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May 17, 2009
Muslim Khan, the spokesman of Pakistani Taliban, has won unprecedented notoriety for justifying beheading, flogging, and digging up and hanging the dead. He has a personal stake in propagating the kind of education Muslims of the world must have. Or must not have. He has justified the bombing of sch...
May 11, 2009
Only till two weeks before, Pakistan´s overwhelmingly right wing media, the traditionally left leaning Awami National Party (ANP), the born again Islamists like Imran Khan, right of the centre Nawaz League, and the centrist Zardari People´s Party were applauding the agreement between the ANP governm...
April 27, 2009
When the media glorifies evil, where can people find the truth?
November 11, 2008
When General Musharraf deposed Ifitikhar Chaudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, on 9 March 2007, he did not realize there would be such an endless and widespread chain of protests all over the country. It was for the first time in Pakistan´s history that a judge had defied a general´s ...
October 26, 2008
The cocoon of science around our lives is so comprehensive that it has become more than a sine qua non for the world to go on today. Not only that. In the non-material, non-day-to-day affairs too science is the inevitable, formidable player. Science is a magic wand that gives credibility and validit...
August 16, 2008
How Pakistanis see American intervuction.entions in their country and the consequent destr
July 11, 2008
Recently the BBC web site posted a report on the deteriorating situation in Kurram, the Shia-majority area in Pakistan´s lawless north western tribal region (See: "Pakistan tribal area aid appeal" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7499490.stm>).
Here are the salient points the BBC report:...
November 05, 2007
Nothing fails like failure! (Dr A.H. Khayal)
I have just read Dr A.H. Khayal’s article “Only an accident can rescue” published in these columns on 2 November. I must say that Dr Khayal writes the way he speaks, and for a little while I felt I was sitting in his class as I used to in the mid 1980s...
October 27, 2007
By the end of December 1971, the Pakistan Army had come to be hated so much that the soldiers and their officers could venture out of their barracks and bungalows only dressed up as civilians. Only a couple of weeks before, these uniformed despised were the holy cows of the people of West Pakistan (...
October 25, 2007
During his 22-year rule as Malaysia’s prime minister Dr. Mahatir found himself at the centre of so many controversies that it is not possible to touch upon even a fraction of them in just one article. Some of the controversies that earned him international attention were his claim that the Jews get ...