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Why do we need to redefine Hate Speech?

By Yasir Imran • Sep 26th, 2012 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Any Sensible person in the world can simply understand that the movie Innocence of Muslims created by some crazy Americans is clearly “Hate Speech” and insulting to Islam. I don’t think There is any argument required on this neither a Poll required to prove a reality which is already very clear. Anger in Muslim World can be clearly seen [...]



Pakistanis Stand with Americans : Shame on Faisal Shehzad

By Altaf Khan • May 5th, 2010 • Category: Politics

In my opinion, the claim made by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Taliban terrorist Movement of Pakistan regarding taking responsibility of the time square attack is false and aimed at gaining publicity.
Qari Hussain, the notorious mentor of Taliban suicide bombers, in one of the tapes has talked about taking onus of these attacks and also [...]



The Strategic Dialogue between Reluctant Allies

By Dr. Sohail Mehmood • Apr 18th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The first ministerial-level strategic dialogue between Pakistan and the United States took place on March 17-18, 2010 in Washington, D.C. It was chaired by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. A cautious optimism was expressed in the media on the outcome of the dialogue. It was said [...]



Purposeless knee-jerk reactions

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Jan 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

So the US has decided to increase the torture for travellers from Pakistan and other “suspect” countries. It is not just Pakistanis who will now face the “full-body pat downs” but anyone who has visited Pakistan or any of the other countries either seen as supporters of terrorism or countries of “special interest”. Interestingly, these [...]



No Drone Attack During Hilary Clinton Visit

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Oct 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics

The people of Federally Administered Tribal regions of Pakistan must be wishing in thier hearts that the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remain in Pakistan for as long as possible or forever, as it will save them from the fatal Drone Attacks.
Hillary Clinton has said that the United States was not losing the [...]



When absurdities rule

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Travelling back from usual monthly visit to my village in Rajanpur district, I was intending to write on the mistreatment of southern Punjab at the hands of the local feudals in power, the provincial government and the national leadership. The latest action in this regard was the cutting off of our water on the orders [...]



Afghanistan’s Doomed Occupation

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Oct 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one, if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled…. That isn’t preventive war; that is war….. It seems to me that when, [...]



Chaos and neglect — national drift

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

As another 14th August approaches, there is so much disarray and violence across the land and amid it all there is a qualitative increase in the dangerous trend of giving over sovereign space – both in terms of physical land as well as people – that one barely knows where to begin commenting. However, since [...]



India, America, Diplomatic Hide n Seek

By Ch. Naeem Sidhu • Aug 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Shifting Sands

By A Khokar • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

 If we take the usual defamatory rhetoric in the press about President Pervez Musharraf out—- that the man availed a lateral entry to come to the power and took an infamous action of U-Turn after incident of 9/11 but reality is that there he was who ruled us for eight long years as a President [...]