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Fatima Jinnah Park – Metaphor for Pakistan's Problems and their Solution
Q Isa Daudpota Sep 7, 2007Capital Development Authority (CDA) has carved out a large corner (6000 sq yards) of the Fatima Jinnah Park for McDonald's at a ridiculously low rental
Why Doxiadis Cries for Islamabad
Q Isa Daudpota Aug 8, 2007A planned capital sinks through the neglect of its basic infrastructure at the cost of new wasteful projects
Smile, for the camera?
Tan Sar Jul 19, 2007One day, years later when the event itself is forgotten and the photo somehow emerges, they will laugh at what they believe to be a real moment.
Our Tolerance of Comical Illusions
Faris Kasim Apr 5, 2007The 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
Marine Drive Makeover
Vidyadhar Date Apr 2, 2007Marine Drive is Mumbai’s best known landmark. It has its own natural beauty. That is why there is need to pause and ask whether it is necessary to spend crores of rupees to dress it up further.
What is it going to take to have a Clean Bombay?
Ajay Kamalakaran Mar 6, 2007If we are to ever look civilized in the eyes of the world, it has to start with ensuring that our major cities are clean.
Karachi: The Descent Into Alienation
Xari Jalil Mar 6, 2007Surprisingly as many would think, the people of Karachi have not shown themselves to be suffering from mass paranoia, even after this newest series of suicide bombings in the past few years.
Adam Khor Ayash Gorillay
Syed Shah Jan 26, 2007Is everyone these days tripping over themselves to conform to this stereotype of being hip?
Darakhat Bachao, Lahore Bachao
Ahmed R Alam Jun 29, 2006The Citizens of Lahore are now planning a conference in which stakeholders shall be allowed to voice their concerns about the development of the city.
Gods of War
Irfan HAMID Jun 5, 2006With atrocity upon atrocity piling up in the US war against terror, one has to wonder if the world’s most self-righteous nation will ever have the courage to be morally righteous or not.
Urban India -- The NRI Viewpoint
Rakesh Mani Jan 3, 2006Perhaps this wave of westernization and erosion of culture and values is limited to a few, a solitary blond hair follicle in a jet black mane?
Invisible Immigrations, Furtive Bleedings
Harish Nambiar Nov 13, 2005Unfortunately, the ghetto is moving into the city. The city is bleeding into the ghetto...Destinies are converging constantly and very swiftly in the globalised and globalizing world.
Fleshened Bones
Farzana Versey Aug 8, 2005It was always love for me. Let me hold you in my arms, Sister, mother, fellow bitch, I won’t applaud you for your spirit
Project Mumbai Makeover: Casualties of Development
Shivali Tukdeo Jul 11, 2005Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra (India) was recently in the US, marketing and showcasing Maharashtra for possible investors.
Implications of Iraqi Instability
S F Hasnat May 31, 2005In the presence of 138,000 American troops, the first seventeen days of May witnessed 21 car bombings in Baghdad, while there were a total of 25 in all of the year of 2004.
The Long Shadows of Hindu Kush
Nazar Khan May 4, 2005What is finally left behind is a mosaic of different ethnicities - Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Baluch and Punjabi speaking Sikhs and Hindus and the mixing of some Arab and Mongol blood.
More on the Price of Love
Beena Sarwar Feb 10, 2005They hailed from different ethnic communities, lived in different cities, and their family backgrounds were entirely different. But they met, became friends, and wanted to marry.
The world of the Wise Lord
Nazar Khan Feb 8, 2005The other ancient philosophy emanated from Zoroastrianism which explained that a man’s life is a struggle between the good and the evil. Its monotheistic concept included a satan, a messiah, death, resurrection, day of judgment, heaven and hell.
Refugee for Life?
Syed Ali Aug 17, 2004In any case, no failure will stop me to state that I am not a Muhajir or a refugee. This is my land as much as any one else born on it.
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