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The game has just begun If Pakistan and India are to tread the path of durable friendship, the two peoples will have to work together to build peace through consensus and democracy, with a clear understanding...		We need a people’s movement ‘Two things thrive on conflict between India and Pakistan: religious fundamentalism and the military. If this conflict is removed, it will be easier to build a liberal democratic process in our...
Sindh and Sindhis IT is generally lamented that the Sindhis in Sindh are living a miserable life. Part-time and full-time politicians have cried themselves hoarse in telling the world, if things did not improve...		Managing car thefts ACCORDING to a news report, last year 3,798 two-wheelers were snatched or stolen in Karachi alone. The city seems to be a favourite place of vehicle-snatchers. No matter how hard-earned your...
Foreign gifts Every summer, when the Sun cranks up the heat and the mangoes invade our dinning tables, there is also the excitement of having your uncle visit you from the US. Of...		Green gold of Sindh Along waterworks and canals, trees that once worked as natural filters for seepage, are being cut ruthlessly, here was a time when along the Bawne-Khipro Cana...
The forgotten reverse of the Raj Chillianwala is not a new name for any serious student of colonial history in India. Taking the westward road from Kharian, one crosses the small town of Dinga to reach the...		The nights of Cairo As darkness falls over the Egyptian capital, the city turns into one big fun place, “Welcome to Cairo” was the immediate answer from Ahmed, a driver from my host organization in the Egyptian capital...
Spotlight Bari Imam Overlooking the Prime Minister House, the shrine of Hazrat Syed Abdul Latif Shah Kazmi, popularly known as Hazrat Bari Imam is a tourist spot in the tour guide’s list. Every year...		When protectors become killers Recent news of killings of minors at the hands of their fathers have raised a lot of questions about the way our society functions...
Hot Seat There was a time when the world of cricket was ruled by wicket-keepers. And there were a number of them. Rod Marsh, Wordsworth, Alan Knott and of course our very own,...		A multi-faceted poet THE first great schism in Christianity took place in 1054 when eastern orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism parted their ways...
Understanding Ghalib DR Mubashar Hasan’s study of Ghalib came as a pleasant surprise to me. Hastily I attached a motive to it. And I had some justification for it too. After all,...		A controversial sufi martyr THE chant of Anal-Haq, Anal-Haq (I’m the Truth) was his very own. He kept repeating it, and the people thought either he had gone mad or was committing blasphemy. “He should...
Rewriting Caribbean history Pakistan has continued its Indian high in the warm tropical climates of the West Indies, DEFEATING the present West Indies side has become something of a ritual...		Time for the main course Pakistan having wrapped up the three-match One-Day series in the West Indies, the focus must surely now be on the main course which is in progress with the start of the...
Nothing but gold THE national team has already left for Malaysia any by the time you get to read these lines, the Azlan Shah Cup would have already gone under way. Even though the...		Sheep wearing a wolf’s clothing AS I sat in front of television watching the One Day encounters between Pakistan and the West Indies, my mind raced back to the times when facing the West Indian pace...
Life after death DO you believe in life after death? I do. Surrounded by death, sweet death, the scent of spring exploding all over me and its fulgurous colours interfacing...		Health Interactive Q - My wife has developed DLE. Is this a skin disease and is it life threatening? Can this be cured? A - Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE) is an autoimmune disease...