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Posts Tagged ‘Cuba’

Targeting Cuba in Pakistan

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Feb 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Sometimes events and issues that arise, may seem purely coincidental, but on closer scrutiny actually have a definitive pattern and purpose. And so it has been with the issue of Pakistani students being sent to Cuba for medical degrees - all paid for by the Cuban government. This arrangement, a major boon for the average [...]



Aftermatch Calamity

By Shamsuddin Hunzai • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Natural disasters have been an adherent phenomenon of creatures on earth in different forms like land sliding, earthquake, flooding and break out of infectious diseases. With repid development in the field of science and technology has made partially cabled many developed societies to adopt disaster prevention measures to escape danger. Despite, overwhelming development in European [...]



How many times will we be fooled by the US?

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Apr 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

So Senator Kerry has come to do the usual doublespeak to the Pakistani people through its already confused leadership! Like the other US leaders before him, his understanding of Pakistan ran skin deep at best as he tried to justify the drones by declaring that terrorism existed in Pakistan before these attacks. Oh what a [...]



My Right to protest

By Tazeen Javed • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A lot of my Pakistani brethren have a deep affection for all things Iran in general, and Mr Mahmoud Ahmedinijad in particular. As someone who has traveled extensively in Iran and quite liked the country I have to relent that it is not an egalitarian utopia that a lot of Pakistanis believe it to be. [...]



How a Cuban Embraced Islam

By Ghazala Khan • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

“Are there many Muslims in Cuba?”
“Why would a Cuban want to become a Muslim?” These are the two questions I am most frequently asked when introducing myself, or in the case of old friends re-introduce, by my Muslim name, Assad Jibril Pino. The answer to the first query is a simple yes. Several [...]



‘AMERICA’ IS SOMETHING MORE THAN USA

By The Pakistani Spectator • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

By Carlos Alfonso Rojas Valdiri:
From the point of view of the Latin American people, it has been (and it is) a very misleading and abusive habit of the political, journalistic and academic circles of the United States of America (USA) and -by their influence- others, to call (name) that country ‘America’, and ‘Americans’ its citizens, [...]



We Give Musharraf as Replacement of Fidel Castro to Cuba

By Amna Gilani • Feb 19th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

So after all these years Fidel Castro of Cuba has decided to step down, why don’t Cuba takes our Musharraf as a replacement for their departing leader? I mean he would be really useful to them in the situation when they need foreign aid and they need the friendship of United States.
While we are at [...]



The problem of irregular warfare

By revo • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The prospects for disarmament or for formal restrictions on war have become increasingly complicated by the development of irregular warfare in different forms throughout the world—guerrilla fighting, [...]