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Posts Tagged ‘India’

Poverty is Blessing: Some times

By A Khokar • Jan 3rd, 2012 • Category: Features

Pakistan and India may be known for the poverty stricken masses deprived of basic civic amentias or equal job opportunities but owing to the current economic disasters and recession engulfing the West; the state of affairs of the masses out there is also not very different especially in US, the land once famously known for [...]



Indian Children Suffer: Where is India Shining?

By Sidrah Zaheer • Jan 1st, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

India has almost one third of the global underweight and stunted children under the age of 5. This fact also translates into the reality that a child under 5 is almost twice as likely to be chronically underweight in India as in sub-Saharan Africa. According to UNICEF, about 47 per cent of the Indian children [...]



India says No to army chief plea for DoB change

By A Khokar • Dec 31st, 2011 • Category: Politics

India looks set to get a new army chief in the New Year. The defence ministry has rejected army chief Gen VK Singh’s statutory complaint to change his date of birth (DoB) from May 10, 1950 to May 10, 1951. Under the circumstances, Singh will retire in May on turning 62.
What a country; where even [...]



A Long walk back home

By A Khokar • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: Features

Like Qaid e Azam M A Jinnah as founding father of Pakistan, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an Ottoman and Turkish army officer is the founding father of modern Turkey. As a revolutionary founder of Republic of Turkey he after defeating the allied forces gained remarkable successes in military campaigns to secure independence for Turkey. [...]



Australian Yellowcake to Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Dec 6th, 2011 • Category: Politics

Injustices like this really create the frustration and deprivation in countries like Pakistan. Both India and Pakistan are declared and explicit nuclear power, but the world lobby always give undue advantages to India and always ignore Pakistan.
Australia has also followed that footstep and regrettably preferred India for its Uranium.
Labour Party yesterday voted to overturn [...]



Veena Malik’s Picture Morphed

By Mohammad Yusha • Dec 4th, 2011 • Category: Entertainment

Social networking websites are abuzz following the picture of Veena Malik in India’s FHM magazine. The magazine’s editor says that he has the video to prove that the picture is real. I wonder why he doesn’t show the video. This is what Veena Malik has to say.
I have never posed nu*e. I have never done [...]



Memogate of Mansoor Ijaz and lessons for Indians

By captainjohann • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: Politics

I am putting my personal thoughts on the Memogate which has rocked Pakistan and sharing here as it has lessons for Indians and others in third world countries.
A Memo purported to be written by Mr.Mansoor Ijaz on the instructions of Pakistan’s Ambassador to USA and delivered to General Mullen has already claimed the [...]



Trade Between India and Pakistan

By Umer Toor • Nov 13th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Lots of hue and cry was made by the right-wingers when the late two time Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir  Bhutto extended the friendship hands toward India, and India also responded in fair manner.
The army became hostile, right wingers started exuding flames from their nostrils. opposition parties in which Mian Nawaz Sharif was leading declared [...]



Euroasian Union and Pakistan

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Nov 8th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

While we are at it, why not just become little bit more innovative and flexible and forge new ties with other regional powers, and Russia comes first there. Yes we fought a war in Afghanistan, but that was it, and we have got to move forward, and establish a trust relationship there too.
Our some people [...]



Favoring India Should Be Welcomed

By Zeenat Rehman • Nov 5th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

If you spare me the emotional and sentimental hogwash and read the article before bashing me and declaring me a traitor then it would be great for a change. But I know there are some who would hate to accept the logic and would keep on singing the old hate songs.
India is our neighbor and [...]