Archive for August, 2013

Deepak Adhikari :  Ahmadi Pakistanis escaped to Nepal to save their lives from persecution but found themselves dogged by economic troubles On a recent Sunday afternoon, a voice in Urdu echoes through a desolate neighborhood of a valley on the outskirts of Kathmandu. We are climbing a four-story building tucked away against green paddy fields. […]

Caesar Mandal :  He could be a monk or a successful entrepreneur but he is a politician or a ‘political entrepreneur’ who loves to define himself both Hindu and a nationalist. Narendra Damodardas Modi is the symbol of contradiction and controversy in sub-continental politics. The 62-year-old man knows his contradictions and uses this aspectas a […]

By Aamir Saeed –  An army corporal became permanently disabled after four years of illegal detention for crimes he did not commit Muhammad Iqbal was serving as a Naik, or corporal, in Pakistan Army and deployed on the Leepa Front in Azad Kashmir when he was suddenly picked up by an intelligence agency on Nov […]

By Ejaz Haider – Will we seriously discuss uncomfortable truths? In the dimly-lit Islamabad living room on a recent evening, the discussion was focused on who might have leaked the Abbottabad Commission Report to Al-Jazeera. Theories abounded. Everyone who was least likely to know the source had the most elaborate theory about who might have […]

By Mirza Shahzad Akbar –  The question is whether or not Mr. Sharif has been able to convey to America that he and his nation cannot tolerate the killing of its population at the hands of Americans any further On March 17th, 2011 a CIA-operated drone killed 44 members of Madakhel tribe Jirga in Datta […]

By Cdra B –  Reham Khan, a talk show host currently with AAJ TV, is being noticed for her choice of topical and insightful shows. Pique had an exclusive chat with her What do you like in journalism and to be on screen? It is like meeting a lot of interesting people and come across challenging […]

By Ali Aftab Saeed –  Few musicians and fewer awards Singing in Pakistan is not for the fainthearted or for females, to be precise. According to The Music In Muslim Shrines Act, 1942 of the Government of Punjab, which seems to have been recently reinstated, no female can sing with or without instruments in any shrine […]

After Islamabad China Town Opens in Lahore  

By Rabia Ahmed –  The only statement even mildly approaching profound from the author’s pen is to be found in the last chapter of Tehmina Durrani’s latest book, ‘Happy Things in Sorrow Times’, where she writes: ‘Death is an invincible bodyguard.’ There is nothing to equal this anywhere in the book, except what is incidental to […]