Things tagged as English.
June 30th by Kamran Shafi.
THIS past week the Commando, and his sidekick the Private Banker, or shall we say Tweedledum and Tweedledee, were interviewed by a private TV channel in London, where they live ...
February 23rd by Roedad Khan.
With General Musharraf’s exit, we thought we had reached the summit. Alas! The ascent of one ridge simply revealed the next daunting challenge. Mr Jinnah could not have foreseen the ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
