Archive for April, 2010
Autism — obsession inexplicable by Sadaf Shahid
2 April, 2010
Friday, April 02, 2010 Sadaf Shahid I am at a park. I see a smart little boy. He is in the pink of health and seems perfect in every respect. Yet, he is somehow different. He has a detached attitude, is disinterested in the games other children are playing. Not even attracted to the rides [...]
State, politics and mass media by Shafqat Mahmood
2 April, 2010Reality check Friday, April 02, 2010 Shafqat Mahmood It is not easy to find heroes among contemporary politicians. Clean image is a rarity and incompetence seems to be a shared trait. The exceptions in this unsavoury milieu stand out like a beacon of light. Yes, flowery language is being unashamedly used because it requires an [...]
Side-effect by Harris Khalique
2 April, 2010Subjects or citizens? Friday, April 02, 2010 Harris Khalique Some of the Muslim scholars of the subcontinent get angry when it is said that we were ruled by outsiders not for 200 but 1,000 years. The subjugation of the local population by the ruling dynasties of Afghans and Central Asian Turks began in the tenth [...]
The constitutional package by M. A. Niazi
2 April, 2010The Parliamentary Constitutional Reforms Committee managed to put together an 18th Amendment abolishing the extra-constitutional accretions made by the two military rulers of the past, but only after crossing two hurdles, those of appointments to the superior judiciary and the name of the NWFP. These issues were settled in the original 1973 constitution, to the [...]
Do we care? by Zaheer Bhatti
2 April, 2010Zaheer Bhatti The first time Pakistan entered the Guinness Book of World Records was when it completed and commissioned the world’s largest dam at Tarbela in 1974, whose reservoir lent to a huge hydel power generation capacity enabling large-scale electrification and bringing a green revolution in agrarian Pakistan, known at that time as the land [...]
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