Category: Personal Political
JULY 28, 2010 was a bad day for Pakistan. That morning, heavy rains led to a private airline plane crashing into the Margalla hills near Islamabad, killing all 152 on board.
"Achcha, yahan bhi constitutional amendments chal rahe hain," observed a friend, scanning headlines in The Daily Star as we waited at Dhaka International Airport for a much-delayed flight
India-Pakistan relations have Nazo Reshi vacillating between hope and despair. Hailing from Srinagar, she is married to a Pakistani and lives in Islamabad.
"What would you do if they banned facebook here?" I asked Zainab, 13, whose parents, old friends from Pakistan, are posted in Delhi.
On April 19, there were two bomb blasts in the heart of Peshawar - a low-intensity one outside a police-run school, as parents were picking up children, that killed a small boy, followed hours late
One thing is for sure. Life is never dull in Pakistan.
“Jihad,” said Adnan Sabzwari, the young scientist, “is not strapping yourself with a suicide vest and blowing up people, but making life better for the hungry and the poor”
Out on a fishing boat under a clear blue early morning sky to go dolphin watching, the violence, squabbles and tensions that mark daily life fade into irrelevance - including the recent tensions ar
Karachi, December 25, 2009: Writing this on Christmas day, two words come to mind: 'morality' and 'terrorism'.
I totally agree with the writer that substandard medicines are flooding our markets. I myself have had a harrowing experience when I bought a...
Indian people should now try to find out the truth about what has actually been happening in Kashmir. What else does anyone expect from Kashmiris...
This article has invoked memories from the 90s. I remember being taken for the identification parades by the army, being made to sit on the road...
Amit was one year my senior in Economics at JNU. His batch is one of the more illustrious one from those times at JNU. Sitaram Yechuri, needs no...