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Articles with tag: security

India’s Nuclear Fizzle

Pervez Hoodbhoy   Sep 3, 2009   interacts: 350

Suspicion has now turned into confirmed fact: India’s hydrogen bomb test of May 1998 was not the fantastic success it was claimed to be.

It's Yet Another Pakistani Nuclear Anniversary Today

Pervez Hoodbhoy   May 29, 2009   interacts: 476

People of North Korea gained nothing from their country’s nuclearisation. But they cannot challenge their oppressors. But, we Pakistanis — who are far freer — must ask: what have we gained from the bomb?

Swat Calls For Civil Society to Act

Zubair Torwali   Jan 7, 2009   interacts: 135

Government writ is a faded vision; elected councilors and Nazims are killed, women no more allowed to visit bazaars; markets are deserted, police stations vacated.

No Short Cuts to End Terrorism

Murad A Baig   Dec 9, 2008   interacts: 42

There was such a huge feeling of outrage against the lapses of the intelligence and security services, the custodians of law as well as all the politicians and officials.

Pakistan's Nuclear Test - Ten Years Later

Pervez Hoodbhoy   May 28, 2008   interacts: 509

Today we are at war on multiple fronts. But the Bomb provides no defense. Rather, it has helped bring us to this grievously troubled situation and offers no way out.

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.

A pragmatic rant about Immigration in America

fawad butt   Dec 5, 2006   interacts: 4

A pragmatic rant about Immigration in America

Industrial Food

Saima Shah   Oct 2, 2006   interacts: 39

Industrial Food is not just about food production, but also about globalization. Multinational corporations affect food production all over the world. Food has been contaminated all over the world with synthetic chemicals

Elections and Security Certificates…Rhetorically Speaking

Shahid Mahmood   Jan 21, 2006   interacts: 5

Sarmite Bulte is asking for my vote when Canada goes to the polls on January 23 so that she can “continue to work on your behalf'. These past couple of years has seen no indication of her “working for me”. Voters need to move beyond part

Laddo Ki Shadi

Ammara Ahmad   Dec 7, 2005   interacts: 11

She would bluntly reply to the question, “ Will you keep me instead of my sister?” This was obscene when said to males, but not that she cared

To sue or not to sue…

Shahid Mahmood   Jul 4, 2005   interacts: 3

It has been a year since I was not allowed to board an Air Canada flight (AC-8087). I have had the case covered in the media and on Parliament Hill but to no avail.

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