Archive for July, 2013

Deepak Adhikari :  She climbed Everest twice but now faces more daunting challenges Chhurim Sherpa is trailing her success. Early this year, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized her as the first woman who climbed Mount Everest twice in the same season. The extraordinariness of her accomplishment catapulted her from a life of obscurity […]

By Azaz Syed – “Civilian Supremacy is at the top of Nawaz Sharif’s mind as he decides to initiate a treason case against Pervez Musharraf and looks for a successor to Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.” A Twist of Fate  On June 5th, a unit of 111 Brigade welcomed Nawaz Sharif and family back into the […]

By Moeed Pirzada – Moeed Pirzada, after returning from a trip to Istanbul, offers an insightful analysis of the developments at Taksim Square, their ramifications and the lessons Pakistan can draw from the turmoil in Turkey. Few people in Pakistan have been able to fathom why the public protests in Turkey, that erupted in June,  […]

Lt.-Gen (R) Talat Masood: Both Washington and Islamabad need to do more to recast their troubled relations as a new civilian government in Pakistan takes to power In the aftermath of the Pakistani elections and Nawaz Sharif’s government in place with a comfortable majority, U.S. and Pakistan should be looking forward to working closely at […]

By Naila Inayat –  A conversation with Zeb Bangash of Zeb and Haniya Music Duo The music duo of Zeb and Haniya took the Pakistani music scene by a storm in 2008 with their groundbreaking album ‘Chup’, a delectable mix of folk and modern music. Now, they are planning to go big in India, collaborating with […]

By Sabeen H. Syed –  207 Art Gallery opened its doors to Art lovers in Houston, US, recently. Sabeen H. Syed, the owner, tells Pique about Art, her passion, and her dream of introducing Pakistani artists to the American audience Art is an expression  of the imagination of the artist on a canvas. It is seen […]

By Rabia Ahmed –  A prescient novel about the evolving Pakistani Society by Zulfiqar Ghose After taking over in a military coup, Ayub Khan was elected president, Pakistan and India fought a war and the turmoil led to Yahya Khan taking over in another military coup. In an unsettling atmosphere the 1960s, injustice and corruption started […]

By Zaman Malik –  Zaman Malik writes about the design he chose for a building project of BeaconHouse School System in Islamabad Normally one would select a residential project to exemplify design but we thought of going one step ahead and selected an upcoming building that might set a precedent in green school design. I […]

By Agha Akbar – A sex scandal rattles Pakistani women’s cricket While Pakistan cricket – the men’s version – has been since its very inception steeped into intrigue and controversy, women’s cricket though a much latter day phenomenon had until recently maintained pristine standards. Not a whiff of scandal, till the charge of sexual harassment […]