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Pakistan’s First Facebook Game!

By Hassan Baig • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

We are one of Pakistan’s first Facebook gaming company and are run almost entirely by students! You can play our first game at http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy

It is a privilege to be able to represent Pakistan in this growing industry and we really feel that with support from our countrymen, we can bring a lot of good tidings [...]



Here’s how Israel would destroy Iran’s nuclear program

By Hassan Baig • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Israeli government ministers and Knesset members who will help make the decision about whether to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities do not have to wait any longer for a preparatory briefing by the Israel Air Force.
They can read about all the possible scenarios for a strike on Iran, and about the potential risks and chances of [...]



Logical Deductions From Lahore Attacks

By Hassan Baig • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

This is not an opinion piece. These are just the facts and logical deductions - any conclusions will be your own. And please note that I do not claim to have been perfectly thorough in my cogitation - the situation is still evolving and no analysis can pretend to be complete at this juncture.
Style of [...]



10 Lessons All Pakistanis Must Learn

By Hassan Baig • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“Mulk khud hi chalta rehay ga” (approximate translation: the country doesn’t need our contribution to thrive) is a sentence many Pakistanis are prone to saying. I confess that till a few years ago, I myself was confident of this misleading notion. Misleading and dangerous - especially in today’s volatile climate. [...]



Open Letter to Imran Khan, Chairman PTI

By Hassan Baig • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

PTI has emerged as the sole flagbearer of change in Pakistan. However in order to ascertain whether your endeavor is much more than hollow soundbites, it would be greatly advantageous if you could shed some light on the following issues for us potential voters. Please note that I have emailed this list of questions to [...]



Ideas to Save Pakistan

By Hassan Baig • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

Several people sometimes ask me what can us individuals with scant political and socioeconomic clout really do to make a difference in our motherland. Especially in recent times this question has taken on an unprecedented urgency. Now whereas I can intellectualize possible answers to this question in terms of fruitless abstractions, I have thus far been unable [...]



The Witch Hunt

By Hassan Baig • May 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There exists a foreboding murmur in the wind - young in age but formidable in intention. It was on May 12th that an article curiously titled “President Apostate?” (by Edward N. Luttwak) appeared in The New York Times. The writer, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, vehemently argued that Sen. Barack [...]



The Path of a Patriot

By Hassan Baig • Nov 18th, 2007 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Opposing General Pervez Musharraf is not a cause worth endorsing solely by itself.General Pervez Musharraf is not the man he was when he first usurped the seat of Pakistan’s government. Over time as his political age has advanced, he has undergone a staged metamorphosis: from an amateur idealist, to a practitioner of temperate Realpolitik, and [...]