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 [...]
US president Barack Obama’s predicament (on hearing about Nobel Peace Prize) seems similar to that of a dashing man who comes face-to-face with a fawning socialite in public who gushes: “Darling I love you from the bottom of my heart.” The media is having a field day revelling in this hot/sexy topic that has landed [...]
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Prison, the name immediately conjures up images of infamous ones in yesteryears like Bastille, Alcatraz, Newgate, San Quentin and the Devil’s Island. Today we have our share of Guantanamo Bay, Pul Chakri and Abu Ghraibs.
The right to [...]
(The United States has toughened its stance on a proposed agreement with the militants, saying that any deal Pakistan reaches with them should be “worth more than the paper it is written on” (Dawn). They are also saying the militancy has increase in Afghanistan due to it)
Pasting news above is just to recall the American [...]
