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The biggest pain in Asia isn’t the country you’d think

By Isha Khan • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Think for a moment about which countries cause the most global consternation. Afghanistan. Iran. Venezuela. North Korea. Pakistan. Perhaps rising China. But India? Surely not. In the popular imagination, the world’s largest democracy evokes Gandhi, Bollywood, and chicken tikka. In reality, however, it’s India that often gives global governance the biggest headache.
Of course, India gets [...]



UK Visa for Pakistani Students, Job Seekers and Tourists

By Fatima Tassaduq • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Visas to United Kingdom for the Pakistanis are now issued from the Abu Dhabi. That’s a huge hassle and huge trouble for the Pakistanis. To add insult to injury, there is a huge delay in visa processing, and that generates extreme loss to many.
Thankfully, Lord Ahmed raised this issue in front of UK government: “How [...]



Crisis of Nationhood

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In 1947 a nation was looking for a country, today the country is looking for a nation.  The concept of nationhood which serves as an important pillar in the development of  countries has unfortunately been withered with time.   Pakistan is one of the countries having been faced with the crisis of identity.  Having been emerged [...]



The Fresh Air Fund

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 5th, 2009 • Category: Misc

THE FRESH AIR FUND, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children [...]



Progress

By M Mirza • Apr 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Obama’s Surge in Pakistan/An Indian looks at the Opium trade

By captainjohann • Feb 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As America is retreating( so called surge is basically asking for fig leaf before the exit as in Iraq) , there is tremendous amount of churning going on in Afghanistan. This was evident to everyone for sometime .When President Karzai desperately wanted Mullah Omar to accept his offer of safe passage was the first sign [...]



Taassub, Nasal Parasti, Ya Moeen Ka Doosra

By M Mirza • Jun 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Muballigh at Twitter

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Just came to know about this Twitter based service
http://twitter.com/muballigh
In case you are not aware about Twitter: Wikipedia
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, [...]