THE woman on the aisle seat, my neighbour on the British Airways flight, could have been any agreeable white American tourist exuding affection for India.
That she turned out to be a dyed-in-the-wool Republican made her a more interesting companion…
To support the relief efforts in Pakistan, Etihad Airways staff members have donated funds to the Emirates International Mobile Humanitarian Hospital (EIMHH) based in Pakistan, enabling them to purchase new cardiac monitors and paediatric medication. The staff’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative…
By Nasira Parveen
Leo Tolstoy, by Tennyson Samraj
LAST WEEK a bloger friend came to inform me that I must visit her house along with my family members on the occasion of Christmas. In a time when our own Muslim…
Observers and experts say that mob violence and police brutality in blasphemy cases are followed up by sluggish courts, subjecting the accused to long periods in jail, high legal costs and repeated court appearances.…
SAARC Business Association for Home based workers (Sabah Pakistan) held its first Annual General Meeting in Islamabad. The meeting was attended by a wide section of the society including Mr. Hasan Wazir (Director SAARC)-Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Mr. Mustafain…
As 2010 comes to a close, we look back at Granta 112. The issue showcases a wide variety of Pakistani literary and artistic talent, and says a lot about the hurt pervasive in Pakistan today.…
Adil Najam
In another year that has been tough for Pakistan and particularly tough for minorities in Pakistan, another Christmas] approaches. And like Christmases all over the world, Christians in Pakistan prepare to celebrate in their own ways.
In churches…
Celebrating Quaid-e-Azam birthday in a way the great leader really wished. We invite you all to join hands for a noble cause of Thalassaemia Free Campaign by Donating your Time, Resources, Blood and donations, thus bringing a change in everyone’s…
Photo Editor is now the World’s #1 Best Selling BlackBerry Application across all categories. And it’s made in Pakistan! Yes another achievement from Pakistanis, this news was first break by TechLahore Blog few days before. Pakistan’s IT industry is growing very…
THE strategic defeat of Al Qaeda “requires the sustained denial of the group’s safe haven in the tribal areas of Western Pakistan” states the unclassified summary of the Obama administration’s review of the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict.
This lament, which pins the…
AS I write this, I am constantly distracted by the vista outside my window: there’s a blanket of snow on the road, and a heavy white cover on the branches that obscure my view of the 19th century castle that…
IT is not unreasonable to wonder whether a different set of government policies could have averted the catastrophe that unfolded last week on the coast of a remote Australian territory, in which at least 50 asylum-seekers are believed to have…
In these times of turmoil and unrest, chatter in support of dictatorial regimes can once again be heard in wide sections of the public. The restless populace can be heard reminiscing about the “good old days” of Musharraf. Meanwhile, there…
Have we entered the endgame in Afghanistan? Not if we take into account Lisbon’s NATO-Afghanistan Joint Declaration, the National Intelligence Estimates on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and now Obama’s AfPak Strategy Review. It is in fact the beginning of the “Long…
The US ex-ambassador to Pakistan should be lauded for dutifully and patriotically watching the interests of her country. She served the US to the best of her ability. At times she worked more as an intelligence agent than an ambassador.…
