Every 10 years when a military ruler is discredited, we suddenly see a loud chorus of dyed in the wool pro-establishment voices attempting to cleanse...
Author - Laila Ebadi
Originally published in The Australian: Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir eschews violence, but it has no problem with incendiary rhetoric about...
Note: This excellent and timely article is cross-posted from the blog Silsila-e-Mah-o-Saal I have thought about it quite frequently since the attack...
The News is no alien to yellow journalism. The whole Jang Group has an immense history of publishing concoted stories based on the unknown sources of...
Cross posted from Anas Abbas’ blog Attacks reminiscent of DAATA DARBAR and Ahmedi bombings have been a norm in Afghanistan and Pakistani Tribal...
From The News: Data Darbar volunteer sacrifices his life preventing bomber LAHORE: A volunteer at Data Darbar set an example of courage when he...
No other nation or any ethnic community, in the known world history, has ever been entrapped in the longest protracted conflict as the Hindus and...
Thousands of orators and writers all across the world have praised the charisma of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Mr. Bhutto was undoubtedly a lion...
Published on Marvi Memon’s website In the present budget session we have been witness to very unfortunate exchange of allegations on KBD. None...
Source Newsline Magazine (May 2010): The Iran-Pakistan pipeline agreement, inked in March, is the latest step Islamabad has made in the long-running...
Report published by the Brookings Institute: Overview: Increasing educational attainment is likely to reduce conflict risk, especially in countries...
Published in Dawn Blog: The enormous success of the right wing anti-Islam party in the recent elections in the Netherlands indicates a widespread...
Published in The News: Much has been written about corruption and how there seems to be no way out of the morass we find ourselves in. The recent...
Published in The News. Read Part I here The estimate that the government will be able to a) raise Rs19.4 billion from privatisation, given the...
Published in Huffington Post “The latest sad news is that the Christian Crusaders (Americans) have burned a copy of the Holy Quran in Wardak...
Published in The News: The budget for 2010/11 has been presented at a time that the economy is struggling and the government’s fiscal position...
Published in The News: Hundreds of people arrested on terrorism charges during the army operations in Swat and other areas remain in custody without...
As a result of her dispute last week with Fauzia Behram, Sajida Mir has been dismissed from her role as president of the Lahore chapter of the...
Some important points: 1. Ahmed Ludhianvi accuses 25 PPP MNAs including Qamar Zaman Kaira, Faisal Karim Kundi and Jamshed Dasti of taking the support...
The Economic Survey of Pakistan is available for download on the Ministry of Finance website. The executive summary of the Economic Survey is also...
As of May 2010, there are 2.5 million Afghan girls enrolled in school which is a sharp contrast to 2001 when female education was banned across the...
It might be worthwhile to read two differing perspectives on the FCR and the FATA reform in order to come to an informed conclusion on a complicated...
Note: you can download the full Amnesty International report referenced in this article here Source BBC Millions of Pakistanis live in a “human...
The PDF document is available to read here
Some useful tables from the document:
Link to Part 1: Pakistan defence forums has posted a very interesting discussion thread on the reasons for the extremely low rate of terrorism...
Source BBC Up to 700 people in a tribal region of north-west Pakistan watched the Taliban publicly execute a man accused of killing two brothers...
Sherry Rehman has been one parliamentarian who has consistently taken a brave stance against all forms of extremism and bigotry. In February she...
From this report in Dawn it seems that it has come to the notice of the Public Accounts committee (headed by Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan) that when Dr...
Source New York Times LAHORE, Pakistan — Days after one of the worst terrorist attacks in Pakistan, a senior Pakistani official declared in a...
Source Economic and political weekly (With thanks to reader Hussain Bux Mallah for providing a link to this article) With the passing of the 18th...
Let’s consider the acquittals in high profile terrorism cases in May 2010 alone: On May 30, Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid was acquitted in...
First published in the Express Tribune: KARACHI: Considered as one of the most powerful personalities of the country, President Asif Ali Zardari in...
Source Express Tribune The ongoing stabilisation phase of economic adjustment has gone well but as always there are nuances and reservations. The...
Source Daily Times The JUI-F cares more for saving the skin of its leadership than national interests. By signalling a parting of ways with the...
Outflow from Hunza Lake imminent (Express Tribune): Assistant Commissioner Hunza, Zamir Abbas told The Express Tribune that water from the lake would...
No solution to yarn duty issue in sight – Nasir Jamal (Dawn): LAHORE, May 27: In their separate meetings with the federal textile minister and...
Source Daily Times: Fauzia Wahab’s statement and the resultant reaction have exposed our religious-political confusion. Religion is a private matter...
Yesterday Jang group published an article in which they claimed that more fake tapes would soon be coming out against senior Jang group journalists...
