30 Days in Afghanistan – Dinner Conversations
I feel the room getting smaller, I want to find an excuse to leave. Why did I decide to show up? I’ve managed to stay...
Category: Politics
Mahatma Gandhi’s Progeny – By Farzana Versey
“Let the minorities understand that their real safety lies in the goodwill of the majority”. (Words of wisdom at the recently-concluded RSS executive council meeting)...
A Nation of Beggars – By Murad Ali Baig
Perhaps someday India will find a leader who has the courage to proclaim “Ameeri badao” instead of “gareebi hatao” and let loose India’s gigantic potential....
A Work In Progress – By F. Khan
The founder of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was blessed with an acute eye for property and in creating Pakistan, he put Pakistan at a crossroads...
Bangladesh: Democracy On The Move – By Fuad Chowdhury
A powerful and popular youth uprising in 1990, similar to the recent events in Egypt, Bangladesh achieved a democratic government from the President General Ershad, who had come to...
What the Politicians Will Not Tell You About the Economy – By Shahzad Kazi
The single biggest issue with the economy is that the US became non-competitive in the global economy and moved manufacturing out. As we are heading...
Book Review: Friends Not Masters [Autobiography of General Ayub Khan]
Book Review: Friends Not Masters Author: Mohammad Ayub Khan Review by Raza Bashir Even though it is an autobiography that the author calls a...
Psychology of Suicide ’Bombers’ – By Khalid Sohail
Who are the people who get involved in “terrorist attacks”? Why would someone kill innocent civilians? What kind of personalities and philosophies do such people...
10 Kinds of People of Pakistan – By Khaled Ahmed
10 Kinds of People of Pakistan – Khaled Ahmed [Download PDF]
The Argumentative Amartya? – By Farzana Versey
The tragedy of Amartya Sen is of being a non-hero, a Buddha without renunciation. There has been a great deal of flurry over his new...
Building Barriers in Britain – By Farouq Taj
The veil is driving a wedge between Muslims and their neighbours British Muslims have been at the receiving end of much criticism lately. Everyone seems...
Burqah, Secularism & Liberalism – By Raza Habib
They (orthodox Muslims) are ready to cry foul when something happens in France while being supportive of Taliban oppression in our side of the world....
Bhuttos Never Die – By Dilawar Asghar
It was Zulfikar Bhutto who rebuilt this shattered Pakistan, who gave common man a voice. A green passport to a laborer so he or she...
USA and Muslims
Muslim extremists generally dislike non-Muslims and they hate various people at local level, for example Chechens, Pakistanis and Arabs hate Russians, Indians and Israelis respectively....
An Analysis of the Information Technology Industry in Pakistan – By Faraz Hoodbhoy
Pakistan Map 1.0 Abstract This paper presents a personal perspective of the state of Information Technology (IT) industry in Pakistan. It is a collection of...
