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Dawn News:global Pakistani channel?

By Dil Nawaz • Sep 8th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Viva  Hameed Haroon; Yes We Can!
Bradistan Calling
What have a Euro-Zone bureaucracy and the countries as diverse as Japan, India, UK, Russia, Iran, Germany, France, USA, Qatar and China, got in common? Are they part of an energy cartel or a group of twenty biggest economies? Highly unlikely: given the diversity of the list.
The question becomes [...]



Pakistan@62:The future is bright

By Dil Nawaz • Aug 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

For once I left my intellectual hat at home and donned the green flag to go on the street and celebrate with the Bradistan boyz and girlz, not that I consider myself a “flag waving nationalist”. My loyalties might be a bit shaky but I would never dream of waving a tricolour of Republic of [...]



Bradistan: The future of Sikh-Muslim relations

By Dil Nawaz • Aug 8th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The Sikh religion is based on three important pillar The Guru (Teacher), The Garanth(Holy Book) and the Khalsa (Brotherhood of the Pure).It all seems so familiar because of similarity with the religion of Islam. Nowadays one cannot objectively analyse Islam, without provoking Fatwa of One kind or the other. The debate, discussion and Ijtehad (innovation [...]



Rakhi Sawant Wedding:Reality Show or Farce?

By Dil Nawaz • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Indian TV has seen numerous Bollywood reality shows, competition where common boys (and occasionally girls) have won places on movies by top directors. The Show that I want to talk about is Bollywood, blind-date and arranged (and staged) marriage all rolled into one big media circus.
The prize is the hand in marriage of a top [...]



Pak-Iran Friendship Forum

By Dil Nawaz • Jul 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It is an interesting time on the young street of Iran. Youth are expecting a victory against the clergy. The Prague spring is in the air. The cities are green in the colour of change proposed by reformist candidate Mir Hussain Mousuvi. How far this HOPE and CHANGE can go, only time will tell?
PIPFPD: Pakistan [...]



Obama,T20 Worldcup and Jamaat Islami

By Dil Nawaz • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It was a long afternoon, with cricket T20 World cup in the background, and the location was a Lebanese restaurant in St.  John’s wood, in the shadow of Lords cricket ground in central London and we were enjoying a long outdoor meal.
My guest was a childhood friend (alumni of  “Physics under Hoodbhoy”  and Islami Jamiat Talba), now [...]



Kashmir Broadcasting Corporation

By Dil Nawaz • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Stop Press:KBC
Kashmir Broadcasting Corporation is live on air as of 10th of June 2009 thru its satellite transmissions globally after one year of success broadcasting. KBC survived despite lack of financial backing for independent TV in a climate of global recession.
Viewers and supporters can contact
KBC Europe
Phone:00441613626614
Website:
http://jammukashmir.tv/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=3&task=videodirectlink&id=501
Is another (Secular and Independent) Kashmir possible?
The Free Media and [...]



THE BRADISTAN MELA

By Dil Nawaz • May 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

(courtesy Daily Times - this article was first published.Sir Cam was the Guest columnist for Bradistan from Mela 2003  Dil Nawaz’s comments and updates for2008 will appear within brackets 2009 Mela will be held on the 2nd weekend of June)
Here in was a mighty fusion of cultures: Eastern, Western, English, Pakistani, Indian, African, Arab and [...]



Bradistan (Mini-Pakistan)’s diversity, ray of hope?

By Dil Nawaz • May 20th, 2009 • Category: Misc

A nation’s power and might is not in its Tanks and missiles but in its intellectual capability, knowledge, innovation, creativity and through its respect of human rights and freedom of expression.
The talk of doom and gloom in Pakistan, after a flurry of bad news on economic front and the terrorist attacks, has created doubts in [...]



Bradistan: Rock Music & White Gold Burger

By Dil Nawaz • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Social Justice and The  “White Gold Burger”

A Song by British Pakistani Rock Musician Propa-Gandi 
 http://www.fun-da-mental.co.uk/
 

Be Afraid, be very very afraid of future and progress. I talked about a Template of Terrorism being copycat all over the world with franchises available with little investment. But there is terrorism greater than physical terror, its called psychological warfare.
Integration, immigration, terrorism, alienation, [...]