Archive for April, 2013

Shahid Malik :  Though the path to post-2014 Afghan stability seems to be clearing up, it’s still going to be a tough haul As the Afghan Taliban gear up to form a political party to contest the upcoming Afghanistan Presidential Elections, one that has the potential of rivaling the Karzai regime, all the credit goes […]

By Aamir Saeed Despite great humanitarian services they render, nurses are consigned to lead a life of self-denial and ridicule It is morning at a medical ward in a state-run hospital with patients standing in a long queue for check-up. Suddenly, a patient crying in pain emerges from one of the nearby wards. There is nobody […]

By Moayyed Jafri – Depending on one’s expectations, the ECP’s scrutiny process is going to both disappoint and please those looking for cleaner politicians As the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) gears up to implement measures for the scrutiny of candidates for the 2013 elections, it is widely believed that this process, if conducted with […]

By Shahzada Irfan Ahmed – There’s an eerie pattern to mob attacks against Christians. What is it that makes them sitting ducks and what should the state do to stop it Just as it was a remake of a successful movie, thousands of enraged protesters attacked Joseph Colony — a settlement of Christians in Badami […]

By A Rahim Khan – Felix Baumgartner, the first human ever to break the sound barrier without using a vehicle recalls his feat for the ages in a first for a Pakistani publication In 1957, the Soviet Union fired a shot that was neither missile nor warhead but resounded across the globe, ringing particularly clear […]

By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid –  The IP pipeline’s math does add up but the PPP’s farewell populist shot has caused a lot of international ripples It wouldn’t be entirely out of place to tout Tehran as a bit of a daredevil of global politics. However, saying the same of Islamabad would be stretching things beyond […]

By Ali Rizvi – — Nur Ali, Pakistan’s first NASCAR driver Nur Ali is the first Pakistani race car driver to compete in National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing or NASCAR. With little resources and no connections in the racing circuit, Nur toiled his way to success with just family by his side. At […]

By Afia Salam –  Content-wise, the National Climate Change Policy is welcome even though a mixed bag. But what about implementing mechanisms? A large body of people, including scientists in the West, especially the U.S., is still debating the veracity of warnings pertaining to the rise in earth’s temperature and the resultant disasters clubbed under […]

Bad publicity for democracy A celebration was probably in order to acknowledge the stepping of democracy into adolescence but we got more than the expected backslapping over the completion of a full term in the end. However, it is the transition bit at the first hurdle which produced labour pains that we were given to […]