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Problem is Input or Outcome?

By Rai Azlan • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Since last Monday one piece of news has been my center of focus, the news might not be as big as it could have make a headline in main stream media but it captured my mind and heart for so many days. The news was a about a kid from Karachi, Arbaz. Arbaz lost his [...]



Fiza Signature Launch

By The Partylicious • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Renowned model and actress Fiza Ali recently launched her very own designer label: Fiza Signature with an exhibition put together by Verve Events at Nai Rang Art Gallery, Lahore. Showcasing her Ready to Wear Spring & Summer 2010 collection, Fiza is also planning to host more exhibitions in Islamabad, Karachi, and Faisalabad to introduce people [...]



The ‘Deepak’ Philosophy!

By The Partylicious • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Some 15 years ago, Fifi Haroon tagged him as the bad boy of Pakistan’s Fashion Industry. Now, Deepak Perwani wants to shed off that image and is ready to be a nice boy. And it doesn’t stop there. He’s bored. Even though he has had a successful showcasing at Milan Fashion Week as recent as [...]



Cats Safeguarding Milk in Karachi

By Salman Mugsi • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The smouldering current tension on the horizon of the Karachi is not only very ominous for the city, but also very alarming for the country. Though almost all the major parties of the city except Jamat e Islami and Tehrik e Islami are out of the government, the big guns like ANP, MQM and PPP [...]



Incessant targeting of Pakistan

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Politics

The US duplicity in its dealings with Pakistan continues unabated and I have always maintained that the scale of their enterprise in destabilising Pakistan can only be understood by finding linkages in seemingly unconnected events and publications. Just when the Pakistan military has taken a strong position on its military operations in FATA and the [...]



Karachi Carnage

By Dr. Huma Mir • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Features

Karachi is bleeding after the twin blasts on Chehlum Day claimed 33 lives and left more than 170 injured. The law enforcement apparatus has not learnt its lessons, as usual even before collecting evidence for investigation, there were contradictory statements from Police Officials and Bomb Disposal Squad on the nature of blast. One agency stated [...]



How America Makes Its Enemies Disappear

By Isha Khan • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from her hometown in Karachi [...]



Ethnocentrism in Karachi

By Guest Blogger • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Forecast of Quaid-e-Azam about Pakistan with reference to Provincialism,
( 28 March,1948,Dhaka)
“If we begin to think of ourselves as Bengalis, Punjabis, Sindhis etc. first and Muslims and Pakistanis only incidentally, then Pakistan is bound to disintegrate.”
Above forecast of Quaid-e-Azam was truly proved when in 1971 Pakistan disintegrated, and now still Pakistani nation is still going on [...]



Karachi : Bone of Contenton Between MQM and PPP

By Haris Hashmi • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Politics

There are no ethnic or religious differences in the metropolis of Karachi. All the clash and conflict is between the political thugs of PPP and MQM who are armed to their teeth and who have got all the backing from top. Starting from the looting and arsoning of Boulton Market, and the target killing going [...]



Karachi Land Mafia

By Muskan Hina • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Whenever riots erupt in Karachi, all the factions blame that to the Land Mafia. The Karachiites wonder as who exactly this land mafia is. This faceless monster is so powerful that nobody knows about it and nobody has ever seen it and yet it wrecks havoc in the city after every two weeks.
All of a [...]