Things added in December, 2008
December 24th by Mosharraf Zaidi.
With Pakistan ripe for the picking, India has seized the day. It summoned 120 of its ambassadors to Delhi for a conference to agree on talking points. There's no lack ...
December 24th by Ahmed Quraishi.
Pakistan will have to learn from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other US-friendly nations how they pushed back American interference. This is important for us to be able to also ...
December 24th by Dr. A Q Khan.
Times are changing fast and the world is full of sensational news – the presidential elections in the US; the unexpected win by the Labour candidate in by-elections in the ...
December 24th by Shireen M Mazari.
Thanks to the pusillanimity shown by our leaders ever since the Mumbai acts of terrorism, Pakistan is being squeezed by so-called friends and foe alike. For India its own failures ...
December 16th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
Imagine; the main firearm of the Mumbai police is the 113-year old, .303 Lee-Enfield, magazine-fed, bolt-action rifle (.303 was adopted by the British army in 1895 and discarded in 1957). ...
December 16th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
One of my refrains, when dealing with relations between Pakistan and India, is that South Asia – the expanse that lies under the shadows of the Himalayas – is jinxed. ...
December 13th by Rahimullah Yusufzai.
Businessman Munir Mengal's disclosures about his 22 months' detention in Pakistan are shocking and painful. The only known reason for his arrest and torture at the hands of former president ...
December 13th by Ayesha Ijaz Khan.
If ever there was a time to shun The New York Times, BBC or other mainstream sources of news, this was it. How were the attacks in Mumbai being covered ...
December 13th by Babar Sattar.
Last Thursday Justice Zawaar Hussain Jaffery of the Supreme Court restrained the National Assembly Standing Committee on Education from investigating the matter of reassessment of the examination books and award ...
December 11th by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
Threatening international phone calls and enhanced examination scores have occupied our waking hours this past week, and, given the dark circles under the eyes of many in our nation’s capital, ...
December 11th by Anjum Niaz.
Secretary of State Condi Rice has categorically pointed to “Pakistani soil” being used in Mumbai attacks. And she expects “Pakistan to act.” This is a blunt order from our benefactors ...
December 11th by Marvi Memon.
For Pakistani-US relations to be warm beyond the Presidency, President-elect Obama should avoid the mistakes of the past if he is genuinely interested in winning the hearts of Pakistanis rather ...
December 11th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Earlier this year, the governments of India and Pakistan were actually trying to sort out an easier visa process for travellers. Just the type of boring diplomatic work that countries ...
December 11th by Dr Rubina Saigol.
Fed with the same food, hurt
with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
healed by the same means, warmed and
cooled by the same winter and summer, as a
Christian is? If ...
