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America: Our Ultimate Nanny?

By Maham Javed • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Ever since the Creation of Pakistan, a need for an ally was one that was deeply felt. Pakistan, suffering from the loss of her leader and founder, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was still teetering on dangerous grounds. India was yet again to be seen happily contemplating the moment when Pakistan would take a tumble or […]



Coming of Age

By Maham Javed • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Politics

This is the 21st century; the century of civilization. We have long since stepped past the barbarians, the stone age. The mushrooming, rapid advancements of the modern era and its technologies has made our life a living heaven- and yet not.
Computers, mobile phones and many other transitory advancements have opened doors for another: the most […]



The Forsaken; Plight of the Biharis.

By Maham Javed • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Stench seeps out from the very core of the camps. Inhabited by 160, 000 people, the place is a picture of a small despicable and dilapidated colony. The word ‘slums’ does no proper justice to it. Tightly packed with flea-infested surroundings, the whole area is best by severe over-crowding, poor sanitation and lack basic facilities. […]



Main Bhee Pakistan Hoon, Tu Bhee Pakistan Hay

By Maham Javed • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.” These glorious words and many others of our Quaid seems to have fallen in a dark pit […]



Wake Up Pakistanis; India strikes again!

By Maham Javed • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

It’s not one of the last tumultuous and intricate problems that are in the bag for the Pakistani Nation. Foes and foreign forces are accumulating in the adjoining countries as well as the far away ones like America and Israel; whose recent eagle-eye is fixed upon one of the most lonesome state in this world: […]



Coming of Age

By Maham Javed • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Politics

This is the 21st century; the century of civilization. We have long since stepped past the barbarians, the stone age. The mushrooming, rapid advancements of the modern era and its technologies has made our life a living heaven- and yet not.
Computers, mobile phones and many other transitory advancements have opened doors for another: the most […]