 7, 2003   interacts: 111

The United States seems to be losing the proverbial battle for the “hearts and minds” of the Afghans. The biggest problem was that the United States was not prepared for the post-war situation and had no plans to tackle the problems

Terror in Okara

Pervez Hoodbhoy   May 23, 2003   interacts: 53

Pakistan cannot bear the shock of nearly a million of its own people being dispossessed

Doctors or the Disease

Abrar Akbar   Apr 22, 2003   interacts: 38

Analysis of the khaki-clad messiahs of Pakistan

Open Letter to Those Opposing the Iraq War

Tauheed Ahmed   Mar 29, 2003   interacts: 164

And the truth shall prevail. Whether someone likes it or not.

Three Arguments Against a War

Umair Raja   Mar 11, 2003   interacts: 32

As America prepares for war, I want to present three arguments for peace:

A Work In Progress

Feroz R Khan   Jan 6, 2003   interacts: 95

Jinnah put Pakistan in such a location that the future state would always be involved in the geo-politics of world

Sobho: the struggle continues

Beena Sarwar   Oct 16, 2002   interacts: 15

I still believe in the revolution, in a society that provides justice for all

Unraveling Pakistan: Taming The Shrew-Mare

Temporal    Oct 9, 2002   interacts: 46

Pakistan’s Army has become a wild mare. It has to be broken into. It has to be re-taught to walk, run, trot

Organized Irrelevance

Haroon Moghul   Sep 4, 2002   interacts: 41

Are Muslims hopeless? With the OIC, they are...

Drawing Palestine

Rehan Ansari   May 12, 2002   interacts: 46

what can happen to someone who thinks he has all the power

The Clash Of Un-Civilizations And Osama-ism

Urstruly    Nov 30, 2001   interacts: 481

It is misleading to think and give an impression that these issues will just disappear if Osama is captured or killed today.

Bahr-e-Zulmaat

Rehan Ansari   Sep 19, 2001   interacts: 158

a mother who wears the hijab suggested to her 28-year-old daughter she take it off

Implications for India

SSS    Sep 15, 2001   interacts: 128

India needs to show maturity

Talking to Vajpayee

Mushahid Hussain   Jun 18, 2001   interacts: 371

Vajpayee has demonstrated that he can be different

When Pakistan Defeated Herself...

Crypto    Jun 5, 2000   interacts: 76

there was no way for it [India] to convincingly prove that Pakistan indeed harbored territorial ambitions on i-Kashmir

Different Eagles, Same Genus

Feroz R Khan   Apr 12, 2000   interacts: 232

For the Indian war planners, the Pakistan Air Force is their worst fear...

Time for a fresh start

Ibne Sina   Oct 13, 1999   interacts: 54

Where do we go from here?

Save India

Veer Kumar   Jul 27, 1999   interacts: 52

A martial law administration has to take over the country

India’s Failure of Imagination

Rohan Oberoi   Jul 2, 1999   interacts: 62

No one in India, it seems, has a clue what people across the border in Pakistan are thinking

A Line Runs Through It

Feroz R Khan   Jan 1, 1999   interacts: 68

Siachen-Kargil: India, Pakistan, Kashmir and forgotton lessons of history

Pride and Potatoes: Trade with India

M A Syed   Oct 6, 1998   interacts: 11

Is importing Potatoes a source of pride?

Brown Man’s Burden

Amar D Dhindsa   May 2, 1998   interacts: 14

I remember my English teacher sneering at students for not understanding what they were teaching, attributing our faults to lack of breeding

UN Sanctions Against Iraq: 10 Myths

Elias Davidson and Nadeem Khan    Feb 12, 1998   interacts: 4

Economic sanctions against industrialized countries, which include a ban on foreign trade, can be more lethal than limited military attacks.

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