Archive for May, 2010
Ikna Sheltor Home by Tayyaba Zia
3 May, 2010
”اِکنا “شیلٹر ہوم ۔۔۔! طیبہ ضیاء ـ امریکہ بھر میںاکناتنظیم فنڈ ریزنگ کی تقریبات کا اہتمام ہوتا رہتا ہے۔چند روز قبل نیویارک کے ایک مقامی ہوٹل میں منعقد ہونے والے فنڈ ریزنگ ڈنر میں مجھے بھی شرکت کا موقع ملا۔ہال میں موجود خواتین میں وہ لڑکی سب سے منفرد دکھائی دے رہی تھی۔ سیاہ رنگ [...]
Wazir e Azam Pakistan Key Hemra… by Ijaz Hafeez Khan
3 May, 2010Express columns
Elections, empowerment and the elusive search for peace by Jawed Naqvi
3 May, 2010Jawed Naqvi Monday, 03 May, 2010 WE’RE told that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to talk to Islamabad because Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, following the recent 18th Amendment of Pakistan’s constitution, is now an “empowered” representative of his country. At least this is what the usual unnamed Indian officials were quoted [...]
Thimphu’s sin of stupidity by Zafar Hilaly
3 May, 2010Monday, May 03, 2010 Zafar Hilaly “There is no sin except stupidity,” said Oscar Wilde. And that was writ large in Thimphu, Bhutan, as Pakistan and India for the umpteenth time promised to make a go of their relationship. As if they have an option. Behaving merely so that one’s vanity is not upset is [...]
S Waziristan as I saw it by Ayaz Wazir
3 May, 2010Monday, May 03, 2010 Ayaz Wazir Believing that the government was now making genuine efforts to improve things in Waziristan, I was always hard put to believe visitors returning from Waziristan who told me horrifying tales of the problems they faced travelling on the Wana-Gomal-Tank road. But seeing is believing, and I experienced the same [...]
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