Things added in October, 2008
October 30th by Kamila Hyat.
"A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away…" begins the dramatic opening sequence to George Lucas's epic film, 'Star Wars', which continues to enrapture audiences over thirty years ...
October 30th by Beena Sarwar.
Whatever the outcome of the US elections, a question mark will hang over the irregularities that have taken place in the run-up to the polls and the actual voting process ...
October 30th by Ikram Sehgal.
With five days to go, the moot point is will Barack Obama's margin of victory over John McCain be a landslide or will the race tighten up? Many Republicans are ...
October 30th by Fasi Zaka.
When I was a lecturer in a public institution of higher education, the HEC under Dr Ata-ur-Rehman was just beginning to flex its muscles. At the time I had an ...
October 30th by Asif Ezdi.
Shortly before Musharraf's unceremonious ouster from the presidency last August, some PML-Q leaders suggested to him that he should cancel the NRO and restore the deposed judges before resigning. This ...
October 27th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Though the first Islamic tomb-garden in India is Sikandar Lodi’s, it was the Mughals who used it to much greater dramatic affect. Aware that the founder of the dynasty has ...
October 27th by Kamal Siddiqi.
While Pakistanis try and figure out the economic future of the country and ponder over what the coming months hold in store for them, hard bargaining and bickering continues over ...
October 27th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
THE condition of the huge overcrowded Bagh that is Pakistan is, at the moment, not quite that as envisaged by Benazir Bhutto before she was so tragically assassinated.
For starters we ...
October 24th by Dr. Masooda Bano.
For those of us who had been furious critics of Gen Musharraf, the daily newspapers make a very sad reading. Gen Musharraf is gone but the policies he pursued prevail ...
October 24th by Shafqat Mahmood.
Is this the worst trouble we have ever been in? It could be, except when half the country was lost in 1971. The militants are actively fighting in Swat and ...
October 24th by Ayaz Amir.
People of my generation -- those in their mid- to late-fifties -- have seen it all: our share of power-grabbing generals promising the nation the moon and leaving disaster behind; ...
October 24th by Haroon ur Rashed.
Haroon Rasheed in todays column talking about leaders who sacrificed their lives for vested interests. He is recalling history with his own way that how Junejo , Zia ul Haq ...
October 24th by Javed Chaudhry.
Javed ch in todays column talking about common people who are fed up with power crises. Suicide rates is on high sky due to sky rocket prices of common utilities. ...
October 24th by Kamila Hyat.
If one wasn't living in it, the situation in Pakistan would seem absurd, almost comical – something like a scenario from the sitcom 'Fawlty Towers' surreally combined with a chapter ...
October 24th by Ikram Sehgal.
Karachi is going through a massive makeover, the most visible change being the construction of many flyovers and some underpasses. The massive water and sewerage projects, being underground, are less ...
October 24th by Fasi Zaka.
The "Friends of Pakistan" initiative is quite original in the face of the utter lack of direction the government has demonstrated in dealing with the economic crisis. But are we ...
October 24th by I A Rehman.
WHILE the fight against terrorists continues to cause nightmares Pakistan has run into another menace — the threat of an economic implosion. And the hardest hit by this affliction too ...
October 24th by Talat Masood.
The war on terror during President Bush’s office has taken menacing overtones — as though it is directed against Islam and is a clash of civilisations. Both candidates, especially Obama, ...
October 23rd by Razi Azmi.
Capitalism will survive and thrive, with a fine-tuning here and an adjustment there, with more regulation or less regulation. Both America and capitalism might say, like Mark Twain, “rumours of ...
October 22nd by Zaheerul Hassan.
The largest democratic country of the world India has population of 1,147,995,904 people which include Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1%. The narrated ...
October 22nd by Shireen M Mazari.
Is Pakistan under occupation? If one is living in the capital, this seems to be the picture as our democratically elected leaders and their state apparatus increasingly behave like an ...
October 22nd by Nasim Zehra.
Almost two weeks into the in-camera session on the security situation, and especially the tribal areas, many questions regarding its usefulness are being raised. For example, are we closer to ...
October 22nd by Ahmed Quraishi.
Where would you put your money: on an America burdened by a $10 trillion debt or a China flush with almost $2 trillion cash reserves, the largest in the world?
You ...
October 20th by Kamal Siddiqi.
Within days of a perceived financial crisis in India, the country’s finance minister, P Chidambaram, confident as ever came on air and assured his country that while the world was ...
October 20th by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
Friday, October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Sounds pretty grim, but if you are on the wrong side of the poverty divide it is even ...
