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The turnout controversy THE history of polling in Pakistan, including the recently held referendum, is marred with deep controversy. The losers refuse to accept polling results...		It’s the Indian mindset REMEMBER Garhmukhteshwar? A small town in the Meerut district of the then United Provinces? And the ghastly unprovoked aggression in it by Hindus against Muslims in November, 1946?...
Where East meets West AT the beginning of every new morning, the sun unveils its glowing elegance. Its golden carpet moves, from the East to the West, and back again. The nature itself does bear...		Periodic convulsions and cancellation of functions KARACHI has become a casualty of terrorism again. It has now become a periodic event, which makes the shutdown of major social events essential or wiser. In the past, such mourning...
Public relations in need of some PR! AFTER I had been in PIA a few months, Omar Ali Choudhary, brother of Mohammad Ali Bogra — no two peas in the same pod — wrote an article about me....		And miles to go before I sleep ... “Loot lay, loooooot lay!” an exhilarated, young voice floats through the air over the noise of the usual rush hour traffic, as I stop in its midst. The source is not...
Never give up hope THE accident took place on the night of April 13, 1990. The drive had begun as a pleasant outing for the two of them, as the car glided on the dark,...		Let the dust settle A ferocious storm and rains hit Lahore early this week. It took most arrangements for the evening, including a major event scheduled at Food Street, by storm. However, Lahore and its...
Peshawar’s changing façade I WAS rambling through the narrow lanes of old city of Peshawar with nostalgia. I was looking for the city where I was born and brought up. Though my sister-in-law was...		Subverting young minds IN 1980s, the Americans poured in mega bucks to glorify jihad in Afghanistan as it served their purpose and was required to drive out communism. Americans spent more than 50 million...
The Wisdom of Wayne Dyer SICK of cross-border cheap shots? Nauseated by referendum rigmarole? Tired hearing third-rate politicos rave and rant? Fretful of foreigners systematically ditch Pakistan citing terrorism as the cause? Angry about present junta’s...		When families stay united A home is a haven where family members provide support and security to the other members. The family unit in our society is built in a way to provide warmth to...
Never love a stranger THE company where I worked had to make an urgent payment to a supplier in Multan and I was chosen to deliver that money. Since the amount was big and the...		Roots of militarism EVERY society assigns certain functions to its military such as the defence of the nation in times of war, and appropriate training in times of peace. But when military crosses the...
CHAPTERS FROM HISTORY: Genesis of turmoil in Palestine TO understand the genesis of the on-going conflict in the Middle East where the Zionists are out to extend the borders of Israel, from the Gulf of Aquaba to parts of...		The origin and growth of Urdu AT the time in history when Mughal influence — literary, political and economic — was fading, and Western intrusions and military atrocities were rampant in the Indian subcontinent, Urdu poetry and...
POINT OF VIEW: Three cheers for Ajoka AJOKA Theatre has done something marvellous. It has already to its credit a number of good, thought-provoking plays. But this time, appearing on the stage of the Lahore Arts Council, it...		A quiet man with the deafening pause WHEN I sat down to talk to Steve Bucknor, it looked as if we were on the battlefront; the war correspondent etching out the colonel’s past. There was shattered glass on...
THROUGH THE COVERS: The experts and their chatter OF the Indian team’s psychological barrier to make it big outside of their geographical boundaries, I have written on a few occasions in the past. I have to thank the Indian...		Still in the quagmire ZARINA was working in a reputable hospital after the completion of her medical education when she got married....
News at nine IF a UFO crash-landed in the middle of White House Rose Garden tomorrow, this is how some of the major television networks will cover the event....		NEWSMAKER THE brutal murder of Hurriyat Conference leader Abdul Ghani Lone is yet another reminder of how multi-dimensional the Kashmir dispute has become in the last few years....