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FROM DAWN “An award winning American magazine Foreign Policy, has chosen Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal as second among the three best mayors in the world for the year 2008. The magazine has included the names of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Wang Hongju, Mayor of Chongqing as the other mayors of the moment, said…
On 30th October 1947 Qaid E Azam the founder of Pakistan and the greatest leader we have ever said the following on reaching Lahore where several brutal acts were committed against minorities. “We have, undoubtedly, achieved Pakistan and that too without bloody war and practically peacefully by moral and intellectual force and with the power…
Recently the Oxford youth business development organization held a contest for young entrepreneurs and their mentors in this region of the world to pick a business venture along the following criteria What is the ventures quality of business planning? I.e. have the team developed a focused and viable plan for implementation success What is the…
Finally the government is showing some signs of being alive in some form since the elections. Why is this so? well dear readers all 8 of you that is, we again stand at the brink of the famous cavern we keep visiting as a country the one called “doom”. Matter of fact we have been…
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 Ramla Akhtar The Divine Feminine Artist unknown Part 1: The Trouble in the Pakistani Family Construct Deserves De-Construction All right. Included henceforth in my life mission is to engage hearts on the subject of women. Rather, the Feminine Principle, but let’s, for ease of conversation, begin with women – as in the “sex: female”…
Hey guys, yeh you who are now in power? There is no one left to blame your shortcomings on anymore. So lets have it? The demand of the entire population of this country now is to bring back the original judiciary. Wonder how long they will take to achieve this one? Oh and by the…
The phone beeps – *Mushy’s being impeached..go put on geo..NOW*… Frantic flicking through channels, not knowing what to expect, and there sits Musharraf giving his last address. And after a while of listening to how,In the calmest possible tone, he points out, sector by sector, things have improved… how in each area, we drastically rose…
The second rain of the monsoon season just began in Karachi, and it is pouring down in all parts of the metropolis. Its early days yet as the denizens will have to wait a few hours before we know how and if we shall get home as is the case in a heavy downpour in…
When i was young, which was obviously a long time ago, as my daughter aptly puts it we used to start going quite mad at the 10th of August every year. Trips were made to the nearest flag station which if you are unaware means a makeshift stall setup on the side of the road…