On September 15 and 16, I stayed at Marriot Islamabad. On September 17, came to Makkah to perform Umrah. While in Madinah Munawwara, I heard with deep shock and anguish that there was huge blast at Marriot Islamabad and the resultant loss of innocent lives, maiming of hundreds. The deep sense of grief engulfed me.
The […]
Here’s an Article by Deborah Scroggins,an American journalist and author on Dr. Afia Siddiqi-the Women who’s calling a Mohmmed Bin Qasim. Where are Human Rights Activists, Civil Society and National Concience.
Look at her ordeal, the allegations, her sufferings and let some one answer the questions, where was she? Whose custody she was? What happened to […]
After the traumatic events of 1971, Pakistan is faced with the most serious crisis in its political history. The Taliban are not knocking at the door, they are now a part and parcel of Pakistani state and society. The process of Talibanization in Pakistan’s north-western region has given rise to new tensions in the body-politic […]
On the 61 Independence Day, as the people of Pakistan celebrate and rejoice, the bounty that became home to the genertion that was witness to the Dawn of 14th August 1947 and since. May be, the former knew what was the vision of Father of the Nation Mr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, do we?
While Celebrating let’s […]
Taliban commanders are taking over more of the country’s ungoverned north-west by the day.Tensions between South Asia’s nuclear-armed rivals are rising. After a suicide-bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul last month—which India blamed on the ISI—its national security adviser, M.K. Narayanan, warned that India might have to “retaliate in kind”.
The economy is hell-bound. […]
The popular verdict of 18 February 2008 was clear: the people had overwhelmingly rejected General Musharraf’s policies that, in the name of ‘war on terror’, had plunged the FATA and NWFP into a war-like situation and, despite all tall claims about economic progress, had greatly widened the gulf between the rich and the poor. The […]
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