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Washington summit on nuclear security

By Afshain Afzal • Apr 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Attacks on Iranian nuclear and missile site seem impossible because at this juncture if the west makes a mistake to attack Iran the whole Muslim world would be united. In case of attack on Iran, the spade work carried out by anti-Islam forces since 17 century to divide the Muslims on sectarian lines would vanish [...]



Turkey’s recognition of Israel has a message for Pakistan

By Shaukat M Malik CPA • Apr 13th, 2010 • Category: Features

People of all faiths have fought each other in the past but that does not mean that animosity must survive in perpetuity. This is madness. Jews and Muslims have been victimized in Europe by Christians of the Inquisition era but that has not stopped Jews and Christians from building bridges [...]



Sharia laws have become a weapon

By Shaukat M Malik CPA • Jan 22nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

We cannot name one country with Islamic laws that is a functioning democracy or a benchmark for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness except Turkey.
Muslim majority countries such as Pakistan have a history of thousands of years of customs and folklore shared with India that already plays havoc with the largely uneducated population in [...]



Erdogan: A leadership Model

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The visit of the Prime Minister of Turkey Tayyib Erdogan  to Pakistan at the moment when the waves of terrorism has threatened us  is of significant importance and honor for us.   Being the head of the government of a nation-state with whom Pakistan has an endurable bilateralism with unlimited ties of  friendship and cooperation is [...]



What are Rental Power Plants

By Guest Blogger • Aug 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In Pakistan, you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t. Not always, but more often than not. There is massive power loadshedding across the country, factories and plants are closing down, manufacturing businesses and exports are down, unemployment and poverty is increasing, there are riots on the streets, trains and [...]



New Provinces in Pakistan

By Salman Mugsi • Jun 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

On the sidelines of other issues, voices are being heard from the under-developed areas of the provinces about the division of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan into more provinces. That demand is not absurd or preposterous. Countries like Turkey, England, even in India and many others have followed the same pattern and have solved many administrative [...]



Deaths in Container

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The death of 52 people in a 16 wheel container on 4th April in the vicinity Hazarganji,  12 kilometers from Quetta was a pathetic scene of the unruliness and administrative incompetence the country is faced with.  It was a heinous crime of human trafficking mafia which resulted in the cold blood murder of innocent people, [...]



A Pakistani-centric understanding of militancy

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Apr 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

One was still recovering from the absurdity of referring to the much-touted Obama policy on Pakistan as “new” when his speech was simply a worn-out, scratched record we in Pakistan are being made to hear ad nauseam, when the ground realities of terrorism in Pakistan struck once again. This time it was the terrifying attack [...]



Torture on Students

By M Mirza • Feb 9th, 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 [...]