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Illegal occupation, abusive policies A US Navy lieutenant and leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, in a testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971, recorded the following statement: “I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and...		US credibility has been hurt THE recent images flashed by the media of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to brutal torture at the hands of occupational forces have evoked a strong wave of protest and uproar from the Muslim world. Over time, the reports have hurt America’s credibility...
Adam on the run SCARED and terrified, Adam leaped out of the balcony of his apartment on the second floor of Abode Towers. He did not hit the hard pavement beneath. He landed on a heap of butchered men, women and children lying on the footpath. The dead gave him a cushioned landing. He escaped injuries. Shocked, he looked round....		A grand affair FEW weeks ago, the great great grand-father of a very prominent business clan passed away. The family marked the occasion with a grand affair....
Retired, not retarded RETIREMENT is inevitable. It is as sure as death. Every employee has to retire after serving up to a certain period of time, normally after attaining the age of superannuation....		Death of a doctor I’VE always believed that death should involve no suffering. But then, I guess everyone wants it that way as nobody wants to die in pain. I recently went through a minor...
Remembering the Battle of Banagh MOHAMMAD Sharif Jamali, a resident of Nasir Khan Jamali village in Osta Mohammad tehsil of Jaffarabad district is an institution. Not only is he familiar with the history of his tribe, he unmistakably recalls the conflicts and...		United states of Europe ON May 1, nearly 450 million people of this planet were having a great big party. No it wasn’t on great grand MTV Grind (though that would have been fun). Rather...
Reflections from the UAE DURING the later half of the last century, a number of politico-economic novelties have emerged in the world. UAE is one and a unique one at that....		A glimpse into their world THEY walk. They talk. They See. But they walk in the streets of their own world, talk with a person invisible to all others and their sight is of their own imagination and making....
The survivor of Michni Post A PICK-up, fully loaded with the local security forces i.e. Khasadars, sped through the maze of Khyber Pass escorting us to the Pak-Afghan border at Torkham. And with them, our...		Karma in a teacup IF happiness and content were to come in tangible form, then surely they would have come into the form of a steaming and tantalizing cup of tea. A cup of tea is a familiar and yet a peculiar thing. It’s a curious blend of leaves strained in boiling water...
The Civil War “TOMORROW is another day ...” declared the wilful Scarlet O’Hara, the mistress of Tara, in Gone With the Wind. But yesterday is the day that remains permanently seared into the memory...		Ajoka revisited TWENTY years is a long period, particularly in our times when things everywhere and at every level are changing with a rapidity hardly conceivable in the past. So, when Madiha Gauhar...
Hot Seat AFTER an exhausting day at the hospital, Dr Shaista Effendi relaxes by listening to light music. Although her taste in music is varied so that she enjoys Frank Sinatra just as...		Promoting a faulty product TIMES of crisis separate the perceptive from the desperate and the visionaries from the ill-advised. Even the most judicious of marketers and warriors have eventually fallen on their gimmicks and swords when they have been short of ideas....
A beautiful friendship IN King Arthur’s Camelot, Keith Miller would almost certainly have been a knight, if not Sir Galahad. Chivalry is a word that comes to mind when I think of one of...		Another record bites the dust THE pace at which major world records are being smashed is amazing, both in terms of batting and bowling. Muttiah Muralitharan’s latest feat is the continuation of that process. Courtney Walsh,...
The pictures are the story GRAPHICALLY exposed to images of dehumanization of fellow-beings, the brain savaged with stories despicable, how then does every nerve celled in your body react? Are you sick, nauseated and disgusted at the sight of someone repeatedly denuded...		Of fears and beliefs SUPERSTITIONS are passed on from generation to generation and from one place to another on mere verbal transmission. Even in this modern age, people are prone to irrational fears of birds, reptiles, days of the week, numbers...
Lost vendors of Lahore LAHORE has grown from sober to intellectual to zinda-dillan. But for one old lady, it is nostalgic to reminiscence of the days gone by. At the time of Partition, Lahore had...		Two uncles and a nephew WITH reference to Intizar Husain’s piece, Two uncles and a nephew (May 9), it is not only misleading but also factually incorrect. I have made no mention of my uncle, Taaban...
MOSAIC: Doyle’s papers sold THOUSANDS of personal papers belonging to Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fetched $1.7 million at an auction, last week, with many items sold to private US collectors....		Newsmaker First came the shock results and with it the shocking prospect of India cradling its first Roman Catholic Prime Minister. Stock markets tumbled and the business community shuddered over the thought of a Communist supported...