By Omar Farooque,on May 17th,2013 By Sumera Khan ISLAMABAD: “For me,Mustafa is everywhere,he never left us. Our 7-year-old daughter Rameen is proud of her father’s martyrdom,” says Sadia Mustafa,widow of Major Mustafa Sabir,who embraced martyrdom last week during clashes with militants in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency among other 23 military personnel. Rameen talks . . . →Read More:The ongoing struggle in Tirah Valley By Maryam Rahman,on April 22nd,2013 by Jahanzaib Haque You’re rich,you’re privileged and high on democracy in an ultra-poor,ultra-conservative society! Are you ready to vote in the urban badlands of ol’Pakistan? . . . →Read More:Run forest Run. VOTE! By Tina McCloughy,on February 1st,2013 Hi. I’m Mariane Pearl,” she says,introducing herself to a room full of journalists from the world over attending a Reuters training course in Barcelona. At the course,I’m representing Pakistan – a country where her husband,Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl,was abducted and beheaded by terrorists. Where a pregnant Mariane spent the . . . →Read More:Mighty heart representing Pakistan By Ali Farhan,on January 14th,2013 Over 90 of us perished on January 10,2013. I don’t mean Pakistanis,I mean Shias. As much as it pains me to identify myself as something before a Pakistani,this state seems to have left us little choice. . . . →Read More:Let them slaughter us By Nathoo Ram,on January 2nd,2013 The girl wasn’t aware that the Udyog Bhavan Metro station in central Delhi had been shut down. In the Metro going to Gurgaon,she needed to get down at Udyog Bhavan. Her friend was waiting in a car outside the station. She waited at the door. The train stopped too,but the gates didn’t open. . . . →Read More:Distrust reverberating through silence in a metro By Nathoo Ram,on December 17th,2012 By Kamran Yousaf One of the 10 terrorists involved in Saturday night’s brazen attack on Peshawar airport had Western-style “tattoos” on his body,raising questions about the identities of those behind the assault. . . . →Read More:Tattoo on dead militant raises questions By Nida Afaque,on October 9th,2012 A series of unfortunate events have brought Pakistan to a position where it is in a continuous state of war. It is currently fighting off forces of economic slump,social dissatisfaction,political instability and an epidemic of local and foreign militants. The Pakistani government,people,and even foreign agencies can be seen . . . →Read More:Pakistan Police:Improving performance through legislative reforms By Tina McCloughy,on August 13th,2012 Islamophobia is mounting in the developed world,with a big contributing factor being ignorance. Without understanding the true religion,the West has wrongly formed an ignorant opinion of Islam,associated with terrorists who have no right to be called Muslims. . . . →Read More:Ignorance and Islamophobia By Zoon Ahmad Khan,on July 25th,2012 July 12th:According to ‘some’ international news agencies:500 villages torched,thousands killed by Buddhist mobs and the Burmese army. July 16th:The photos,all the evidence is out! July 17th:Somehow all of that makes Pakistanis are unpatriotic for not staying in the country. July 19th:Google images prove the photos were a . . . →Read More:Dealing with Burma:Reality versus Rumor By Nida Afaque,on July 2nd,2012 By Nida Afaque The long and short of the war in Afghanistan was to eliminate terrorists and reinstall social equality for the locals so that women can have a greater say,children can acquire education and the young Afghans can find a stable source of income. The decade long war has ripped Afghanistan limb from limb; . . . →Read More:ZoneAsia-Pk:Divorcing the Taliban | |
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