Things added in January, 2010
January 17th by Huma Yusuf.
As Shakespeare aptly told us, roses, no matter what you call them, will smell as sweet. The same, metaphorically speaking, can be said of religious parties: drop Islam from their ...
January 17th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
None can deny that one of the most critical issues in the exploding city of Karachi (or Lahore or Rawalpindi) is traffic and transport.
And none can deny that the standard ...
January 13th by Editorial - DAWN.
It is symptomatic of the retrogression in Pakistani society that heinous crimes are committed under the influence of misplaced notions of culture, religion and superstition.
The recent case of infanticide in ...
January 13th by Ijaz Hussain.
The Zardari government accepts
the NRO judgment. However, at the same time it is trying its best to paint the Supreme Court (SC) as being politically motivated. This is understandable because ...
January 12th by Dr. Maleeha Lodhi.
Barack Obama completes his first year as president with his public approval ratings having fallen from a high of 68 per cent when he entered office to 47 per cent.
Is ...
January 12th by Tasneem Noorani.
The rise in the political temperature in the country after the NRO judgement and the confusing response of the president compounded by the inability of the PPP leadership to take ...
January 12th by Kamran Shafi.
There goes Amreeka Bahadur, once again doing exactly the wrong thing. As quoted in this newspaper of record Richard Holbrooke, the czar of American policy planning for Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
January 12th by Editorial - DAWN.
The first parliamentary session of the new year kicked off yesterday with the opposition gearing up to hurl brickbats at the government for all that ails the country and the ...
January 12th by Shahid Javed Burki.
One important component of the developing global structure is the evolving relationship among four countries: China, India, Pakistan and the US. Three of these countries are in Asia, the fourth ...
January 11th by Zafar Hilaly.
Much is written about how the Constitution can be made better; how wars should be fought; why party leaders should be elected and not selected; why controversial judges and their ...
January 11th by Sania Nishtar.
A review of 2009’s grand challenges can provide useful insights for planning 2010. Although issues were pervasive in many state sectors, their salience is being underscored in a few domains ...
January 11th by Talat Masood.
The recent bold initiative of two leading media groups to launch a comprehensive drive at bringing peace between the two nuclear armed antagonists of South Asia should be welcomed as ...
January 11th by Asif Ezdi.
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform (PCCR) was set up in June in response to the demand for constitutional amendments agreed in the Charter of Democracy (CoD). The principal constitutional ...
January 10th by Ardeshir Cowasjee.
Prior to launching into the main subject, the yawning constitutional abyss, I thought it might be suitable, with the country in mourning over the latest non-exploits of its cricket team, ...
January 10th by Editorial - DAWN.
Calls have been made for the army to step in and restore order to Karachi following a spiralling cycle of violence. The MQM asked the military leadership, the Rangers, intelligence ...
January 10th by The News - Editorial.
The tale of the six boys in Swat who were kidnapped by the Taliban and consequently escaped from captivity highlights the extent to which young militants are themselves often victims ...
January 10th by Dr Farrukh Saleem.
2010 is Election Year for America. On Nov 2, voters will elect 440 members of the United States House of Representatives. The same day, elections will be held for at ...
January 10th by Masood Hasan.
It does not behove this nation of suffering humanity to moan and groan when it hears of its lily-white leadership frolicking and surfing off the white sands of distant Gwadar, ...
January 10th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
We, my wife and I, were able to make a dash for Manhattan and spend a couple hours around Times Square on the bitterly cold evening of Wednesday because there ...
January 10th by Adnan Rehmat.
Taking a close look at a city is like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. Take a close look at Islamabad in all its pompous ...
January 5th by Kamran Shafi.
There was the usual and quite absurd story on the Internet the other day, one that amply demonstrates the in-your-face attitudes of those who would use ‘militant’ Islam to further ...
