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Posts Tagged ‘Malaysia’

Does Reason Rule the Mind?

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Apr 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

I recall it from one of the lectures  of my professors during my Master’s days in Political Science at the University of Peshawar in 1976  with its importance for the decision makers that  “peace rules the day where reason rules the mind”..   He familiarized  the term  about a topic of good governance in  Western political [...]



Empire For Fantasists

By Prof. Michael Brenner • Apr 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

For the past 7 years, the United States has been battling to establish global hegemony.  The project’s ignominious failings expose its brittle foundations and flawed design.  Yet, there is an odd silence as the audacious enterprise comes to grief on every front.  Americans who, for the most part, had no idea what they were getting [...]



Zaroorat-e-Leader

By Mushtaq Ahmad • Dec 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


That’s The Way, Mahi Way

By Fatima Tassaduq • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Social Democratic Ritt Bjerregaard was the Mayor of Copenhagen and one of the luminary  female ministers. Once she went to Paris to participate in an international conference in her official capacity and resided in a hotel nearby the conference hall, instead of the embassy. She paid the bills of the hotels from her officially allocated [...]



Bring a can of petrol!!

By captainjohann • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The price of petrol in India have already gone through the roof. Reason?
Global oil prices are at all-time high levels (about $139 per barrel) and
the nation’s public sector oil companies can no longer sustain the heavy
subsidy on petroleum products.
So which are the nations where the price of petrol is [...]



Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Malaysian Blogger Charged

By Gul Raiz • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Misc

A Malaysian blogger was charged on Tuesday with sedition over an article he wrote linking a top government leader and his wife to the gruesome killing of a Mongolian woman.
Raja Petra Kamaruddin, founder and editor of the popular Malaysia Today site, had posted an article which allegedly implicated Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his [...]