Archive for June, 2010
Pas Nosht by Hamid Akhtar
4 June, 2010
Hamid Akhtar columns
Israel’s challenge to the world by Kuldip Nayar
4 June, 2010It depends on how you interpret the ‘right to live’. The Israelis believe that they can live only if their state, Israel, is not challenged by any power or people in the Middle East. The Palestinians, who were once strongly opposed to the existence of Israel, believe that they, however weak militarily, too have the [...]
Notes from the courtroom by Cyril Almeida
4 June, 2010Politicians are scum. Politically, it’s an old argument, probably as old as politics itself. Few here would particularly disagree with the assessment. Constitutionally, it’s a novel argument. But that’s what the Supreme Court witnessed this week as Akram Sheikh went on his confused and confusing rant against the new process for selecting judges under the [...]
The blasphemy around us by Ayaz Amir
4 June, 2010Islamabad diary Friday, June 04, 2010 Ayaz Amir If Islam stands for anything, it is for a just society, free from want and oppression. There is, thus, in Islam no blasphemy greater than a child dying of hunger, a child begging for bread, a woman drowning herself and her children, as has frequently happened in [...]
Protecting the environment by Ahmad Rafay Alam
4 June, 2010Urban/urbane Friday, June 04, 2010 Ahmad Rafay Alam Just a few days before the World Environment Day, the Punjab government has announced a scheme to grant the land reserved as forests and protected by law for agricultural purposes. With less than 5 per cent of Pakistan’s surface having forest cover, this new initiative is like [...]
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