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The retreat of the liberals AGAINST the backdrop of American imperial designs in the Middle East and its aggression against Iraq with the most sophisticated technology of mass destruction, the peace demonstrations across the world have come as a ray of hope....		Civil society has been undermined THERE has been a serious concern in certain conscientious sections of society about the role that the liberal and democratic forces of the country have played over global and national issues in recent times....
The nightmare Have you ever had an experience of hearing a bunch of trapped witches shrieking for their freedom? I had that experience once....		Ageism is a harsh reality Ageism is the most prevalent ‘ism’ today in the labour market. Even gender discrimination against women is rarer than ageism. The discrimination is particularly faced by people over 50, most of...
Illegally yours The story of the six Pakistanis gunned down brutally in the Macedonian capital of Skopje by the local police last year, is soon going to gather enough dust to be lost...		NET-CLIP: Covering the war Those following the Iraq war in Pakistan, unfortunately, have no choice but to follow the war in Iraq through reports emanating from western sources. Most of the newspapers and media sources...
Shock(ing) & Awe(ful) WHILE there is little doubt that the US-led Allies will finally have their way in Iraq, it will be later rather than sooner, which, to say the least, is in contrast...		Television takes over By the middle of the sixties, the torch had passed to a new generation, in the borrowed but ennobling phrase of John F. Kennedy’s speech-writer. The Cold War raged. Kennedy himself...
A place called home IT was just another afternoon in Karachi. Humid and energy sapping. But we were standing on a stretch of a long road that didn’t belong to the usual Karachi afternoon....		Discovering Dipalpur Once the centre stage of many battles for centuries, Dipalpur is now a quite town situated on the banks of old River Beas in Bari-Doab region. It is famous as an...
The harsh truth about TB Tuberculosis is a disease you probably don’t think much about. It does not carry the same amount of gravity as it once did, and yet the World Health Organization ranks Pakistan sixth in the list of high disease burden countries...		Looking back on Stalin It is 50 years now since J.V. Stalin has been dead, a long enough period presumably for one to look back on the man and his historical role objectively....
CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: Gandhi and Muslim politics The Khilafat Movement (1918-24) had catapulted several forces and leaders onto the forefront of Muslim politics. Among them all, the ulama (as a group) and Gandhi proved to be more durable....		Another history of Urdu literature IT was the inaugural ceremony of Tabassum Kashmiri’s scholarly work Urdu Adab ki Tareekh, a history of Urdu literature published by Sang-i-Meel, Lahore....
Last man standing SOMEONE once said, most probably it was Winston Churchill, that nothing is officially confirmed until it is officially denied. Words of a brave man, something that our PCB Chairman, Lt General...		Preparing for the ultimate prize Pakistani hockey is on its way up. In fact, both the junior and the senior outfits have rediscovered their winning ways....
THROUGH THE COVERS: Time to invest in juniors WITH the World Cup now a distant memory, t is time to have a look at the world of cricket in the post-Cup period. For most countries, it is life as...		Reality bites in America Today, as clocks are moved forward by one hour to save daylight time, the tedium vitae of American vainglory would have forever altered life’s trajectory for many here....
A rackety non-event EVERY year, during the month of March, the people of Islamabad gear up to bear with girth, perseverance and fortitude the preparations that lead to Pakistan Day on March 23....		Taxing one’s patience PAYING taxes is never easy. It took me three trips, each consuming the best part of the working day to pay my vehicle tax. And that too with the help of...
NEWSMAKER OTHER than the kiwi, the only other thing that New Zealand is famous for is the disputed fact that sheep outnumber the human population of that Pacific nation....		Out with Blair WITH reference to the article Blair out, demand Londoners, March 23, 2003, the lines that captured my attention were, “Did you all see those bombs falling, on TV? All the poor...