Things added in November, 2008
November 26th by Shireen M Mazari.
Lack of formal education and sheer ignorance does not by definition imply an innate sense of stupidity. On the other hand, formal education in itself is no guarantee of an ...
November 26th by Ahmed Quraishi.
If the federal Pakistani government had smarter politicians and media managers in office, they would have shown interest in Charity and Veronica Bowers. Almost eight years ago, the CIA asked ...
November 26th by Nasim Zehra.
The gap is too obvious between what Pakistani government representatives state and what appears to be the reality. For example, the recent statements by the president and prime minister hoping ...
November 26th by Dr. A Q Khan.
I don't belong to the lawyers' community but that doesn't mean that I am unaware of their activities. The greatest lawyer was the creator of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. ...
November 25th by Anjum Niaz.
He's a doctor by career but a journalist by profession. How convenient is that! Yet, the maverick who rose to dizzying heights just in a span of eight short years ...
November 25th by Khalid Aziz.
What was projected to occur within the next few weeks in my last article has come to pass already; the drones for the first time attacked a target inside the ...
November 25th by Mosharraf Zaidi.
As the world's attention turns increasingly to Pakistan and its role in tackling the threat of globalised terrorism, the country's perception abroad is evolving. More than seven years after 9/11, ...
November 22nd by Marvi Memon.
I am leading a delegation of parliamentarians to China at the gracious invitation of the Chinese Communist Party in its 30th year of reforms celebrations. It’s my first visit out ...
November 22nd by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
The US has raised the stakes by firing missiles from its drones at a target in the southern district of Bannu in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). It is a ...
November 22nd by Aziz Ahmad.
President-elect Barack Obama took the stage in Grant Park, Chicago, just before midnight on November 4, scanned the sea of people assembled to listen to him, and greeted them: "Hello, ...
November 22nd by Farhatullah Babar.
Twelve years ago Pakistan’s only and the Muslim world’s first Nobel laureate Professor Abdus Salam passed into eternity on November 21, 1996. Salam was chased and hounded both in life ...
November 21st by Shafqat Mahmood.
They are in there and yet no one seems to acknowledge their presence. These elephants are realities that all of us can see but because of fear, self-interest, pragmatism, or ...
November 21st by Dr. Masooda Bano.
Despite the common feature of the region, each Middle Eastern country does has its own distinct feel, as I found travelling from Egypt to Jordan. Jordan is much smaller than ...
November 21st by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
There has, in recent weeks, been much discussion on the role of the media. Is it irresponsible and sensationalist, selling bad news and despair? Is it a reflection of society? ...
November 21st by Ayaz Amir.
The Predator strike on a Bannu village marks a first: the first missile strike outside FATA (the acronym to describe the seven tribal agencies--now the scene of the mayhem the ...
November 20th by Kamila Hyat.
There was a moment at the Alhamra Cultural Complex, venue of the ongoing World Performing Arts Festival, which underscored the dichotomy that has today become a distinguishing feature of our ...
November 20th by Fasi Zaka.
I am no expert in FATA or the tribal areas, and speaking Pashto at home hasn't made me one. But whenever I talk to the custodians of the troubled areas, ...
November 14th by Ayaz Amir.
Those counting on Asif Ali Zardari's reinvention, that as president he would cast off the baggage of the past and be a new man, can be reminded of a line ...
November 14th by Dr. Masooda Bano.
My current travels through the Middle East, to understand the Islamic schooling systems in the countries of the region, is providing some interesting comparisons between Middle Eastern societies and Pakistan. ...
November 14th by Shafqat Mahmood.
There is little doubt that we have been through a very bad period. If the economy is a barometer of a nation's health, nothing good has happened for the last ...
November 13th by Kamila Hyat.
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light," Welsh poet Dylan Thomas had famously urged in one of his finest works. The people of Pakistan have raged for years, battling ...
November 13th by Ikram Sehgal.
In his Politics among Nations, Hans Morgenthau defined national security as "the integrity of the national territory and its institutions." Till recently, national security meant a state's freedom from another ...
November 13th by Zaheerul Hassan.
On November 8, 2008 newly elected US President Barack Obama in a telephonic conversation with President Zardari offered to play role in revival of Depleting Economic condition and fortifying the ...
November 11th by Ejaz Haider.
Forgive my lack of politeness but sometimes it serves to get right to the point. The government should immediately relieve Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar of his current portfolio.
Mr Mukhtar is a ...
November 11th by Kamal Siddiqi.
For a country tottering on bankruptcy, it seems strange to appoint a cabinet of nearly 60, thereby breaking the record of another all-time great prime minister, Mr Shaukat Aziz. What ...
