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12 year old Mohammad Ahmed one of Dr Aafia Siddiqius children has been handed over to Pakistani embassy officials in Kabul. It is of note that when she was picked up in Karachi her sons were 7 and 5 years old respectively with her daughter being 8 months old. It is believed that the daughter…
Reports coming in that Pakistani soldiers have confronted U.S troops on the Pak /Afghan border near Angoorada and fired in the air to dissuade them from coming across to Pakistan. Reports say seven US helicopters landed on the Afghan side of the border and US troops then tried to cross the border. As the U.S…
Pakistan has of late been a hotbed for discussion on all forms of political matters, ranging from Restoration of judges to the impeachment/ resignation of the president to breakup of the coalition to finally the election of a new Democratic President. Amidst all this hullabaloo and fiery discussions in current affair programs on television and…
Remember Prom in high school? The build up to the dance, the planning, the people who actually made it happen, rather than who won. Of course, we all remember who was Queen or King, but it’s the other drama that is more memorable, rather than those 10 minutes of fame. Let me be the first…
At 0700 GMT on Saturday, the “very large” hurricane was about 10 miles (15km) south-east of Galveston, with winds of around 110 mph (175km/h). Thats Galveston texas for you folks, this hurricane is going to make landfall within hours and is as advertised going to be pretty damn catastrophic. Most of the major area hit…
Balancing a guitar, the coke bottle, and themselves… … trying not to trip over the rocks, trying to steady nature to suit their unsteadiness. “yeh shaam phir nahin aai gi…â€, voices lilted, wobbled, and carried in the wind, fading out slowing over the moonlit ocean. The waves splashed the rocks gently, and the fine mist…
By Arundhati Roy in The Guardian, August 22 Kashmir is in crisis: the region’s Muslims are mounting huge non-violent protests against the Indian government’s rule. But, asks Arundhati Roy, what would independence for the territory mean for its people? For the past 60 days or so, since about the end of June, the people of…
Whenever I hear this guy speak man, it makes me wish again and again we had a leader this genuine!!
Like many other Pakistani’s,  I have acquired an aversion to the Tv screen altogather. I remember when I was younger,, much younger and at that time the entire country would look forward to the nightly news as that would be the only source of info on what’s going on. These days the information provided to…
WASHINGTON: A veteran Pakistani journalist, Nayyar Zaidi, has been charged with attempted child molestation in the United States. While Zaidi insists that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has framed him, press reports published in Ohio newspapers, the state where he is in prison since March 20, say that he was arrested in Jackson Township,…