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Are we making a fair Judgment?

By Razwan Khan • Mar 8th, 2012 • Category: Lead Story, Politics, Worth A Second Look

A couple of regrettable incidents during the last few weeks seem to have overshadowed the good work done by U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The video depicting U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban corpses and the unintentional burning of the Holy Koran have prompted an understandable anger from the people of the Af-Pak region. The [...]



Getting Back to the Basics

By Razwan Khan • Dec 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics

As the year draws to an end, U.S - Pak relations are at a crucial state.  Nobody denies that the tragic Salala incident has put a damper on our combined efforts to bring about a terror free world.  With the coming of the New Year, we should focus on the work at hand.  We should [...]



Unsung Heroes!

By Razwan Khan • Nov 3rd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The Taliban threat continues to spread like a virus, and thousands of deaths can be attributed to their atrocities. The latest trend on their end has been to go after those who are willing to take a stand against their hatred and evil ideology. Many of us might take comfort in knowing that as long [...]



US and Pakistan: One way road

By Razwan Khan • Oct 2nd, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the last few weeks, not a day goes by when every single detail of a statement from Islamabad or Washington, D.C., is scrutinized under a microscope and facts are deliberately taken out of context, which seems to have the sole purpose of creating a rift between Pakistan and the US. Conspiracy theories attempt to [...]



Flood Relief Efforts

By Razwan Khan • Dec 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

As the first drops of monsoon rain fell on his court yard in his ancestral village that lays on the outskirts of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw province of Pakistan, Dr. Ahmed, a resident of Kent, Washington was packing and getting ready to get back home with his family after attending a family wedding and visiting [...]



A child dreams of education… burnt to ashes by Taliban

By Razwan Khan • Oct 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Not a day that some body won’t die from the bullets, bombs and mines of Taliban and their terrorist partners. As we see on daily basis mosques are blown up while Muslims are attending congregational prayers many who die and are wounded among these are children, youths and elderly people. Likewise people are blown up [...]



FC Commandant killed in Peshawar blast

By Razwan Khan • Aug 6th, 2010 • Category: Features

It is sad when the Pakistani Nation is in the midst of the worst flooding in 80 years.  The ruthless killers called, Taliban, have killed another defender of the Pakistani people FC Commandant Sifwat Ghayur.  Azam Tariq, the Taliban spokesperson proudly claimed yet this responsibility of the terror attack which killed five people.  These heartless [...]