May 11, 2012 - ON the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death last week, Pakistan was the only Muslim country in which hundreds of demonstrators gathered to show solidarity with the dead terrorist figurehead.  Read More

May 07, 2012 - Fazeel Asif Jah is CEO of www.ipaidbribe.pk. in an interview on the launch of the web site.  Read More

April 30, 2012 - Shanaz Ramzi is an extraordinary person. She wears many hats and wears all of them well. She writes on a wide variety of subjects and does a good job.  Read More

April 30, 2012 - Allah keh naam par 10 rupay dey dey beta. (Please give me Rs10 in God’s name, son.) Roti khila dey, tujhey ek naik aur khubsurat biwi miley. (Give me bread to eat and you will find a beautiful, decent wife)  Read More

April 30, 2012 - Kaneez* has five young children with a small age difference between them. She works full-time as a domestic maid and takes short, rushed breaks in order to nurse her youngest child, a five-month-old infant. If her break becomes longer than the expected five minutes, she is severely rebuked by her employer.  Read More

April 26, 2012 - A hundred and twenty-seven deaths in an instant. The nonsensical loss of hundreds of innocent lives in the very city you live in.  Read More

April 26, 2012 - Pakistanis have become a callous case of some glaring social and political contradictions.  Read More

April 26, 2012 - “Lifestyle Pakistan” in New Delhi is a by-product of this new realisation. More than 100 Pakistani traders, entrepreneurs, top designers and models turned up in India’s national capital recently to display that face of Pakistan which has not been exposed to the full public glare in India.  Read More

April 25, 2012 - Islamabad : A Pakistani daily has described as "agonising" the political rift over the probe into an aircrash here that left 127 people dead.  Read More

April 25, 2012 - The draft of an agreed strategic agreement between the US and Afghanistan is still behind a smokescreen since details are yet to follow 'internal reviews' in the two countries.  Read More

April 25, 2012 - When I come across feedback and comments by fellow Pakistanis, that are discouraging, baseless, defamatory and corroded in every way possible, a temporary feeling of dejection takes over my being.  Read More

April 24, 2012 - This is a story that we often tell each other at the Alif Laila Tavern in Virginia because it concerns all of us. It is about a great loss that few understand and fewer mourn.  Read More

April 23, 2012 - The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has registered nearly 40 million women in the country.  Read More

April 23, 2012 - The first thought, when confronted with a tragedy of the magnitude of the Bhoja Air crash that killed everyone on board, is to mourn the unnecessary loss of life and offer condolences to the friends and families of all the victims.  Read More

April 23, 2012 - old Sulemanki border post with India, declaring that “Pakistan is willing to have dialogue with India on all issues, and is also open to trade with the neighbouring country”.  Read More

April 19, 2012 - COURTS are a sign of peace where people seek justice for their grievances. But in Pakistan the situation is quite different. I thought that the Pakistani courts have become an icon of justice, but my recent bitter experience has forced me to change my opinion.  Read More

April 03, 2012 - IT appears that pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy have swept by-elections in Myanmar. The party has claimed that the Nobel Prize-winner and her NLD colleagues have won 44 of the 45 seats though official results will not be in for another few days. Still, supporters are in a jubilant mood. If confirmed, it would be a well-deserved victory for Ms Suu Kyi after years of struggle and suffering. She has undergone long periods of house arrest isolated from her family in over two decades of confrontation with the military junta that ruled Myanmar from 1962 to 2010, when the generals made way for civilian proxies. The by-polls have not been without controversy, with the NLD pointing out numerous irregularities. Ms Suu Kyi’s party had won a convincing majority in 1990’s election; however, the junta refused to recognise the victory and clung to power for another 20 years, crushing all dissent.  Read More

April 03, 2012 - THE latest increase in domestic petroleum prices announced on Saturday, to stay abreast of global trends, has pushed the government into a very tight corner. If it withdraws the increase, partially or completely, as demanded by all and sundry, it will have to deal with serious financial repercussions. The budget deficit is already being projected to rise to seven per cent of GDP. If it does not, it will still face grave political consequences at a time when the next election is just around the corner. People burdened by years of high inflation and led by the opposition are already on the streets in many places protesting growing shortages of electricity and its soaring prices.  Read More

March 05, 2012 - Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said, while talking to pressmen in Islamabad on Saturday, that the policy of supporting the Taliban was now abandoned.  Read More

March 03, 2012 - ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday, while hearing the case of slapping one of the polling staff by PPP candidate Waheeda Shah during the by-polls, observed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the Sindh Police chief had failed to take prompt action in the matter.  Read More